Sure and you’re darn-tootin’ I did…
That wasn’t the answer give by the fellow being interviewed by the CBS reporter. The singer – getting questioned on TV for his several music award nominations – gave a measured response and was much more articulate. I was glad he didn’t humble himself for the camera.
The question put to him was: Did you ever in your Wildest Dreams think you’d find yourself in this position?
That interviewer-nugget is tossed out on camera way too often, and normally the response is an Aw-shucks-heck-no kind of reply. Why?
Success is rarely an accident. Admittedly, there are lottery beneficiaries – but most winners become that because of dreams.
Wild dreams are the foundations of plans. No apologies are needed for them. Dreams aren’t non-refundable tickets for distant destinations. You can book your course and change it.
Whenever you like.
You might leave your wildest dream for another and later abandon that for the original. Dreams are flexible that way. You can have a dream and realize it may not come to pass – for whatever reason – and continue to harbor it. Of my sleeping dreams, my favorites are the ones in which I can fly; it’s a soaring Superman-with-arms-at-the-sides flight. Talk about goofy fun.
They are exhilarating.
But even knowing those thrilling flights won’t ever happen, I enjoy the dreams all the same.
I’m thinking Danny Manning’s Wildest Dream did not include the head basketball coach’s job at the University of Tulsa. That’s a great job, as evidenced by the many coaches who have gone from there to larger schools, institutions with legacies of winning, and embarrassingly large coach’s paychecks.
That Mr. Manning has opted to leave for Wake Forest reflects on dreams in general, and how can it be wrong to move in that direction? A disappointment for the Golden Hurricane, but hopefully (except for how quickly it happened) not a surprise to anyone.
There was a time when the musician interviewed this morning was a young boy with a guitar in his hand and fingers aching from the practice. At some point, maybe in the back of his mind, there was a dream of performing. Do you think he was imagining standing on the smallest stage in the world?
No way. The dream needs to include a spotlight on the grandest stage, playing for the most important, appreciative audience on the planet.
Did you ever in your Wildest Dreams think you would be where you are today?
I hope not. Dreams ought to be dynamic, evolving, and enjoyed for what they are – wild or not.
That young baller in the picture has that dreamer’s determined look. (Apologies, Big-D, but I ran across the pic this morning and with the basketball it seemed fitting.) Perhaps Danny Manning might have turned down the Wake job if he’d only had this young point guard’s savvy in the lineup. Every boy and girl with a basketball in hand wants to make the winning shot. In today’s game. In the playoff. In the National Championship game.
We should never be humbled by the question.
If you reply, Never in my Wildest Dreams, then you aren’t dreaming wild enough.
Dream wild, my friends.
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