Dreams

I was asked to write about a day in my life that I will never forget; and since yesterday was World’s Book’s Day, I’m going to tell you about the day I had my first book published.

It was a Sunday. In the morning I went to church because it was Palm Sunday. The book ceremony was going to be early in the afternoon and we still had to set the place up. It was in a modern market in the centre of the city and all of my friends and family were going to be there so I was pretty nervous about it.

I had thought a lot about what I was going to say but I still had no clue what was right to say.

So after a quick lunch we arrived to the market and started putting everything in the right place. My sister and her friends were going to do a ballet dance in the beginning so they were practicing in a corner. My choir was going to sing in the end so they were setting the keyboard and warming up. The rest of the people were arriving and all of them wanted to talk to me and congratulate me and ask me if I was nervous or not.

I obviously was.

The truth is that my book is a little bit shocking, specially knowing that a 15-year-old girl wrote it. And I sometimes thought that people wouldn’t like it and were going to start thinking bad things about me – I didn’t want that to happen.  Through the entire book editing process I told myself that that was a good book and nothing else mattered besides my dream coming true. But that day it was all too real. Everyone was going to read my book, my thoughts, my characters and my story. I was really scared.

Bur the time came and the ceremony started with the ballet, and then with the editor talking and with my guest talking about me and the book.

My turn to talk came and I hadn’t a single word ready to say.

But in the audience everyone was smiling proudly at me. I felt amazing. So I just spoke like I usually do. I was myself and I said everything I was scared to say and I tried to inspire everyone that was in that place to see MY masterpiece. MY work.

In the end, everyone clapped, questions were asked, answers were given, photos were taken and books were bought and signed. I sang with my choir to finish the ceremony and I couldn’t be happier.

The message I want to pass with this is that you can make your dreams come true. And even if others say that it’s stupid and ridiculous, you should fight for it. Don’t be scared to show what you can do because you can do it. Most people that judge you can’t do it as well as you can.

You’re bigger than humanity and your dreams are bigger than this world. They should be, at least. So do it. And don’t wait. I wrote a book at fifteen, because I didn’t know if I could wait. None of us do. Nobody knows what’s waiting for us so hold on to your dreams. They’re strong and so are you.

I trust you.