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“But I need to finish school because there is a lot I need to know about building a time machine.”<\/p>\n
Right about now, the future starts to knock on the door. We are coming up to the new year, and in between the wrapping and the mailing of the cards I think about what I’d like to have happen in my new year.<\/p>\n
Goals. Resolutions. Dreams. Wishes.<\/p>\n
I can often imagine a goal.<\/p>\n
YES.<\/p>\n
THAT.<\/p>\n
And it’s so clear to me that I can almost reach out and touch it. Like the story of the spoiled child who wishes for the moon.<\/p>\n
It’s right THERE.<\/p>\n
No. It’s not. As clear as my vision of the desired goal is, it’s not here yet.<\/p>\n
There are a lot of steps to go through. Funny how those steps do not seem as clear and present as my vision of the goal.<\/p>\n
There are a lot of steps.<\/p>\n
I like how Veronica is aware that her goal has steps. I like that she is completely confident that the steps to arrive at her goal of inventing a time machine are simply waiting to be taken.<\/p>\n
Her definition of the steps is a good one too: learn more things.<\/p>\n
I probably need to learn more things to pull down the moon too. It may be easier than I thought. And in learning and trying, I may discover the right sort of moon-type object I was really trying to get.<\/p>\n
But I won’t know if I don’t try and learn.<\/p>\n
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