Dreams + Faith = Beautiful Journey

2.1oam, 5th Oct 2oo9
Malaysia

Having a big dream is exciting. You treasure your dream, make plans on how to get to it, work hard to implement the plans. The dream consumes you.

But when the dream starts to rule your life, you start missing on things: you live in the future, so things happening in today’s world don’t mean anything to you. That’s why today, I thought it’s about time to balance all this talk about dreams, doing more, and making things happen a bit and make a short trip back in time – from tomorrow back to today.

More than anything, this is a reminder to myself not to let my dreams become the only reality – because that would mean losing my life. It’s the journey that matters, not the destination! It is the journey that matters most because the destination may always be changing. Life is really just one big journey with many crossroads along the way... There are times, now and then, when it is quite beneficial to just stop, look around at the beauty in our lives and celebrate how far we have travelled.

Now is one of those moments... These are some 'scary times' we all now live in. You can be full of fear, insecurity and doubt OR you can choose a different path. A path which will help you move forward on your journey successfully and one where you will find yourself looking back later only to realize you came through it all, feeling, thinking and doing, 'better' than ever before.

I am now at the crossroad. At this crossroad, let's take a moment out, be still, take a deep breath, look around at the beauty in our lives, feel gratitude for all we do have and know in our hearts, I will be okay. ;) Enjoy this quiet, peaceful, resting place. We all deserve a break once in a while. So go ahead.... allow yourself this one. I took a detour.

Make stops whenever you need and make detours if you think you have to. Bottom line is, the journey is for us to enjoy. Don’t make it a burden.

Eleanor Roosevelt: "He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all."