I'll tell you right now what I learned about most on this forum.  I learned about myself.  It took a good spanking at times, it took some reading.  It took some wise souls to let me in on what this life is about.....

Life is about turning your head and recognizing....Eye to Eye....whether you will be the cure, or the disease.  There's no in between, at least for me.  Life has been lived way before I was born and probably much later than when I die.  As I peer over my shoulder and out the window, I see flurries of snow scrambling to the ground.  Yet, here I sit.  I'm warm, I'm cozy, I'm content....for now.  Life is a mysterious little player though...

The Real Estate Business is much the same, what did you dream about when you grew up?  For me, I wasn't dreaming about financing houses....I was thinking about finding a place to call home once I left the nest.  My dream was to help others live out their dreams and find myself along my merry little way.  I just wasn't quite sure how I was going to go about doing that.

A couple of weeks back, I looked a colleague in his eyes and simply said, "This is Surreal."  Of course his retort was, "What do you mean?"  What I meant and mean is pretty simple.  We have earned and been bestowed the honor to help others in achieving the American Dream, buying a home.  We drive the economy.  The Mortgage Industry always will.  It is incumbent upon us to do our very best to ensure we make the world a better place by doing our jobs right, ethically, & to the best of our ability.  It is incumbent upon us to help make dreams come true.

Often times I look around Active-Rain and I see some of the best & the brightest in the biz.  It makes me proud to even be a small part of it all.  While darkness lurks around any corner of life, you can't ignore all that is right in this world and Active Rain.

While there is no manual I've read about Life or Real Estate, I do believe there is something we should all realize when passing through.  There is going to be a heck of a lot on your plate, I hope you're hungry.  And at night, when laying your head and bones to rest, your eyes will shut ...

It's time to open them, and live the dream.