[Blindtlk] Dare to DreamRe: dose of reality?

[Marion Gwizdala]

    I'm not sure where I first heard it, but one of my favorite affirmations 
is, "I dream big! If I don't dream, my dreams cannot come true!" Dreams are 
a function of our imagination. Norman Vincent Peale, in The Power of 
Positive Thinking wrote, "As we imagine ourselves with thoughts of success, 
the deeds of success will naturally follow! The thought is the ancestor to 
the deed."

Fraternally yours,
Marion

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rex Leslie Howard, Jr." <rex at littlelaw.com>
To: "'Blind Talk Mailing List'" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 11:45 AM
Subject: [Blindtlk] dose of reality?


>I cringe every time I hear someone say "dose of reality" because I have to
> ponder what, exactly, that means.
>
> One person's view of reality may differ considerably from another's.
>
> Here is a reality for me: In order for me to get to work, I have to wake 
> up
> at 5:45 in order to catch a ride with a church friend. This church friend
> takes me to a co-worker's house. I leave my house at around 6:20 and get 
> to
> my co-worker's house at around 6:40. I wait for my co-worker until around
> 7:20 when we leave for work to get here by 7:50. The trip to work from 
> home
> should normally take around 35 minutes but because there is no transit 
> where
> I live, I have to get to work in two legs of commute.
>
> This is my reality and may not be someone else's.
>
> If someone had told you 30 years ago that people would be walking around
> with phones that didn't need a cord connecting them to a wall, would you
> have believed it?
>
> If someone had told you, fifteen years ago, that the computer would
> revolutionize the world we live in, would you have believed it?
>
> If someone had said, 100 years ago, that it is possible for blind people 
> to
> work and contribute to the work force in a significant way, would you have
> believed them?
>
> Or, would we have said "we need to temper our dreams with a dose of
> reality?"
>
> Granted, there are many things that need revamping and improvement but it
> seems to me that time and future have always been the antidote to that
> old-favorite-phrase of "dose of reality."
>
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