My First Dreams

When I was a teenager, before I knew about the Law of Attraction, I knew there were things I wanted to do, be, and have.  I had these things stuck in my head and I was determined that someday I would do, be, and have them.  At the time, being a teenager, I just didn't know how. At the top of my list were several specific things:  Visit Italy, drive a Taurus (that's my astrological sign and the name was the one reason I wanted one), own a cocker spaniel, see Bon Jovi in concert, and live in a home bigger than the one I grew up in.  Although there were several small goals I had, these were the big ones.  The ones I felt were my must have and must do.

That's when I met Eddie.  It was towards the end of my sophomore year in high school and I quickly fell head over heels in love with him and him with me.  He was 18 and I was 15.  I wasn't allowed to date until I turned 16, but Eddie patiently waited until the day he could take me out.  Until that day came, we saw each other at school, talked on the phone, and my mom occasionally took me to see him at McDonald's where he worked.

In 1990, the "in" thing for teenage girls to own was a Dooney & Bourke purse and I wanted one bad.  My parents had already said that they weren't going to buy me one and I was too young to work, so I couldn't buy it myself, but I still wanted to have one.  I knew exactly which purse I wanted, the color, the style, what I would put in it.  I imagined it all even though I had no idea how I would get it.

As my 16th birthday approached Eddie and I began talking about our upcoming official first date.  He planned to take me out to dinner that night.  I was so excited!  Neither of us could wait.  That evening when he came to pick me up he had a birthday gift for me.  It was the Dooney & Bourke purse I wanted.  The exact one.  Yes, I had told him I wanted the purse and showed it to him one day that we'd met at the mall, but I did not know that he was going to buy it for me.  As a matter of fact, on that trip to mall he'd said it was an expensive purse, but yet, he had still bought it for me.  I had a Dooney & Bourke purse.  My very own.  It was the first of many dreams Eddie helped come true.  I BELIEVE he was brought into my life to make the dreams I was wishing come true, and he did.