Dreams and What May Be
by Charlotte Bennardo Photo by Мария Портнова : https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-neon-signage-on-the-wall-8296426/ Our theme is dreaming big versus staying realistic. Now I could name lots of people who dreamed big; authors, inventors, entrepreneurs, scientists, etc. You get the idea. For all those who kept to staying realistic, well, we wouldn't have heard of them. So which is better? In my life, I've followed both paths. For dreaming big, I was the first in my immediate family to not only graduate college, but get a Master's. However, it took me a number of years to achieve this. I got my dream job as a journalist, only to realize that I didn't like choosing between gas in my car and eating. I've held a number of jobs that I liked; paralegal, substitute teacher (in hopes of becoming a teacher), and author, but my favorite was being a mom to three boys. I still have big dreams but I've tempered them with a dose of reality. The chances of me being another JK R...