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“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one...”
~~John Lennon, Imagine~~
Dreamer
By Eden Robins
Dreams.
I cherish them. I ponder them, and I hold them tight against my chest for fear of losing them.
I have lost them before, actually. Lost them, then stumbled out of the darkness and found them again. And once I did, I knew with a gut wrenching certainty that I must never, ever let them get lost again. Because, ironically enough, I know that it’s only when I hold tight to those dreams that I’m truly awake, that I’m truly living with my eyes wide open and living in the present.
I’ve been asked, lectured and scolded about being a dreamer. I’ve been judged, dismissed and felt sorry because of that inclination. I’ve angered, disgusted and scared people away because I dare to dream. Yet dreaming is an integral part of me; a piece of me that essentially makes me who I am. Without dreams I don’t know how I’d have survived some events in my past, how I sometimes make it through a certain day, or how I’d be able to look forward, to the future.
Dreams expand my world. They open paths up for me to take new directions, or keep me on the same one, depending on the situation. They give me hope for the people I love, my community and the entire world. And they keep me sane.
After one of many wonderful conversations a friend of mine and I often share, she came out and suddenly asked me, “You really are a dreamer, aren’t you?”
I thought she had known that all alone. I thought she understood.
Maybe she does, but my friend asked me that question in a way that wasn’t necessarily positive or supportive. It wasn’t particularly critical or judgmental either. It was more like, as she said it, she looked at me in the curious way someone might study an unusual looking animal, insect, or an alien from another world.
While I simply nodded and calmly replied, “Yes, I am a dreamer. I’ve always been a dreamer”, my mind was screaming out with joy. “Yes! I dream! I’ll always dream! Of course I’m a dreamer!”
And I’m not the only one...
~Eleanor Roosevelt
“Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.”
~Black Elk
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.”
~Richard M. DeVos
“When I look into the future, it’s so bright it burns my eyes.”
~Oprah Winfrey
“Let’s drink a toast to folly and to dreams, because they are...the only reasonable things.”
~Paul-Loup Sulitzer, The Green King
“A very great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky.”
~Crazy Horse
“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.“
~Richard Bach
“What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
~Napoleon Hill
“It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.”
~Erma Bombeck
“Passions are wired into the real world more directly than our workday routines are. If you love something, you’ll bring so much of yourself to it that it will create your future.” ~Francis Ford Coppola
“Goals are dreams with deadlines.”
~Diana Scharf Hunt
“I think one of the first things to go as people’s lives start to go down is their dreams. Dreams should be the last thing to go—dreams are the things you go down with. If you’re left clinging to a piece of driftwood in the middle of the ocean, I’d put on it the word dreams.”
~Kevin Costner
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them”
~Walt Disney
“I dream my painting and then paint my dream.”
~Vincent Van Goghv
“A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.”
~Charles M. Schwab
“Nothing happens unless first a dream.”
~Carl Sandburg
“We’ve got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.”
~Denis Waitley
“Dream On, Dream On, Dream On...Dream until your dreams come true”
~Aerosmith, Dream On
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“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
~Les Brown
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MY WAKE UP HOMEWORK:
I will always be dreamer. Dreaming is important. Dreaming, strangely enough, keeps me awake and present in this life. Dreaming keeps me in the moment while at the same time keeping me on my path into the future. It helps me remember what’s important. It helps me remember who I am. It helps me remember where I’m going. Dream on...
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