The older we get, the more time seems to get away from us.
If you remember when you were young, time went sooooo slowly. Summers were forever, getting to Christmas was such an unbearably long time and it seemed as if you would never grow up. We always wanted to be older than we were.
Now, time and our lives seem to whiz at nanospeed. We look up dreading Mondays and then wonder where the week went when Friday rolls around. We reach our birthday and wonder what we did with that year of our life that just passed and is behind us.
In January of 2010, I decided to run for Texas House of Representatives, District 84. A very special friend placed that seed in my mind. I ruminated on the idea for a while because I had the PERFECT life–a thriving business, time to write, time to speak to groups about careers, education and life. But the nagging thought occurred to me–I would always wonder what might have happened if I took this risk. I hated the thought that I might be sitting in a rocking chair and wondered what might have been.
Think about this: Who are the people that you’ve admired in your life? It might be an ordinary person that you know–someone in your neighborhood or an acquaintance at church. It might be someone famous like Joan of Arc, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King, or Nelson Mandala–those historical giants that have left a great legacy with their work and efforts. Each and every one of those individuals was JUST LIKE YOU AT SOME POINT in their lives. They were young and had big dreams of something, a passion, that they wanted to accomplish. They each could have allowed jobs, family, health, aging parents, setbacks, or money problems to derail the creation and development of their vision. But, they didn’t–they moved through life with passionate determination.
What makes them different from you? They had the determination to accomplish something that was so important and so overriding to all their personal life issues that they persisted and as a result, were successful.
Each one of us is the same as these famous people. We all have the potential to be great. We all have the qualities deep within us to accomplish our most cherished dreams.
All it takes is the FUEL of determination to propel us to that treasured destination.
Success or Failure–I hope that my campaign will be a lesson to every person, young and not so young, to take a risk without fear and face it head on with determination.
