SHOWER THINKING

THE BEST THOUGHTS OCCUR...WHEN YOU ARE IN THE SHOWER...


Are you gonna live your live wondering,Standing in the back, looking around?Are you gonna waste your time thinking,How you've grown up, or how you missed out?Things are never gonna be the way you wantWords are gonna get you acting sillyThings are never gonna be quite what you wantEven at 25 you gotta start sometimeI'm on my feetI'm on the floorI'm good to go-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-Are you gonna live your live wondering,Standing in the back, looking around?Are you gonna waste your timeGotta make a move, or you miss out-Jimmy Eat World, Crimson and Clover

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That is one of those undeniable truths... The shower produces the best thoughts. Period. While in the shower I began thinking about my recent decision to follow my heart and chase my dreams. I tend to get analytical about phrases... Where they came from, who came up with them, why? All that. I began to ponder on the phrase "chase your dreams".
That in turn brought about images of myself in hot pursuit of my fleeing hopes and dreams (I am a very visual person). I concluded that the reason we have to chase them [our dreams] is that they are, in fact, fleeing. They are not just going to sit around and wait for you to grab them by the hand or fall into your lap. They are "oft, in the stilly night" And you must away to chase them. You have to work for it. The best thing's in life are like that. They take effort, sacrifice, dedication, loyalty... I could go on and on. 
I am not really sure why I never came to the conclusion before that the thing's I really want out of life will not just be handed to me. God knows that is never how it has worked up to this point... I am done wondering; I am done missing out. I am going to make my move. In fact, I have already begun to make my move. And I look forward to the outcome. Even if that outcome is not exactly absolute success. Because in this, I cannot fail, except by not trying at all. Even if I do not become a published author or a successful photographer I will be proud that I made the effort to achieve the thing's that I want. That is more than most people can say. Not that I am trying to beat anyone else at anything... But I am very proud to say that I am finally following my heart. And I hope that it leads me to a good place. I hope that I am successful in achieving my dreams, but if I am not... I think that is okay too. I am by no means accepting "failure" or saying that I don't have to work super hard because it doesn't really matter... THAT is most certainly not the case. I am just well aware that the thing's I want are extremely difficult to procure. 
Statistics say about five out of twenty five hundred manuscript sample pages a literary agent receives in a years time will actually be picked up by a publisher. About thirty two thousand querie letters lead to the lucky twenty five hundred. And then about ninety eight manuscripts will actually be read before the fortunate few are chosen for publishing. For photography businesses; in the first year, about  sixty percent of photographers are unsuccessful in the field. Of that remaining forty percent, another twenty five percent will fail within the second year. About fifteen percent of those who endure through the third year are successful. Altogether,  those are rough odds. But I dream non-the-less... 

AND SO... HERE'S TO SUCCESS!