I didn’t have much faith in a year ending with the number 13. Yes, sometimes I can be very superstitious. However, the 13 was a year that left me a great lesson, besides giving the new love of my life, my son Erik .
For many, even for me until recently, dreaming is painful. Is taking our mind to what we consider unattainable, something we want in order to be happy but for one reason or another we can’t have. But dreams should not involve pain. If anything this odd year taught me was that dreaming is a tool that should make me happy. It took me some time and effort to get rid of the “unattainable” word. Then I realized that dreaming in such a way that it would bring hope in exchange for pain, involves a commitment to yourself. When the mind travels to that something you crave, you not only have to imagine your desire. You should also imagine the road to get there. This is when what we dream ceases to be unattainable to become something possible. Dreaming to be happy means wanting to do whatever it takes to fulfill that dream. That illusion of fighting for what you dream is what gives you the strength to go on, to avoid the obstacles encountered or worst case scenario, when one of them stop us or make us fall to ground, it only be a momentary pause and soon you rise again stronger and more determined. Even, sometimes things change as we go forward to obtain what we dream. It’s part of the process to realize that there are paths that look like a maze with no exit, and suddenly you realize they were the wrong ones. However, you must return with your head up, because never a journey is a passage without lessons. The directions may change, sometimes we have to choose paths that we thought we would never take, but they are there. It is what we call options. The important thing is not to lose the target and even more, do not lose faith that you will make things happen. Believe that your dream will become a reality, no matter what.
It was not an easy year. I still stuck in the maze trying to find the exit. But there are years that are just that. They serve to make us walk in these tangled paths, those that carry us and bring us back and forth, apparently senseless but actually they serve to make us wiser.
I hope that for all of you next year will be one of those years with clearer skies and better roads. That what is to come will have that flavor that only success can give, whatever the definition you have for it, because success is different for everyone. I hope you continue dreaming to be happy, do not be discouraged if something went wrong, if you found a wall instead of the exit at the end of the road. Keep trying.
Now here comes my Oscar-award-acceptance-speech. I want to thank my family for their full support to each of my crazy ideas to achieve my dreams. My husband, my children, my parents, siblings and even my pet, are those beings who I dream for and follow any path. Thanks to my friends, my accomplices, my pin to ground, for everything we have lived this year. Thank to those who bought my book, and those who didn’t HERE IT IS FOR FREE for you to read this Christmas. Things are coming, changes are near. I hope God give me health and life to follow through paths that help me to get where I want. But do not stop dreaming. If anything is reached, something more can be obtained. Merry Christmas and Happy 2014!
