Dream on

Did you have a dream when you were a kid? Do you still have a dream you haven't yet achieved? My youngest daughter did, she still does. From the time she started at a school for performing arts aged seven, she knew she wanted to be an actress. The funny thing is no one else would believe her, with the exception of her family. When asked "what you want to be when you leave school?", she'd say 'actress' and the friends' parents, family members, people she met regularly, teachers, whoever it was, would always say "okay, so what's your backup plan?"

Makenna never had a back-up plan, even when she got A stars at A level she didn't bow to pressure to go to university to study drama. She knew that, for her, learning on the job was the best option.  And having a back-up plan was tantamount to admitting that she wouldn't get where she wanted to be. 

She's been learning her craft since she left school and this year she's really gone out there, worked hard and reaped amazing rewards. Next week she's attending (with me and her dad in tow as her ' crumbly entourage'!) her first red carpet premiere in Los Angeles for a film in which she plays one of the leads. Seeing my baby girl on a cinema screen is going to be quite something, I'm so proud of her I'm having to go and buy waterproof mascara ;)  But what I'm most proud of is that she didn't get swayed by the naysayers, by society's expectations of her, by her school pushing her to take a different route, she held fast to her dream through knock backs and rejections and now she's on her way.

She's just started a blog to share her journey - you can find it here

http://makennaguyler.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/errrrr-hi.html

Do you have a dream you haven't yet achieved? If so, all I can say to that is dream on.