Dreams

It's hard to put into words the way a dream makes us feel. I admit for a long time I stopped dreaming and started living. For some of us just living day to day and being responsible is enough, for others looking toward the future is the only way to go. My best friend just so happens to be a dreamer. She moved here from Wisconsin with a guitar in her back, a jar full of change, and a dream to write music. I've had the pleasure of knowing her for almost 4 years now and it has been the most amazing friendship I could have ever asked for. This is one of the strongest, most independent women I know. For years she has been writing song after song, only for it to never go much further than my living room or hers.  I've watched her ups and her downs, i've watched her spirits soar and get squashed but she always moved on. Tonight I saw this girls dream come true, something I almost missed and would have kicked myself forever about had I of been stupid enough to have done so. She's not the kind of girl who would ever want to take the stage herself but wants her words to touch the souls of others, to find the words they couldn't say. Tonight a band finally put life behind one of her songs and played it out in public. I could go on for hours as I watched my best friend shake in anticipation, how when the beat to her song started to play her eyes welled up with tears, how I stood behind her hand on her back and cried as Rebecca Mae and the Double Shot sang about a girl who did things on her own and her own way, how the road wasn't easy but it was worth it. That will be a moment I never forget in my life. To see my friends face light up with hope, and joy, and be overwhelmed by the emotion of the moment. It couldn't have been a more fitting song, for a more perfect selfless friend. Don't stop dreaming people, we only have one life to live and it's too short to waste it. I have to admit I was jealous in that moment watching my friend, only because I wish I had what she had. I am happy I got to be there though to remember the true power of a dream.