In a Step from the Dream

The heart was beating terribly, throat was dry and it seemed that she tried to say something in vain – words were taken away with the wind, and lips just imitated mute shouts. The legs were giving way, eyes couldn`t dare to look down. It seemed that three minutes would never end. Mentally she understood she shouldn`t delay.

-                As longer you will wait the harder will be to jump, - the voice in her mind said.

-                 It`s easy to say, - Olga thought, - but I have to jump! And this tree doesn`t look like trees from my childhood on which climbed. Ten meters is not a joke!

The girl was almost on the top of the pine, or more precisely on the plank shelf nailed to the tree, and underneath friends were cheering her up all out. She needed to make only one step, but what a step!

-         Come closer to the border, - the voice didn`t stop.

 Just jump from the pine wasn`t enough: in one meter from Olya was a horizontal stick, for which she should grab. The stick symbolized a goal which the jumper tried to reach. That goal was so close that the task looked like a joke the more girl was belaying by reliable rope. You also can, standing on the earth, try to jump on a meter in front - it will not be a problem for you, but on high this distance seems a lot longer. And yet the desired goal is just in one step from you.

 Standing on the edge, you can be surprised by the thoughts which visit your mind. Olya thought about many things during those three minutes. For instance, she thought that people dream a lot, especially in childhood: boys want to become cosmonauts or outstanding football players, girls sees themselves in the role of famous ballerinas. Children believe in their dreams, but, becoming adults, they transform them in unattainable fantasies. Why we have this situation? How we can help ourselves to believe in our forces? There are created a lot of books, seminars, films about this topic… but the question of confidence in ourselves stays the main problem for many people. And often because of it we are afraid to make a step. There are a lot of ways to overcome uncertainty. Olga chose “the jump to the dream”.

At that time her worries were growing and she understood that the moment for action had come. The girl believed in her target and she didn`t want to accept the defeat. She can do it! She will not give up!

Coming to the border of the shelf, Olya looked to the woods. The energy of that place was very strong, air was clean, nothing was distracting from the goal. That was the reason of choosing that place: pine wood is very appropriate for such activities. That day in the forest was a training arranged by team building company. The goal was to build an effective work collective. So it was necessary for each employee to believe in themselves, become a reliable link of whole corporate structure. During last years this service is very popular in companies which understand that staff policy is very important. This is a story how Olga appeared on the pine`s top: it was the corporate training for employees.

Olya breathed out and concentrated on the goal which she had to reach, and in the same time on the dream which that construction symbolized. Gradually the situation stopped  remind the story of typical action movie, when the main character, running from the explosion, jumped from the ten-floor building and caught a rope ladder which so conveniently was hanging from the waiting helicopter.

Finally she dared. Only one jump – and her fingers touched the construction. At that moment she felt breathless, all thoughts and fears leaved her, and the only thing which occupied her mind was flying. For a few seconds she hanged in the air, but then her week hands couldn`t stand, and Olga fell off, but she touched her dream. It means that in real life she also can reach goals which on the first sight seem unattainable.

Believe in your dream and don`t be afraid of going to it. Even if at the beginning it seems that first step you did was in pursuit after it, eventually, it will turn around to your face!