And So It Begins

I am writing these words because you and I are the next Einstein - we are Beethoven, we are Spielberg, we are Virginia Woolf. This blog is not meant for those who strive to reach the middle. It is composed of the same inerasable substance that has propelled all great humans from obscurity into the renown of history's robust annals. For every individual, no matter how great they will one day become, starts off as an ordinary person.

The hardest thing in the world to be certain of is a magnificent dream. I do not refer to meager aspiration - the type that grows ordinary and prosaic from every fissure of life. I refer instead to the raw, unpolished lumps that are mined from the caves of improbability. We are audacious, dust-covered miners and we seek a truth that Thoreau's desperate masses have chosen to leave behind. It is a voracity that no doubt, no seemingly-overbearing circumstances could ever deny us. It is our destiny, and we seek it with conviction.

Though I am only a nineteen years old girl, I know that I will accomplish great things. And so it is towards this goal that I labour each day not simply because I want to, but because I must. A great dream, if left unaccomplished for long enough, will destroy the person who owns if. For nothing is so potent and untamed as the undiluted essence of aspiration.

And so it begins....I have created this blog for us. My words are meant for all, irrespective of age or background. The only prerequisite is that you carry the avoirdupois of a truly wondrous dream upon your back, and that you seek it tirelessly, striving through whatever twisted corridors and unlit alleys that life may throw upon you with a persistent knowledge that soon, very soon you shall reap the benefits of an honest, unique ambition.

I will share my story with you day to day, as well as the events that have brought me up to this point. I ask that you do the same. For here we tie the bond between us - and whether you strive to be conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics or an Oscar-Winning director then you can do it. Nothing can stop you but yourself. I will support and hold you accountable for achieving success, and I hope you will do the same for me. I leave you with the words of Anthony Robbins:

"You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows, and has always known, that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival.”

Hear the imminence of your dream ringing in the air and own it. You hold the power to control your own destiny and so you shall. This is the moment it all begins. This is how you change the world.