The Land Of Abandoned Hopes & Dreams

It's out there somewhere, the repository of billions upon billions of hopes and dreams.

Some of those hopes were for reasonable goals that were quite achievable - such as finishing up a degree with only one semester of college left, or completing a novel and only needing a chapter or two to finish.

Only to fall short of the necessary drive or ambition or self-discipline required.

Some of those dreams were not flights of fancy or wild, impossibly improbable aspirations - such as the vision of a new, larger home for a growing family or a new car to replace a beat-up old clunker.

Only to have the marriage fall apart or the loss of a job eliminating the funds necessary for the new endeavor.

Those are the kind of things that happen every single day.

And have been happening every single day since the dawn of time.