Dreams

I was about to go to sleep, because I am very, very sleepy, and I was flipping thru the stations to find something to fall asleep to and I came across the special for the new Diddy reality show that's about to start coming on. 13 people are competing to become his personal assistant. Apparently, after you are his personal assistant, you can pretty much write your own check. You become so sought after by other companies because they know that he is so hard to work for. They were showing his past assistants and they were explaining how crazy it is to work for him because you can not do simple things, like sleep. One of his assistants said that you can never tell Mr. C that you are tired, because what rhymes with tired? Fired! It was funny to me until I realized just how much of a genius Diddy is. I mean we can talk about his rapping or whatever, but no one can deny the man's business sense. He knows things that you will never learn in any business school, including Harvard and Yale. And it made me realize that I do not have that "go get it by any means necessary" trait. At least not now. And I wonder, what makes a person have that trait. Is it hereditary? Are you born with it? Or do you develop it? I mean, Diddy is human just like me and everyone else on this earth, but look at what he was able to accomplish in such a short time. I mean, his money is new. Not like the Rockefeller's money or the Kennedy's. He just made this money within the last 15 or so years. Now I'm thinking, I gotta develop this trait. The world is so full of opportunity and it takes all kinds to make the world go round. And while we need people to mop the floors of the office buildings, and drop fries at McDonalds, I am not one of those people, and I don't want to surround myself around people who are. When I'm at work, (and call me a conspiracy theorist) but I think it's a cult or something. How else could you get thousands of people to follow your way just because you say it is the right way. And how could you make thousands of people believe that it is something wrong with them because they don't want to work hard to make your dream come true? You must be dealing with weak-minded people. That's how. I can't live like that. I read a quote on one of my old classmate's Facebook page, crazy Clifton Dailey, that said "if you don't dream you'll spend your life working for those that do." And I swear I had never heard anything so true in my life! Isn't that what you do at your job? Aren't you working your ass off for somebody else's dream? I know I do. But, why are we raised to think that is the way to go? Why do we push our kids off to college to do just that--become complacent. Cause that's really what it is. I refuse! I have my own dreams, and I don't need to work hard to help you fulfill yours or anybody else's as long as I can dream myself. So, I said all that to say, discover your dream and work it. Cause if not, you'll be working to fulfill mine.