Living The American Dream on Four Wheels

Who would believe it?  Who would believe it, if I "stood" on a stage sitting comfortably in my wheelchair and remembering to keep my posture erect in front of 1000 people and said:  Hello, I'm Camile and today I can affirm that I live the proverbial American Dream.  This beautiful titanium chair that carries me around has been the catalyst of my pursuing my innermost dreams.

Would you believe it?

The truth is, it doesn't matter.  It really has no effect on my journey whether or not the idea of living the dream the way that I am living mine matches anyone else's.  Although, I struggled with that same idea myself when I was still digesting the idea of not walking ever again.  What about my dreams?

Turned out the dreams I had before were not the least bit congruent to who I am, who I strive to be.  They didn't match my highest purpose, which intrinsically has not changed since I first understood that one day I'd grow up to be an adult and had to decide what it was I wanted to do.

You see, my life has been a ripple effect of events (some are considered wonderful, and others very tragic by the masses) that has unequivocally led me to my truest, authentic path.

The death of my father, living without my mother for 2 1/2 years, moving to a different country, making life-long friends, getting married and eventually divorced, working as a Police Officer, becoming paralyzed, enduring life-threatening injuries, re-creating myself, becoming a mother, diving head first into my dream life, studying under Dr. Demartini, learning, living, shifting paradigms...

As I sat with my grandfather watching Hollywood classics such as Gone With The Wind, The Wizard Of Oz, Singing In The Rain, The Sound Of Music, Superman I II III, Close Encounters of The Third Kind, and many others.. I always watched in awe as I wondered what amazingly creative minds could write and put such powerful, inspirational stories on screen and make the viewer feel as if they were going through the ups and downs of the plot with the characters in the story.  I secretly dreamed to be a story teller who could inspire thousands, maybe millions of people across the world.

Today, I am.  I am living my dream.  On four wheels.  I am living it.