After watching Barack Obama on Barbara Walters last week, I realized even the hopeful have to use some negative thinking and look at reality to move forward. From Anatara News (yes, I had to go outside the US to find these quotes!) via ABC News:
As a young boy, Barack Obama had different dreams about what he would end up doing as an adult, but they did not include taking over the White House, the president-elect said in an interview broadcast late Wednesday.
As a little boy “I had a bunch of different schemes,” Obama was quoted by AFP as telling ABC television.
“For awhile, I thought that I might end up being an architect. I liked the idea of building things. I don’t know what happened to that.”
Then he thought he might play basketball “until I realized that I wasn’t good enough to be a professional basketball player,” he said.
“I thought I might be a judge, but then I decided after going to law school, that I was probably a little too restless to sit on a bench all day long.
“So the one thing I know I didn’t expect that I was going to be was president of the United States.”
“If you have to find some use for yourself, this isn’t a bad way of doing it,” he said, smiling.
So instead of pursuing a dream of playing professional basketball, which in his own estimation would not have happened, instead of becoming a judge, which he admits he wouldn’t have liked very much, he ended up President, something he never expected. We all have dreams and hopes, but taking a realistic look at what we can’t accomplish sometimes opens doors to great things we never knew we could accomplish.
