To dream…
The power of imagination inside your head.
To see not what is, but what could be instead.
The power to change, see things anew,
and wonder in reality, in actuality, what you’d choose.
It takes courage to dream, to let your sights wander free.
To say, ‘It’s not all it seems, there could be more for me.’
So stand up and be counted as a dreamer, let visions take shape.
Come, let’s dream together, and a future we’ll make…
A Kennedy
I wrote this many years ago now and came across it again recently. It’s a spoken word piece and makes me think about what life is. This year I made the decision to come out of teaching, a huge move given how much of my life and identity is in education. I don’t think I’ll ever lose or forget the impact my time as a teacher has had on me, but I’m excited to see what else the world has to offer.
This year has been a year of soul-searching, exploring and finding my joy again. I have travelled more this year than I have in the last 10 years, spent time with so many truly brilliant people and have enjoyed taking my time with life again. I’ve always enjoyed writing – a poem here, a model write there – but I never thought of myself as an author. This year I took the leap and submitted the story I wrote around 10 years ago to various publishers. It may come to nothing more than a few printed copied, but I believe there is something powerful in putting something of your heart into the world.
I don’t know what the next 10 years of my life will hold – do any of us really know? I can only hope that I am brave enough to take every opportunity that comes my way. We all have a voice, and this is me putting mine out into the world. This is me, being brave.
Abi Kennedy Writes 