Wednesday, May 1, 2013

   I've been reading Jon Acuff's new book Start.    I won't even attempt to paraphrase the book in this post (or any other) but basically it's about breaking free from "average".    I wouldn't consider it a motivational book or a self-help book.  There are no cutesy catch phrases and no "power of positive thinking".  It's more or less an "if you don't like where you are in life then do something about it" book.  I like that.
   So, in reflecting on what I had read the other day I asked myself " Kip, if you could make a living doing anything in the world what would you be doing?".   To which I promptly answered " I don't know."   
     I discovered that I lost my dream.   I know I had it with me but now I can't find it.  I set it down somewhere between changing dirty diapers and paying for college and now I don't know where it is. In fact I haven't seen it in so long I'm not real sure what it looks like.  I know for sure I had one though.  I used it all the time when I was a kid.   Maybe I wore it out or got to big for it.  I don't know what happened to it!   I will find it! I promise you that!!!