Dream Pusher

Let me start with a disclaimer as my next statement is in no way a negative, just a different view. For many of us raised in working class families the goal for us as their children was of course to do better, but doing better meant getting a job. We were taught to do well, go to school and hopefully you will accomplish things we did not. I will not discuss my shortcomings with that last statement, honestly because I've finally made peace with my "failures" or the perception of them just because I realize my focus has been all wrong. With that revelation I find that my role in my own daughter's goals are to work hard for her, to nuture her dreams, helping her put them into play. No, I don't have her talent, but I support it. My mother always recognized that I could write, but it has not been until this past year that she began to ask so how is the book coming along? I get that paying the bills is a huge priority, but I now understand that if chasing my dreams had been a household topic that success would have followed. (It's not too late, I'm working on my dreams) My new hope for my daughter is not only that she does way better in life than me, but more importantly that she does not waste her life just working a J.O.B., but instead that she work everyday at making all of her dreams come true.