http://www.metroi4news.com/2009/11/a-job-in-the-desert/ Highlighting the News from Florida's Central Corridor Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:47:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.metroi4news.com/2009/11/a-job-in-the-desert/comment-page-1/#comment-1351 Gordon Craig Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:56:14 +0000 http://www.metroi4news.com/?p=3714#comment-1351 I know what they were thinking, "what the ........?!!"  where the ..... are we going?  Isn't that the same dune we climbed up a few hours ago?  Our footprints are still there!!  Hey, I think we need a new leader!!"  But seriously, what you have written, Chris, is so very true.  Unfortunately, so many of us only learn these lessons AFTER we have retired, at the end of the trail, rather than at the beginning.  I myself, wanted to be a crocadile hunter.  I throw that out not so much to be rediculous, but to point out the very point Chris is trying to make.  To think what it is you really want to do, no matter how dumb or rediculous or unrealistic, to consider your strengths and weaknesses,  the resources around you to build upon, and what it would take to achieve it, and then pursue that dream,no matter how unrealistic, how difficult it may seem.   If you're willing to work to acheive it,  anything is possible.  Who'd have ever thunk, 2 years ago, that a young, new, relatively inexperienced politician black man with a name like Hussein would/could ever become the President of the United States?!!  Surely not Hillary!!  But anything is possible, no matter what the dream, if you work hard to achieve it.  Personally, even though I know no one will ever pay to hear me sing, I have a strong desire to learn how to sing, even at my age, in spite of those around me who may cringe at the sounds of me trying to sing.  But not to be denied, I've decided to learn how to sing, to take lessons.  And the first lesson I've learned?  That anyone can learn to sing, it's not a god given gift (well, maybe for someone like Josh Grobin it is) but when one is willing to do what ever it takes to follow their passion and their dream, they can achieve it. Gordon Craig I know what they were thinking, “what the ……..?!!”  where the ….. are we going?  Isn’t that the same dune we climbed up a few hours ago?  Our footprints are still there!!  Hey, I think we need a new leader!!”  But seriously, what you have written, Chris, is so very true.  Unfortunately, so many of us only learn these lessons AFTER we have retired, at the end of the trail, rather than at the beginning.  I myself, wanted to be a crocadile hunter.  I throw that out not so much to be rediculous, but to point out the very point Chris is trying to make.  To think what it is you really want to do, no matter how dumb or rediculous or unrealistic, to consider your strengths and weaknesses,  the resources around you to build upon, and what it would take to achieve it, and then pursue that dream,no matter how unrealistic, how difficult it may seem.   If you’re willing to work to acheive it,  anything is possible.  Who’d have ever thunk, 2 years ago, that a young, new, relatively inexperienced politician black man with a name like Hussein would/could ever become the President of the United States?!!  Surely not Hillary!!  But anything is possible, no matter what the dream, if you work hard to achieve it.  Personally, even though I know no one will ever pay to hear me sing, I have a strong desire to learn how to sing, even at my age, in spite of those around me who may cringe at the sounds of me trying to sing.  But not to be denied, I’ve decided to learn how to sing, to take lessons.  And the first lesson I’ve learned?  That anyone can learn to sing, it’s not a god given gift (well, maybe for someone like Josh Grobin it is) but when one is willing to do what ever it takes to follow their passion and their dream, they can achieve it.
Gordon Craig

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