Nikki Yeager

?There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.?- Douglas H. Everett

He was always trying to bring me back down to earth. I would say "I'm going to be rich" and he would scoff, "not without school". I would retort, "I'm going to be great at something" and he would reply, "no one can bank on being incredible."

And then I would think about it and halfway convince myself that practicality was the key to success. I would tuck my high flying, unrealistic dreams away and go on living like half the person I could be.When I was around him I was constantly meeting negativity- constantly hearing "no".

But now I've let 'no' go. Now I'm proud. Yes, I am unrealistic. I dream things that have never been dreamt and want things that could never be. But then the thing that could never be, is. My art that was mediocre is displayed in a New York City venue. My big time dream of getting paid to write something (no matter how insignificant) has been realized. I have an apartment in Chinatown for 800 a month.

Everything about my life is impossible. He would have told me it couldn't be done. Just like he always did.

But to him I say this:

It can be done. Because I've discovered that with enough work I can attain any goal, no matter how lofty.

So yes, sir, I am impractical.

But so was Picasso.