Unfulfilled Dreams

Have you ever had a perfect opportunity to fulfill a dream, only to have it slip though your fingers? Maybe it was just the wrong timing, or maybe you just didn’t follow it through enough. Whatever the reason, you now spend your days wistfully remembering the time you almost had it made.

Well, I recently had one of those experiences. It was just last week, in fact. The conditions were absolutely perfect. There I was, driving home in the foot of snow we had received. And there it was, right in front of me: the cursed rooster that wakes me up at 4:30 every morning all summer. The explanation would have been so simple. I hit my brakes but slid into the poor bird (struggling to suppress laughter). But alas, at the last second my courage (read: rage) failed me, and I allowed the demon spawn to live to torment me another day.

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)en said…
That, Joel, is a pitoval moment. May you always reflect on what could have been had you followed your dream.
January 28, 2008 at 11:09 AM
Todd said…
This is probably a good time to tell you that the rooster is not waking you up...It is me.
January 28, 2008 at 6:07 PM
Kevin Lloyd said…
I'm so glad to see that you are aiming high, Joel.
January 28, 2008 at 6:40 PM
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