Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Dare to Dream the Impossible Dream

The last few months has been filled with the dreaded "D" word...DRAMA...in the quilting world. Apparently People have a hard time accepting other's ideas, patterns, fabric designs, etc as personal works. There have been hurt feelings due to negative comments.

To those who seem to not have possitive things to say, didn't your mother ever tell you that if you don't have anything nice to day, don't say anything? Just because you don't personally like something doens't mean that you have to leave nasty comments. It's really simple: just DON'T READ IT. If it's not something that will hurt something, then why bother? Just ignore it. Is your life so miserable that you need to bring others down with  you? Sheesh...

Ok now that I have that out of the way I can get to the point of this post.

My husband and I were watching The Man from La Mancha last night. It's a musical featuring Peter O'Toole who plays Don Quixote and Sophia Loren. Don Quixote sings The Impossible Dream in the movie. I hadn't heard the song in a long while. This got me thinking. Why do so many people give up on their dreams? Why are we so easy to put down another person's dream? Why is it that when we grow up that we forget our dreams or cast them aside because they are "childish"? Are we just too afraid to pursue our dreams because we see all of the negativity and are afraid to be rejected? (Don't have to answer these, just questions to think about.)

My challenge to you is to Dream! Dream your "Impossible Dream" because you never know where it will take you and what you can accomplish until you try! Don't be afraid what others will think. Your dream is yours and your alone. At the end of the day what matters is that you are satisfied and happy with what you have done. Have the courage to face those who would bring the negativity, because there will always be someone who wants to hold you back or put down your dream. Do your best and most importably don't "grade" your work with others. Yours is an original!

Here are the lyrics to the song:

To dream ... the impossible dream ...
To fight ... the unbeatable foe ...
To bear ... with unbearable sorrow ...
To run ... where the brave dare not go ...
To right ... the unrightable wrong ...
To love ... pure and chaste from afar ...
To try ... when your arms are too weary ...
To reach ... the unreachable star ...

This is my quest, to follow that star ...
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far ...
To fight for the right, without question or pause ...
To be willing to march into Hell, for a Heavenly cause ...

And I know if I'll only be true, to this glorious quest,
That my heart will lie will lie peaceful and calm,
when I'm laid to my rest ...
And the world will be better for this:
That one man, scorned and covered with scars,
Still strove, with his last ounce of courage,
To reach ... the unreachable star ...

And here is Peter O'Toole and Sophia Loren singing The Impossible Dream.

2 comments:

Selina Marie said...

Lovely post, Amanda. I agree with you 100%. I am trying to live my dream, but real life has a tendency to get in the way. Thanks for the reminder to keep pushing forward and not give up.

Susie said...

I must admit that this is the only type of "drama" that I haven't seen lately. For those people doing it though, causing such drama, I say shame on them. They're probably just jealous that they didn't think of the ideas first anyway. LOL

What I have seen, and I find disheartening, are the harsh comments being left on blogs. I just don't get it. I saw one bashing a person for being able to go out and spend the money on fabric & then blog about it. (Apparently blogging about that fabric is now considered bragging. I thought the whole point about blogging was to talk about such things as fabric... who knew?)

Conversely, I also saw a comment on a blog, discussing a swap, where the person was complaining about what they had received and stated publicly & quite rudely how they were disgusted & fed up with receiving swap quilts made with "cheap Joann's fabrics." I had to pipe up on that one! That one ticked me off. Not everyone can afford the high priced boutique lines. Yet they still want to participate in the swap, which are supposed to be about the experience and are supposed to be fun, dammit! Should they be excluded because they're not a rich fabric snob? Grrrr! Mean people suck!

Ok, sorry for the long comment. I tend to get on my soapbox and don't shut up. Oops! But, I have noticed that someone has apparently taken a huge poop in the Cheerios of the Quilting World or something. Haterade seems to be the beverage of choice. I don't know if it's the economy, society's sense of entitlement and subsequent jealousy if it doesn't happen, or what. All I know is that I'm over it. People need to grow up..