i was paying my phone bill today and i noticed at the top it said “valued customer since x/x/20xx”.
i remember that day. i was living San Diego, having graduated from UCSD a few months before. i walked into that phone shop and said i was moving to NYC by the end of the year so how would that work with area codes, blah blah blah. the thing was, moving to NYC was a secret dream at that point, but when i said those words out loud to another human being it solidified something deep within my spirit. i needed to make my dream a reality.
and i did end up moving to NYC by the end of that year.
now, usually i am a dream-hoarder. i know way too many people who like to keep dreamers down, so i find that i have to be mindful of whom i share my dreams with.
but that experience did make me realize that sometimes, saying a dream out loud as if it were fact, sometimes that’s the only way secret dreams become real.
love, e.
