I can remember that the crowd was much larger than what I had been expecting, but I can't recall that much about who all was in that crowd, except for the fact that it was made up of mostly young people in their mid to late teens with a few adults scattered around. I can't even tell you where I was, although it was a large complex that held a fairly good size audience. I guess the strangest part about this entire dream is that most of it is so foggy in my mind, yet I can remember in vivid detail much of what I said as I spoke that evening. There have been times when I've dreamed that I was singing songs that I had written, but when I awoke the next morning I couldn't sing even one line of any of them. That's why I find it so unusual that I can remember much of the speech that I made in that dream last night. Now before I go any farther, let me say that I'm not the type of person that likes to hear every little detail of someone else's dream, so I'm reluctant to tell you about mine. It's just that I like what I had to say in this particular dream. I can also remember that I was very passionate about what I said to that young audience.
Here it is: "Wow! Where did you all come from? I wasn't expecting nearly this many people, but I must also say that I'm glad you're here. Believe me, I've been where you are, and I know what you're probably thinking right about now...you're dreading this part of the evening because you're about to have to sit through a long, boring speech. Well, let me put your mind at ease. Just look at me. I have no podium, and the only thing I have in my hand is a microphone. No notes. So trust me...this won't take long. Like I just told you, I've been where you are, and I can still remember a promise I made to myself those many years ago. Yes, I was talking to myself, and here's what I said: 'I will not allow myself to become just a common, average, run-of-the-mill kind of guy. I refuse to be ordinary!' When I made myself that promise, I didn't mean that I wanted to be odd or weird...I meant that I wanted to be more than average...above the ordinary. However much time the average kid spent studying, I was gonna study just a little bit longer. No matter how hard the average guy worked, I would work just a little bit harder. I was well aware that I could get by without putting forth that extra effort, and I also knew that our government would not let anyone starve. But I had also figured out that if I decided to just live off the system, I would never amount to much of anything. After growing up in a home where my parents always made sure I had a roof over my head, food in my stomach, and an education in my brain, I found it difficult to face the fact that if I was going to make a success of my life, I was going to have to do it all on my own. That was something Mom and Dad could not do for me. Whatever you may think about Sarah Palin (I happen to admire the lady), you should take note of a post she placed on her facebook page just last night. She was telling about a time last year when it was time for the salmon to be headed up stream in the Alaska rivers, so she went with her family to watch as the brown bears headed to the river to rake in their harvest. She said that one thing that really stood out to her was how the mother bears would catch fish for themselves and their cubs, but if any of the other grizzlies in the area wanted to eat, they had to catch their own fish. Well, ladies and gentlemen, we are all just like those bears. If there's gold buried in your back yard, and you decide to sit and wait until someone brings you a shovel so you can dig, you may be waiting a very long time. I hope you understand the point I'm trying to make. I'm smart enough to know that not all of you will heed what I have to say this evening, so I'm mainly directing my words to those of you who will get the message. There are some words of wisdom that I've heard all my life that say, 'The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.' Right now some of you are probably making the same promise to yourselves that I made to myself those many years ago, but don't ever forget that it takes more than just a promise...it must be a promise fulfilled. And that takes action. Now go do it! Thank you!"
Those words may not be verbatim to the way they were in my dream, but that's the basic speech I gave. I'm not sure what qualified me to make that kind of speech, but I wouldn't have minded hearing something like that when I was a teenager.
Okay, I promise that next week I won't be going into detail about one of my dreams. I just felt like that one was one I wanted to share.
Preston
Here it is: "Wow! Where did you all come from? I wasn't expecting nearly this many people, but I must also say that I'm glad you're here. Believe me, I've been where you are, and I know what you're probably thinking right about now...you're dreading this part of the evening because you're about to have to sit through a long, boring speech. Well, let me put your mind at ease. Just look at me. I have no podium, and the only thing I have in my hand is a microphone. No notes. So trust me...this won't take long. Like I just told you, I've been where you are, and I can still remember a promise I made to myself those many years ago. Yes, I was talking to myself, and here's what I said: 'I will not allow myself to become just a common, average, run-of-the-mill kind of guy. I refuse to be ordinary!' When I made myself that promise, I didn't mean that I wanted to be odd or weird...I meant that I wanted to be more than average...above the ordinary. However much time the average kid spent studying, I was gonna study just a little bit longer. No matter how hard the average guy worked, I would work just a little bit harder. I was well aware that I could get by without putting forth that extra effort, and I also knew that our government would not let anyone starve. But I had also figured out that if I decided to just live off the system, I would never amount to much of anything. After growing up in a home where my parents always made sure I had a roof over my head, food in my stomach, and an education in my brain, I found it difficult to face the fact that if I was going to make a success of my life, I was going to have to do it all on my own. That was something Mom and Dad could not do for me. Whatever you may think about Sarah Palin (I happen to admire the lady), you should take note of a post she placed on her facebook page just last night. She was telling about a time last year when it was time for the salmon to be headed up stream in the Alaska rivers, so she went with her family to watch as the brown bears headed to the river to rake in their harvest. She said that one thing that really stood out to her was how the mother bears would catch fish for themselves and their cubs, but if any of the other grizzlies in the area wanted to eat, they had to catch their own fish. Well, ladies and gentlemen, we are all just like those bears. If there's gold buried in your back yard, and you decide to sit and wait until someone brings you a shovel so you can dig, you may be waiting a very long time. I hope you understand the point I'm trying to make. I'm smart enough to know that not all of you will heed what I have to say this evening, so I'm mainly directing my words to those of you who will get the message. There are some words of wisdom that I've heard all my life that say, 'The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.' Right now some of you are probably making the same promise to yourselves that I made to myself those many years ago, but don't ever forget that it takes more than just a promise...it must be a promise fulfilled. And that takes action. Now go do it! Thank you!"
Those words may not be verbatim to the way they were in my dream, but that's the basic speech I gave. I'm not sure what qualified me to make that kind of speech, but I wouldn't have minded hearing something like that when I was a teenager.
Okay, I promise that next week I won't be going into detail about one of my dreams. I just felt like that one was one I wanted to share.
Preston
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