Thinking Big...Man and a mountain

This might sound contradictory to my earlier post but its not. It is just a continuation of the same theme. Just this other day, I met Dave who has been McGraw-Hill rep for Midwest for the past 10 years. He had gone for a vacation across the Dakotas, Minnesota, Montana, Idaho and Washington practically the entire belt from Mid America to Northwest Badlands.... I asked him what was his most important memory and he did not hesitate to say the Crazy Horse memorial... I had heard about this but my recollection was a bit rusty. Then he told me the story of how chief Raging Bull had tasked Korczak Ziolkowski a sculptor, to create a monument that will show the white man that even the red man has heroes. Ziolkowski was about 40 then decided to build the monument except he did not have governmental or any kind of institutional support. All he had was a mountain site to work on...He set to work...to carve a mountain on his own. People mocked him initially but he refused to give up. He dedicated his entire life... 36 years to single handedly carving the largest sculpture ever made by man. He asked neither money nor volunteers. He started with a chisel and continued with whatever people donated to him. Today the monument he started is still evolving and Korczak's children continue work on this monument...It is expected to be completed by the middle of the twenty-first century. It is a remarkable story of dream in action. Dave showed me a piece of rock he and his wife had taken as a souvenir. I wondered what makes some people dream about things they never can achieve in their lifetime? Most wouldn’t even climb the 700 steps to reach the rock face, but not Korczak he would walk back to and fro to start his vintage generator when it died on him which was almost 3-4 times a day...He never gave up on his vision even when it seemed to take forever.... A similar story I read was about Webster. He thought it might take him 2 years at the most to compile a book with every single word in English. Even when the work stretched on for decades, he never gave up always driven by a sense of optimism. Eventually Webster's dictionary was completed after a span of almost two generations...
What makes some people dream of things so big? It is not the destination...it is the journey.