Dream a Little Dream

Have you ever had a dream? A childhood fantasy you one day wish would come true? Something you wanted to grow up and be? I have.
Growing up I wanted to be 3 things, a singer, a model, and a NASA engineer. At the time I was the lead soprano in elementary school and I had an amazing voice until I started to smoke cigarettes and then that dream went down the crapper. I totally don’t kid myself about that either.
The NASA engineer wasn’t a far stretch. I wanted to design space shuttles. Well I don’t do that now, but I do design industrial equipment. I went to college got my AS in Mechanical Design and my BS in Mechanical Engineering. My parents are proud, my husband is proud, and I am proud. I have a new dream that stemmed off of this one, but I feel like even though it’s not NASA I’m still very happy doing what I’m doing.
Now comes to the last dream, being a model. I was always very skinny and tall. I sprouted like a weed in the 6th grade and haven’t looked back. I’m 5’9” and in my heels I’m 6’2”. Even with my height and my skinniness, people have always told me I’d never be a model. I’m not pretty enough; I need to have realistic dreams. Even when an offer came when I was a teenager it was turned down. I had a job to do and that was work on the farm. And I have to say that the farm is what gave me my shape, my muscles, and helped me stay toned and fit in high school and what I’m striving for now. I used to be able to bench 140, which is now my weight. I will never be that thin again, and if I was I’d probably die, but I went for it. Against everyone I went for my dream and applied to a local agency, and now I am a commercial model.
Will I get any work? I have no clue, but I did it. I went for my dream. My current friends are thrilled for me, giving me advice and are so happy I did it. If I’m ever in a magazine or on a billboard I will definitely post it. But I just wanted to say that those childish dreams we have growing up of being something and doing what we wanted to do, they can still happen even when we become adults.
Never let that little piece of hope fade away. We all grow up sometime, but its those fairytales and memories and dreams on falling stars that keep us going and growing.

<3 Mrs. D