After a friend talked to me about Elisabeth Gilbert, the American bestseller writer (Eat, pray, love), I decided to have a look at her website. Just before I read her website, I was thinking how after the first 15 days of my challenge gone, I seemed to have more doubts then I had at the beginning and I was asking why I started this challenge and why I wanted to re-invent myself at my age. I’m glad I read it. There is a section there where she shares her thoughts about writing, dreams and life in general. It seemed that she was talking to me. All the things I needed to hear. Her advice inspired me and made me think that I can do whatever I decide to do and my search for that answer should be what keeps me going.
Later on, while doing the ironing, I watched “Yentl”, an old film with Barbara Streisand as a Jewish girl, whose dream is to study Talmudic law, which was only permitted to men. She dresses as a man and starts to study, when she meets Avigdor and instantly falls in love with him. When she tells him that she is actually a woman, he starts to make plans for them to stay together, but he wants her to be just a woman, a Jewish woman. He says: “you don’t need to study, I’ll do all the thinking for us”. He then asks her: “what else can you want? And she replies: “More”.
Not surprisingly he marries another girl and Yentl moves to America to keep pursuing her dream.
So that is it. When you want more, you need to work harder, you need to fly higher and you can never stop following your dream.
I keep looking for signs. And they always come. A good lesson learnt today.
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