"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined." ... Thoreau.
What does it mean to live your life as you have imagined? Do you go by what you imagined as a child or do live your life the way you have imagined but according to the rules of society? When I was 12 I planned my life out completely, and I even updated it at 17. Is my life the way I imagined? Not in the least, but does that mean I am not happy with how it is turning out, absolutely not. I believe everyone should start out following their dreams but as you grow and learn, as reality hits and you become an adult those dreams may shift some or even change completely, sometimes they are even forgotten or lost in the midst of surviving. When I planned my life, I knew nothing of God. Now I am a christian, I pray and converse with the Lord daily, I read my bible, although not as often as I should. We are told by preachers and ministers that God has a plan for our lives and that we need only to follow him. I believe this to an extent. I also believe that we have the power to alter our paths for either good or bad because after all we are human and we have the ability to sin so our paths are never straight and easy to follow or understand. Take me for instance, we are living in my parents home, we can't afford to pay rent, utilities, we barely make enough to cover our gas and groceries. Do I believe this is the path God wanted us to take? Not really, I believe he wants only the best for us so why are we in this spot? I don't have an answer to that....I would be given 30 lashes by my best friends if I said he was punishing us. What it boils down to is what you believe. You can choose to believe that God put you here in this moment to learn from it, you can choose that maybe you were following the right path but somehow made a bad choice and it gave you a detour for a while that God will help you maneuver through or you can go against all conventional thought and say you ticked him off by not following him as closely as you should have and now he is punishing you. So if I become a better follower and try to improve my relationship will that give me rewards? Absolutely but not because he is rewarding you for bad behavior, instead he will reward you for growing closer to him. Either way by having a closer relationship with the Lord you are the one that will benefit the most.
Wow, so I got off on a tangent there.....didn't realize I had all that in there!!! So what in the world could I have imagined for my life at 12 years old??? Well I was a veterinarian with an old farmhouse in the middle of no-where. I was married to a gorgeous hunk of a man who also happened to be a vet and we had 3 boys and 1 little girl. We were maniacally happy, we had tons of animals and while we weren't filthy rich, we were comfortable. So how could I have changed that at 17? Well at that point I got rid of all the kids but 1 and I got rid of the husband and went with a sperm bank. I also increased the income and put our home closer to town so that we had the peace and quiet of the country but the convenience of town. Isn't funny how our perspectives will change depending on what we go through? If I had to update it to match what I believe now.....I would be curator of a great zoo instead of a vet, I would have the gorgeous hunk of a husband but he would do something totally different than me for a career. We would still have probably 2 or 3 kids and we would be more than just relatively comfortable income- wise. We would probably still have some acreage but live close to town and we would definitely have animals but enough money to hire someone to clean up after them most of the time. I would also want to travel at least once or twice a year. There are tons of places I would love to have the opportunity to visit.
So in conclusion I guess this post really went just about everywhere which isn't surprising if you know me and the way I think. My husband teases me about it all of the time. He hates listening to me and my friend Heather talking because we will start talking about something then move to another subject then talk about something completely off the wall then end up back on our original subject without missing a beat or confusing ourselves in any way! School is getting ready to start back up for me but I took the easy way out this semester and didn't load myself down with difficult classes so maybe I will be able to find more time to post. I am also thinking about taking up the fiction again so those of you who enjoyed my last fictional post, maybe I will finally finish the story!!!
Leave me a comment, let me know what you think and never stop using your imagination!!
What does it mean to live your life as you have imagined? Do you go by what you imagined as a child or do live your life the way you have imagined but according to the rules of society? When I was 12 I planned my life out completely, and I even updated it at 17. Is my life the way I imagined? Not in the least, but does that mean I am not happy with how it is turning out, absolutely not. I believe everyone should start out following their dreams but as you grow and learn, as reality hits and you become an adult those dreams may shift some or even change completely, sometimes they are even forgotten or lost in the midst of surviving. When I planned my life, I knew nothing of God. Now I am a christian, I pray and converse with the Lord daily, I read my bible, although not as often as I should. We are told by preachers and ministers that God has a plan for our lives and that we need only to follow him. I believe this to an extent. I also believe that we have the power to alter our paths for either good or bad because after all we are human and we have the ability to sin so our paths are never straight and easy to follow or understand. Take me for instance, we are living in my parents home, we can't afford to pay rent, utilities, we barely make enough to cover our gas and groceries. Do I believe this is the path God wanted us to take? Not really, I believe he wants only the best for us so why are we in this spot? I don't have an answer to that....I would be given 30 lashes by my best friends if I said he was punishing us. What it boils down to is what you believe. You can choose to believe that God put you here in this moment to learn from it, you can choose that maybe you were following the right path but somehow made a bad choice and it gave you a detour for a while that God will help you maneuver through or you can go against all conventional thought and say you ticked him off by not following him as closely as you should have and now he is punishing you. So if I become a better follower and try to improve my relationship will that give me rewards? Absolutely but not because he is rewarding you for bad behavior, instead he will reward you for growing closer to him. Either way by having a closer relationship with the Lord you are the one that will benefit the most.
Wow, so I got off on a tangent there.....didn't realize I had all that in there!!! So what in the world could I have imagined for my life at 12 years old??? Well I was a veterinarian with an old farmhouse in the middle of no-where. I was married to a gorgeous hunk of a man who also happened to be a vet and we had 3 boys and 1 little girl. We were maniacally happy, we had tons of animals and while we weren't filthy rich, we were comfortable. So how could I have changed that at 17? Well at that point I got rid of all the kids but 1 and I got rid of the husband and went with a sperm bank. I also increased the income and put our home closer to town so that we had the peace and quiet of the country but the convenience of town. Isn't funny how our perspectives will change depending on what we go through? If I had to update it to match what I believe now.....I would be curator of a great zoo instead of a vet, I would have the gorgeous hunk of a husband but he would do something totally different than me for a career. We would still have probably 2 or 3 kids and we would be more than just relatively comfortable income- wise. We would probably still have some acreage but live close to town and we would definitely have animals but enough money to hire someone to clean up after them most of the time. I would also want to travel at least once or twice a year. There are tons of places I would love to have the opportunity to visit.
So in conclusion I guess this post really went just about everywhere which isn't surprising if you know me and the way I think. My husband teases me about it all of the time. He hates listening to me and my friend Heather talking because we will start talking about something then move to another subject then talk about something completely off the wall then end up back on our original subject without missing a beat or confusing ourselves in any way! School is getting ready to start back up for me but I took the easy way out this semester and didn't load myself down with difficult classes so maybe I will be able to find more time to post. I am also thinking about taking up the fiction again so those of you who enjoyed my last fictional post, maybe I will finally finish the story!!!
Leave me a comment, let me know what you think and never stop using your imagination!!
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