Another look at that old dream

What old dream do you want to bring back into your life? 

Ideas and longings easily get sidelined as we move into proper adulthood. Perhaps what suddenly seems to matter is the salary and the status. Perhaps busyness pushes them away. Or perhaps there were many ideas and they simply didn’t all fit, so far, in this one life. 

When I started taking university courses in psychology and neuroscience some years ago, my brother reminded me that I had been gushing about becoming a psychologist when I was in my teens. Although an interest in how people ‘work’ has always been there, I’d forgotten this longing completely. 

I didn't study psychology for my degree - instead I read History a bounded into my first career as a journalist. This was another ‘want’, for sure, though my teen image of myself as a war correspondent didn’t quite come to fruition as I covered the early days of the mobile content industry. 

Training as a coach later in life was the expression of that interest in learning about and working with people. I’m not a psychologist, but that side of my knowledge-base is always present. This work I do feels very right for me. 

Dreams don’t necessarily need to find expression in work, of course. The other day, I met someone whose passion for art isn’t part of her work, but she has found expression for it on Instagram. She curates a feed of the exhibitions she visits, simply because she loves it. 

It might be a dream adventure; it might be restoring an old car, or helping abandoned dogs. What’s the dream you need to revisit and turn into a part of your life? 

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