This is the phrase I have been pondering lately; the cliché that appears through Hollywood films and on the lips idealists and optimists everywhere.
It’s a phrase that seems to say so much, yet unless one knows how to dream, it really means nothing.
And I am not all that convinced many of us do know how to dream.
Often in this context one might receive advice such as ‘Don’t let anything stop you’, or indeed, ‘Don’t let anyone stop you’. But what if you have no dream? How does one find a dream to follow?
What rarely seems to be discussed is that perhaps the biggest obstacle to having a dream and achieving it is ourselves. We never get to the dreaming stage because we want to know the dream we pursue is right for us. We don’t want to waste our time on the ‘wrong’ dream.
What we don’t seem to understand is that there are no wrong dreams. It is not the dream itself that matters, it is having a dream that is important and especially, choosing not to doubt it.
No one can objectively decide upon their ability to achieve a dream, there are far too many unknowns between now and the point where the dream is attained. Why bother to question it? If to imagine attaining your dream makes you feel good, then allow that power to take you.
It is the surrendering to the possibilities, the good and the bad, the forces of nature, without resistance, that is the essence of dreaming.
Like a canoeist rowing downstream, we merely stabilize ourselves in the irreversible current of life. If we remain conscious, we can ensure we avoid the rocks, drifting safely through the rapids and out in to an Ocean Sunset. The longer we choose to row against the current, the greater the likelihood we hit the rocks.
Allow yourself to drift, allow yourself to daydream, allow yourself to feel good about your dreams.
Never question why.
Only how?
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