Comments on: Big and Blessed http://guinnterrydavis.com/big-and-blessed/ Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:32:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Guinn Terry Davis http://guinnterrydavis.com/big-and-blessed/comment-page-1/#comment-77 Guinn Terry Davis Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:27:11 +0000 http://www.guinnterrydavis.com/big-and-blessed/#comment-77 Or sometimes when someone reaches the "Big One", it isn't what they thought it was cracked up to be, or they get complacent. But sometimes they enjoy it. It's always good to set up new goals if you accomplish old ones. Or sometimes when someone reaches the “Big One”, it isn’t what they thought it was cracked up to be, or they get complacent. But sometimes they enjoy it. It’s always good to set up new goals if you accomplish old ones.

]]> By: Chad Miller http://guinnterrydavis.com/big-and-blessed/comment-page-1/#comment-76 Chad Miller Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:42:21 +0000 http://www.guinnterrydavis.com/big-and-blessed/#comment-76 I totally agree with you that we can certainly go further striving for unreachable goals that we naively presume are within reach. However, there comes a point when reevaluation of those goals becomes a necessity (so we don't go on beating our heads against the wall). When we leave the old Impossible Dream to pursue the new Impossible Dream, we are each time giving ourselves an opportunity to perhaps achieve that which was once "impossible". And when we go back and examine the old dreams, we'll find that either they aren't as appealing as they once were, or they are much more within our grasp. For instance, 17 years ago, I BEGGED my mom for a Nintendo. I dreamed of it. But I never got one. Now that I have pursued other, loftier goals, I find today that a Nintendo (Wii) is much more of an attainable goal, but it no longer has the same appeal. (Not that I don't want one...) Ah, nostalgia... I totally agree with you that we can certainly go further striving for unreachable goals that we naively presume are within reach. However, there comes a point when reevaluation of those goals becomes a necessity (so we don’t go on beating our heads against the wall).

When we leave the old Impossible Dream to pursue the new Impossible Dream, we are each time giving ourselves an opportunity to perhaps achieve that which was once “impossible”. And when we go back and examine the old dreams, we’ll find that either they aren’t as appealing as they once were, or they are much more within our grasp.

For instance, 17 years ago, I BEGGED my mom for a Nintendo. I dreamed of it. But I never got one. Now that I have pursued other, loftier goals, I find today that a Nintendo (Wii) is much more of an attainable goal, but it no longer has the same appeal. (Not that I don’t want one…)

Ah, nostalgia…

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