madi’s place

“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.” – Victor Hugo

As a child we often use to imagine that we were someone or something in life. We use to pretend and play for hours that we were either doctors or lawyers or teachers, you name it we were it. I for some reason always pretended to be a teacher. I use to take all my reading books and handed it to my pretend class. I use to mark their work with a red pen, I set tests and all the things a normal teacher would do in their daily lives.

As I grew up however all this pretend play became a distant memory and later disappeared. I matriculated and started studying law, but for years I was very restless, both in my studies and the work I was doing. Something was missing. The company I worked for went under and we all lost our jobs. I was devastated. I had a lot of study debts to pay and no work. In a desperate attempt to see if any good will came from it, and to keep me busy I offered my service to the church to collect the monthly donations and contributions from the people. I ended up at a ladies house who changed my entire live. She was the Head of Department of the Afrikaans Department of the School where I became a teacher a few months later.

She set up an interview for me with the Headmaster. I was very scared the first time I stood in front of a classroom of children, but deep down in my heart I suddenly remembered what I use to do as a child. I dared to pretend I was playing school again. I ended up teaching there for almost seven years at that school from that day forward. All because I unpacked my dream.

Teaching was in my blood the thing I was made for but it took me a long time to realize it. Life had to first walk a different path with me to prepare me for my greatest reality.

None of our dreams are too big to become a reality, but for some reason we stop dreaming when we reach a certain age, and then fall into a rut. We become scared of our dreams, when actually they are the things that guide us in our childhood.

Most of us however pack our dreams away and never look at them again. Then we ask ourselves why are we unhappy. This because we don’t follow our inner guidance that was given to us a children.

We don’t do the things we are talented for and we don’t use the gifts God gave us to make us successful in our lives here. Everything that you see around you today was once a dream of someone who was not willing to give up on it.

Reach out and unpack your dreams and live the life your were meant to have.