MAKING a dream come true!

She may "only" have been in 16th place but in that 10 kilometre swim in Beijing today Natalie du Toit finished just 1min22sec outside of the winning time of 1hr59min27,7sec.   

What a fantastic performance and what a powerful example that dreams can come true - if you truly want them to.

As a child I dreamt of, one day, Mount Everest and will never forget how I felt, aged 25, on being selected for the 1996 SA Everest expedition.  Natalie says her dream of participating in an Olympics began when she was just 6 and today, 18yrs later, her dream became reality.   There were lots of hurdles in those 18 years, not least of which was her leg being amputated, but I feel that what separates the Natalies from the rest of us is whether the dream is just a dream or whether we're prepared to do whatever it takes to make that dream come true.
I believe that however high the mountain there is always a way up and Natalie was able to find that way up, to transform her dream into a belief and do whatever it took to make it happen.  
In her own words "you have to keep your dreams and never give them up".   That's exactly what she's done and, in the process, proven beyond doubt that you can make your dreams come true.

(Photo it.eurosport.yahoo.com)