Dream Audaciously.

The other day I had a thought.
 If you were to look down at the world, before your life had even began, and were talking to your fellow not yet existent friends, what would you imagine for your life? Would you say, "Man, if I were alive, I would go to school, be average, go to college, graduate, get a good job, be middle class and have some fun along the way."? Chances are... no. Most of us, if given the chance to have this detached perspective of our own circumstances would perceive them in the daydream kinda talk we usually do when saying what we would do if we were to win the lottery, make it big, or any of the many thoughts we've entertained ourselves with over the years. I, for one, wouldn't sit up there and wish to be mediocre. I would look down at our world and think one thing: I want to rock that place. I want to live so passionately, so fearlessly, so out of the lines that society will draw for me, that an adjective would have to be created to describe the kind of life I lived when my time is up. I would want to be remembered, not for something self glorifying, but for creating such inspiration, such impact... for having ridiculously big dreams.. and then fulfilling them.
That is what I would say.

 Then, I had another thought... why am I NOT pursuing this path wholeheartedly? It may be crazy, but who is to say I, who is to say WE, can not all accomplish this?
At 19 years old, and a freshmen in college, life right now is probably more confusing that it has ever been. With the grind of tests, lack of sleep, and constant planning of my future, the most logical thing for me to do is to fulfill the requirements set up for me, do what it takes to get my law degree in human rights, and THEN start helping the world. Yet another good life, but in a lot of senses, a safe life... a medicore life. Ahh, mediocrity. My worst fear and the enemy of greatness. 

 I am Lauren Miller. I am crazy, I am ambitious, and I would like to stop waiting, stop planning, and start changing the world... NOW. This whole cookie-cutter plan for my life that is being shoved on me is rather a bore, and I would like to do something extraordinary. So I will do just that. It may involve some dangerous world adventures, extra hard work, and a little luck, but I dream of going after what I've been told it is unreasonable to dream of. Starting today, I am doing just that. If we all did this, man, what a different place the world would be.


As I hear that little voice who gave me a wake up call, I realize that I was put here with potential, for a reason. We all were. And it's time to reach with determination and reach high. Higher then a lot of people may expect me to ever go. Well, to those people: watch me. Yes, I dream to the stars and beyond even as my feet are attached to the ground. Luckily, I'm willing to learn how to fly.