the business of fulfilling dreams

alright. enough with the silly questions already. i’m not just sitting on my fat hairy arse wasting my life away. im teaching. im a tutor. a full-fledged-full-time-full-whatever-it-is-you-call-it tutor. and yes. im damned happy doing it.

had a long chat with my dad today and i guess he finally came to terms with the fact that i was going to be teaching - albeit for a short while. so he dove into his “if-you-can’t-win-them-join-them” speech and spoke to me for a good solid half hour. that half hour shook me up real good.

after going on and on about how i needed to start being serious and start aggressive marketing, he finally said this to me. and boy did it smack me in the face.

“you are in the business of creating and fulfilling dreams son…”

initially, i sat there and thought to myself, ‘ok… maybe this time he’s really gone over the cliff… dreams? what the heck in the world is he talking about?’ so i smiled and said ‘yup… dreams’.

but i guess he sense that i was just being patronising so he look at me seriously and repeated himself. then he went on to tell me how as a parent he would have dreams of his son becoming a somebody in life. someone respectable, someone smart, someone sensible. and since education started in school, he hoped that his child’s teacher would be a great role model.

then it struck me. (i bet this was exactly how einstein felt when the apple hit his head. =) )

i wasn’t just there to teach or to help them pass… i was there to help fulfill dreams. dreams a father had for his son, big huge dreams a child had to become someone - maybe just like his dad… dreams of a better tomorrow… dreams…

so i guess im finally understanding my dad. i am in the business of creating and fulfilling dreams! no kidding!