The dreams that we create for ourselves and our lives are so important. Having a dream can motivate us to take the steps needed to accomplish it. Dreams can give a shape and direction to our future lives and happiness.
We should all take time to dream. What goals would we like to achieve? What would truly make us happy? What sort of life would we like to experience?
As children we might have had many dreams of what we would be and what we would do when we “grow up”. No one lifetime would be long enough to fulfill all of these, so we choose one or two and try them out. Then life intervenes, as it always does, and we often must choose between our dreams and our present reality. When dreams conflict with reality, reality takes charge.
Or does it? Do dreams ever really die? If we once dreamed of being a dancer, isn’t there still a part of us that sees us on stage in a beautiful costume? Or we might have dreamed of being a doctor and saving lives. Our grades or finances might have prevented this dream from becoming real, or we might have discovered that we really don’t like icky sick people! But inside of us we see ourselves as a successful surgeon who would never faint at the sight of blood!
Ah, dreams or reality, which should we choose?
We live in whatever reality we have around us. This is not a bad thing. Reality is the way things are, right now. Comparing our reality with our dreams isn’t really fair to either one.
If we still have dreams that we haven’t accomplished, perhaps we should take a new look at them. Is there a part of our dream that we are already living? Is there a part of our dream that we are willing to work towards, even now?
Sometimes we find that our old dreams don’t really match with what we know about ourselves today. These old dreams can make us crazy and unhappy if we hold on to them. If we aren’t willing to work to make them real, maybe we should choose a completely new dream, one that we are willing to commit time and energy to making real.
One of the hardest dreams to let go of is the one of how our lives would be different if our dreams had come true. When we fall in love, we imagine how everything will be so perfect. We create a dream future with our dream mate. But what if our dream mate turns out to be not so dreamy after all? What if our dream life together doesn't happen? That dream future doesn't just go away, and if the relationship ends, we can find ourselves missing the dream more than the reality. We miss our dream mate more than the real person, we miss what could have been, more than what was. We can see this clearly if we think about it, but more often we never look at reality, instead we hold on to the dream that never was.
Perhaps it is time to dream again. Brush off your old dreams, examine them closely and keep the parts you still want. Make new dreams and try them out. Look at reality, yes of course, but let it be tinged with your dreams. Then take the first steps needed to see if you could make your dreams become real. This is the most powerful use of dreams - to lead us forward, not hold us back.
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