Dreams.
What are they?
Chinks of your
thoughts? Figments of imagination? Paths to be followed?
Everyone has their
own way of looking at dreams. There are interpreters who are of the belief that
dreams hold the key to our lives directly and are signals from our subconscious
about 'us'. Then there are people who dismiss them as being pure melodrama and
holding no meaning at all.
Some of us daydream
about things we should or shouldn't be thinking about, depending upon what the
subject is.
Then again there are
dreams pertaining to what we want to achieve in life. What we want to see
ourselves as. What we want to be. What we want to be seen as. The person.
The opinion on
dreams varies from a culture to another with people in my country mostly
dismissing them as being rubbish and not worth a thought.
Whatever we think
dreams to be, the truth is we all have them both when we are asleep and about
our lives in general. Some of us want to pursue them to the end and turn them
into reality. But as the general trend goes most people want to ignore their
dreams as being too higher tier and unachievable. We want to give up on them because that makes us feel like our own heroes to have 'sacrificed' a part
of us when it's no one but us who stands to lose. This is not real sacrifice at
all: all it is, is insulting your own subconscious.
Sometimes we think
we would have nothing to look forward to once our dream has been fulfilled and
that there will be left a gaping hole in its stead. That we won’t know what to
do with our life any more since the thing that was most on our minds is now done
with.
There is also the
fear of failure itself: the feeling that if we fail to achieve our life's goal,
we wouldn't be able to face ourselves in the mirror anymore, not be able to
look into our own eyes with shame.
Dreams are a gift
from God. They are sent to us for a reason: to discover ourselves.
They are meant to be
followed to the end since that gives us a sense of purpose and something to
channel all our energy towards. A true dream is not an end to something but the
beginning of a new venture. The start of a web of linked stories.
For dreams are a
part of who you are, and all of us are a story personified.
