Chasing Dream
I pulled out my china and started getting ready for a Christmas Eve wine and pasta dinner I am hosting. While unpacking and washing my china I can’t help but think on how different a person I am than I thought I wanted. I put my China on layaway when I was 16 years old. It took my 5 years to pay off my China and it is beautiful.
I had the dream of growing up and hosting fancy dinner parties on my beautiful China. I dreamed that I would be the perfect house wife, hosting the best dinners and parties for all my husband’s associates and clients. I even thought I would be the perfect mother. I would spend my days working out, getting manicures, pedicures, attending classes, cooking even painting. I would take my children to practices and never miss a game.
That was my dream at 16 and I had the start of making that dream come true, the china, the successful husband but I don’t like to cook. I don’t have the patience for painting and my hands spent too much time in chemicals for manicures. I do like pedicures but they don’t take up an entire day.
I don’t know what my dream is now, but they ones I chased when I was 16 are no longer for me. I don’t know that they ever were. I still have a complete set of beautiful china, with matching leaded crystal wine glasses (red and white) and real silverware.
posted by Spin_Doc1 at
3:16 PM
2 Comments:
One of the good things about growing older in my opinion. Dreams are a little more reasonable, and obtainable. Dream on hon.
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Rainwolf, at 10:09 PM
I think the downfall of social orer can be traced to the reduction of the practice of layaway. Credit cards = instant gratification so we never fully appreciate the things we have to work for. With layaway? Its a commitment. Every dollar earned is one step closer to the culmination of your desires.
I bought my first real suit via layaway. $420 = 60 bucks down and whatever I could muster ever week for the next three months. When you have to wait for something, you really appreciate it when you finally hold it in your hands.
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Smerdyakov, at 7:09 PM
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