Calling all the dreamers

I don’t think of myself as a very brave or courageous person.  I’m not scaling great heights and, in the great scheme of things, the successes that are most important to me are the little ones.

Ok sometimes I do have days when I feel I’m battling on but usually I think I slide from one thing to the next.  However this isn’t done effortlessly and sometimes I am less than graceful.

I also think that it is easy to get bogged down with the practicalities of life.  OK I’ll re-phrase that…… sometimes it is easy for ME to get bogged down with the practicalities of life.  When this happens there is only one thing to do – get yourself into the company of dreamers.  You know who the dreamers are in your life, they’re the people who reignite your passion and make you see all those things that you think you can’t do in a completely different light.

Even dreamers can have tough times though. This weekend I received an email from one of the dreamers in my life. Reading it I realised that life is presenting her with some pretty unique challenges.  In my reply to her I sent her this quote….

My friend is a fellow carer but unlike me she doesn’t get to step out of that world each day and go to work.  Although I understand personally many of the challenges that carers face I can only empathise with the complexity of her caring role.  Ultimately for carers their challenges are infinitely unique to their situation.  That can sometimes make life lonely and hard.

Someone recently asked me how I managed to juggle study, work, family and caring and in all honesty I really don’t know the answer to that. Perhaps it is because I am fortunate to have dreamers like my friend in my life who dare me to dream and keep going.

So this this is for my pal Mrs Bim to keep her dreaming…..

Who are the dreamers in your life?