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Life is one big venture.  A never-ending investment of blood, sweat, and tears.  We throw time, energy, and effort into building up our dreams and aspirations, and we put countless hours of preparation and study into securing our future.  We pinch and we save and we lay aside precious resources to create a means for accomplishing our goals.  Slowly the years drag by, and slowly we build our tower of dreams.

Then reality hits.  We begin to see how absurd our dreams really are.  We begin to understand the futility of our pointless pursuits.  What seemed forever to be the ultimate life-long objective now seems but a sorry excuse of a crazy idea dreamt up on a cold, sleepless night.  Our towers begin to crumble, and our world seems to cave in all around us.  Ultimately we end up at the bottom of a pile of dashed hopes, feeling frustrated and disillusioned.

The truth is that nobody said that pursuing your dreams would be simple or easy.  In fact, the process of fulfilling your greatest hopes and aspirations can be very daunting and discouraging.  It’s an ongoing cycle of building and re-building, of finding direction, losing direction, and finding it again.  Sometimes giving up seems the only logical decision, yet we can’t give up, for what would life be worth living for if it wasn’t lived intentionally and with purpose?  No, we must press on, building when we can, and picking up the pieces when we have to.  And though our house of cards may topple 10,000 times, yet we will remain determined and start re-building with new vigor and enthusiasm.  Dreams are meant to be attained, and we won’t let failure stand in our way…