SOMEDAY…

In our house, we talk a lot about our “Someday Dreams.” No matter how big, small or slightly questionable. The Someday Dream to run in the Boston Marathon, the Someday Dream to travel Europe, the Someday Dream to follow your favorite band along the eastern seaboard, the list goes on. It’s what keeps us going. It’s what keeps us thriving for tomorrow. But at times those Someday Dreams can feel overwhelming. Often we see friends and colleagues building  their Someday Dream and we tend to stare off to a corner of our mind and think, “oh, I could do that………Someday.”

For the longest time I kept seeing a quote everywhere that said “You can someday yourself out of a life.” Maybe it was my IG algorithm or my brain seeing what it wanted to see or maybe the universe was telling me something more. And, at that time, I had a “Someday Dream.” I would constantly create a plan in my head to open up a business and studio; and then something would deter those ideas wether it be life, my own self sabotage or even a world-wide pandemic. Every time I felt like it was out of reach I would say to myself “it’s ok, someday.”

I was content sitting and day dreaming about that “someday,” using it as a form of escapism and separating myself from it, and then throwing a never ending list of excuses at why it wouldn’t work. I will be the first one to admit that I will make up a hundred reasons on why I can’t do something instead of thinking of the one reason why. "Someday I'll teach yoga. Someday I'll own my own business. Someday I'll start a blog." and then I'll turn around and say “I need more experience. I need more funding. I need more time. I need more research. My ideas just aren’t good enough. I'm afraid to fail.” But, I’m slowly realizing more and more that by making those excuses, I literally put my life and happiness in the hands of a single, lone word – “someday.”

I completely don’t mean for this to turn depressing, it’s meant to give you a laugh and take your something from the “someday” to the now; and make it yours. Because. It. Is. Yours.

As my Father would so eloquently say many, many times in his life with his heavy North Jersey accent, “You just gotta shit or get off the damn pot.” Whatever “someday” is to you, take it and run with it wholeheartedly. And that’s exactly what I’m doing today and every day moving forward.

Welcome to my Someday Dream.

Peace & Love,

Cathy