You Are Never Too Old To Dream


Dreams and Aspirations have been ignored, forgotten or just plain crushed by the mindset that someone is “too old to dream.”

I remember during a family dinner, I made a quick remark about how I still watch cartoons and the response was “your not a kid anymore!”

Granted, puberty was taxing, but I may have missed that day in health class where we learned that cartoons are for kids and not adults, so no more shows like “Dexter’s Lab” or “The Amazing World of Gumball,” or, be still my heart, “Dragonball Z.”

Little do some realize, my watching cartoons are more than just for entertainment and enjoyment, but for my research and writing as well.

Dreams and aspirations are not what separates the children from the adults, but prepares the child to take on adult innovations, and the adult, with all his or her dreams in front of them, begins building and developing this dream into something that becomes real.

This means going to school, writing, drawing, creating, networking and doing everything that you are supposed to do to make your dream come true.

You’re not too old for your dreams and aspirations, but, if you wait too long, your dream will be too old for you!

Today’s Seven Sentence Guest Blog is written by Kendall Lyons, the writer at the Cartoondailynews.com. You can also follow Kendall on Twitter here.

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  • Wes Roberts

    Geoff…you are fast moving up into my Top 30 People In The World list of people with whom I would welcome having coffee, wine, whatever, and a very long conversation.  As I’ve followed your blog in recent weeks, I think you entered my longer list of Top 200 People.  You keep writing as you do, I may have to rearrange The Top 10.  :-)  Though there be decades of age between us, you keep dreaming…no matter how old you become.  Dreams spawn curiosity which spawns questions which spawns courage to investigate which spawns action which spawns making a difference in life, maybe for oneself, or for hundreds to thousands.  One of the 8 Dimensions of Life I propose in the mentoring I do with developing leaders around the globe is C.I.D.P. (not a disease…lol…but an invitation to freedom), encouraging others, no matter their age, gender, ethnicity, etc., to be creative, innovative, designful and playful…the “stuff” of dreams.  Now…I say no more…because this is my seventh sentence…except, thank you for being you!  Dream on!!!  (…oops…that’s an eighth sentence…sorry!)

    • http://sevensentences.com Geoff Talbot

      Thanks for this comment Wes… I would be terrified of meeting you because on a bad day I would be sure to disappoint lol.  This actual post was written by a guest blogger, but the rest are generally mine.

      The 8 Dimensions of Life sound incredible. Would you consider writing a seven sentence blog post about them.

      Thanks again…

      Geoff

      • Kendall Lyons

        I think I had the most fun and learned the most about writing with this article. Often with blog posts and creative work we think we need to be gigantic and long winded. Often, even as my Pastor tells me, keep it simple. Thank You Geoff for the awesome privilege to write. I hope to be able to do it again!