What a Catch!

Here is the link to a story about a boy and a dream.  Cosmo Miller broke two fishing rods before he caught the six-gill shark of his dreams.  Cosmo had seen some smaller sharks around his grandparents’ home in Normandy Park.  He learned what they look like from watching Discovery Channel.  I mean, here is some ingenuity at work!  I’m not sure where Cosmo learned that six-gill sharks like to eat dogfish (maybe he got that from Discovery Channel too,) but it must have been good because he caught himself a 150-pounder!

I read an article in my daughter’s Brio Magazine sixteen years ago that urged teens to follow their dream.  As I was reeling from a tragic and unexpected divorce of a long-term marriage, and returning to college to try to get skills to support me and my three remaining children still young, I was stunned by the magnitude of it all.  It can be pretty overwhelming.  More than once I was discouraged and wanted to give UP.  But those words in that article made a difference for me, and I never forgot the encouragement that I got to follow my dream.

This young man had a dream, and he didn’t let his small frame or his young years or a flimsy fishing pole keep him from reaching for that dream. 

And maybe that’s more of what this blog article is really about: research and tenacity and holding on when things are breaking down all around you.  Hang in there.

I don’t know where you’re at in your travels, but it will all be worth the effort you’ve spent when you have reached that dream.