Pippa DaCosta's Blog - Posts Tagged "aspirations"

There once was a little girl who dreamed of being an author. She lived in a tiny little village, far away from publishing land (London). Her mother had died, so she'd had to move house (again), and her father would have done anything to make that little girl happy, but dreams cost money, and he didn't have any. And that little girl had many dreams. She turned those dreams into words, and words into stories, but publishing land was filled with perils and gatekeepers, and things the girl didn't understand. So, she put those dreams aside.
She grew older, got a job, and sometimes she would write her dreams down—when they called to her, as they often did—but those dreams had no place in the young woman's life. She had a career now. A husband. Her world was one far removed from dreams and stories. Then the woman gave up her career for her children, two wonderful little girls with many dreams and aspirations of their own.
And one day, a dream took hold of the woman, and this time it would not let go. This time, she turned that dream into words, and she turned those words into a novel. "Two years," she told herself. "I will give myself two years to make this dream real."
It didn't take two years to become a bestselling full-time author. It took thirty years of chasing the dream.
But I caught it.
Here's to living the dream.
~ Pippa DaCosta