"He had arranged to have himself fired because he wanted to spend more time looking for gold. He had all sorts of plans to make money, she added, inventions he was working on, odd jobs he had lined up." pg. 67. This quote is all about chasing your dreams and letting nothing stand in your way.
To chase his dream of finding gold he had to give up a seemingly perfectly good life to chase down his goals of striking it rich. One thing that I have learned from Rex Walls is that it doesn't matter how good your life is; it isn't fulfilled until your dream is achieved. I believe that we are all guilty of not chasing down or dreams and constantly making compromises until what we end up with is nothing like what set out to do. One of the main factors to this is that some of us let money get in the way. Rex gave up his well paying job in order to put all his time into inventing his prospector. My dream has always been to be a heli-ski guide but the direction I'm heading it seems like my dream will never happen. Instead I plan to do the safer career path and go to school and get a well paying job. This is a personal example of how money got in the way and not taking the first step of to pursue it. To chase your dreams some risks have to be taken. Rex walls knew this and had many obstacles to over come. It is clear that he will give anything to achieve it and never look back. He has devoted his life to achieving his goal showing us how to live for our dream as well.
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