
The answer most sincerely being those three little words so troubling to the minds of men: “I don't know.”
See, when I was a little ankle-biting, rock-tossing dirt-kicker in the
backwoods of Bumpass, Virginia, I often dreamed of what I might accomplish.
Write a book,
make a film
(any), perhaps, design a video game,
or even produce my own little short
weird televised program, drawing inspiration from Wayne’s World, where I would
just sit, talk and B.S. for five to ten minutes.
But, I tell ya, that last one was even way too far-fetched for a
big dreamer as my younger self.
The funny thing is what happens when you do do all the things
you set out to do. And not only that but
those things you'd scarcely could have even imagined
(such as, and I'm just spitballing here, but a virtual museum, perhaps?).
To say nothing, a whole body of
creative works and countless other things, other folk wished they'd had even tried.
I mean that is to say except for the very last thing you ever set out to do, obviously (such as make a comic book). I mean, seriously, do you really wanna tempt fate and do the last thing on your bucket list?!
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And when it's all said and done, you’re just kinda sitting there questioning your accomplishments. Your mind spilling over with doubt like, "Sure you may very well be a historically unprecedented polymath, but without an HVAC certification does anyone really give a hoot?!"
That is until you realize. That you’re younger self never let you down by not dreaming big enough,
but rather your older self has let your younger self down by keeping you from continuing to dream.
That there were the dreams that you thought were impossible, but there are also now
the things that your brain is now big enough for you to dream and yet make possible!
So, I guess what I'm saying is, no, you can never dream big enough.
And it is never too late to dream. But more importantly, never don’t you ever stop dreaming for, good reader, that is what real success looks like.
So, here's to you, here's to me, here's to us, let's keep on dreaming.
Cheers to Twenty More Years!
Lenwood S. Sharpe, Director
Lumberwoods, Unnatural History Museum
Parts Unknown, The Woods, U.S.A.
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