I had a dream about you. I licked your cone of ice cream. It was envelope flavored.

I had a dream about you. You were learning to compose music like Mozart and I was learning to listen like Beethoven. He was deaf and you were blind to the fact that you had no musical talent. Still I wore my ear plugs and I clapped and cheered while you banged away on the piano.

Believe that you are capable of achieving your dreams.

Fix your eyes on what you believe and not what you see.

Encouragement is like water to the soul it makes everything grow.

Many years later when I began training as a plastic surgeon I understood something that I had not that day in the kitchen arguing for Thalia to leave Tinos for the boarding school. I learned that the world didnt see the inside of you that it didnt care a whit about the hopes and dreams and sorrows that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple as absurd and as cruel as that. My patients knew this. They saw that much of what they were would be or could be hinged on the symmetry of their bone structure the space between their eyes their chin length the tip projection of their nose whether they had an ideal nasofrontal angle or not.Beauty is an enormous unmerited gift given randomly stupidly.

I had a dream about you. You were a sunscreen salesperson and you approached me and said Would you like to buy some sunscreen I looked at you like you were a curious insect as I replied No thanks. Im still standing in my fathers shadow.

I had a dream about you. We were playing table tennis which angered my family because they were trying to enjoy their Thanksgiving dinner on it. They thought we were selfish and we thought they were two months too early. Seriously Thanksgiving is in November and this was September. Also they need to start treating us like the serious athletes we are.

Be Original. Follow your dreams. The worst possible thing for you to do in life is give up what makes you happy.

If we dont chase our dreams then we will be ran over by our fears.