Where are you today?

2,740 miles later I have returned back to Homer City, Pennsylvania. Returned to the place where my dreams of becoming a sports broadcaster/reporter first began.

I ask you if you are reading this, to think back of some of your childhood dreams.


Ok.........got them?


Good!




Let me guess, some of your dreams might have had you catching a touchdown from your favorite Steelers QB? Others probably saw themselves as a movie star sharing that onscreen love scene with Kate Beckinsale. Whatever the dream was, it allowed you at that instant to believe that someday it may come true.





Ok, now let’s flash forward to now and tell me how each of your dreams turned out...
EHHHH, not too good huh. Let me take another stab at this:



The boy who dreamed in his backyard that he was playing beside Larry Bird is now sitting at a desk crunching numbers and waiting till 5 so he can go home, mow the lawn and start the day all over again tomorrow. Then there is the child that everyone thought was going to be the next Superstar. His dream was to someday make a difference in the world and find that cure for cancer. I’m guessing though, he is probably in sales somewhere sitting at an airport hating life as his wife bitches to him over the phone that their daughter is sick.


As I sat on the plane returning home from Bismarck, North Dakota I had the opportunity to read “The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch. For those of you who don’t know, Randy was a professor at CMU who died recently of cancer. The book gives many great life lessons, but the part I found most gratifying was how he looked back on his life.



How if you knew you had 3 months to live would we look back on our life? Would you take your dreams and try to make them a reality?


The fact is I am not dying but I do fall into the category of shattered dreams like a majority of society and probably most, if not all of you reading this blog. As I have told you numerous times I have a passion to broadcast sports and report them. Since I was 10 years old I have had a microphone in front of me.


There are many obstacles that can come in front of you and run your dream off your path. It could be that you have fallen in love and want to spend the rest of your life with someone. It could be that everyone wants experience but no one will give you the time. Or, it could be in Randy’s case that you just may be running out of time.


NO matter what the situation is, it is your decision to decide the next step in your path. Sometimes I wonder if that path is the correct one, or maybe I should take the one less traveled. It turns out though that no matter what I decide, I am still not ready to give up on my dream.



A dream that someday will touch someone else and maybe lead their child to get into broadcasting. I want to delivery content to the fans that they can look back and say to their children, "follow your dreams like Mario did and never give up!"

Till that time comes, I will have to sit at my desk, and wait for the next call. Who knows maybe its FSN on the line. If I had a guess though it is probably my boss Ashley asking me to design another newsletter or label another skittles packet.