Dreaming

Chapter 339

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly." ~ Langston Hughes

Hangin’ on to dreams is tougher than you might think. It feels like everything in life is aiming to crush your dreams and take them away from you. Both internal and external things. The external pressures of making a living and keeping your head above water is a dream smasher. I have a much better job than most and even I can still feel this one sometimes. But in the past I felt it all the time, and I think that many people are right there. Having their dreams smashed. But this does not have to remain. You can change jobs and you can change how you structure your life and you can make choices. Perhaps not big choices, but you can make choices. You can stand against the tide of dream smashers.

More insidious are the internal dream wreckers: inertia, selfishness, negative self-talk, feelings of unworthiness, self defeating thinking, self centeredness, small world narrow world, all these small and all these self-focused things make dreams unlikely. Make flying even less likely. These are the internal struggles that everyone faces eventually and some people face incessantly. Most find these more difficult to overcome than the external ones, which are usually large and easy to grasp, whereas these internal ones are such a part of our “normal” thinking, they are hard to recognize and harder to wrestle with.

So let your dreams help. Let your dreams free you from the bonds of external factors, and energize you to discover and face the internal factors that would want to keep you from flying.