I know how life can be. You’re not sure what you want to do with your life. Should you go to school or shouldn’t you? If you do, what should your major be? Isn’t your life complicated enough without going to school? Heck, you don’t have enough time to go to school. Maybe when you were a kid you thought you could get a degree “someday” but time keeps slipping by. Today will be gone, tomorrow will go much the same way and before you know it, life has slipped by without you following through on your own goals or dreams. What about the other goals you have set for yourself? Have you met those? If not, have you started?

The problem with dreams we have when we are younger is that we are so focused upon what the end result will be, we never realize that there will be sacrifice, work, time spent away from the short lived pleasures that get us from day to day. Soon, we grow older, discover new things and are presented with choices that cause us to second guess our original dreams. We are offered compromises, alternatives and sometimes we sell out and sell ourselves short. Sometimes we make excuses and explain ourselves out of following through on the things we really want out of life. Not just a degree, but almost anything. When I was a boy I wanted to be either a soldier or a police officer. I never joined the military much to my own personal regret, but I followed through on my dream of law enforcement, have lived it, loved it and now I am ready to move on to another dream. But these new dreams will begin much like those of getting into law enforcement and getting a degree, they will begin with a single step, taken on a single day. A day that I made count, a day that I can pinpoint on the blur that is my life and say “on this day I changed who I am”. Today is November 27, 2007, is this the day you change or begin to change who you are or will be?