THE CLOCK IS TICKING, THE TIME IS NOW
A film by Dylan Wineland & Gareth Leah
Featuring: Gareth Leah | Director of Photography & Editor: Dylan Wineland | Color: Jensen Vinca | Assistant Camera: Samantha Cockayne, Bruce Wilson & Clark Aegerter
Icannot think of anyone in my life that does not possess a dream of some kind. For many, realizing those dreams often becomes a tug of war between everyday commitments and the chastising fear of failure in the pursuit of said dream. Lofty goals of climbing Everest, becoming a pilot, or building their own house, car, or motobike are often cast aside because “I don’t know how to” and are labelled as pipe dreams.
As a boy, my dream was to ride motorbikes. My parents didn’t much like the idea. They were “death machines” in their eyes. My dad had lost several friends to riding and recovered from a handful of bad accidents himself. One day I built up the courage to ask my Dad if I could have one. He told me “If you’re man enough to own a motorbike, you’re man enough to move out of home”. I understood the somewhat cryptic message he was telling me and not wanting to push the matter further, I locked the dream away in the back of my mind. That was until the morning of my 34th birthday.
That day, I sat down in my front room, closed my eyes, and tried to envision which of my dreams had I accomplished, which ones were left, and how long I had to accomplish them.
A sense that my time was escaping me consumed my thoughts. Life suddenly seemed finite. I felt that if I was to accomplish any of my dreams, I had to cast aside doubt, lack of knowledge, and apprehension, and lean into the unknown, just as I had as a boy.
No dreams left behind.
