We all dream. When we’re at sleep, or even awake, we think about the alternative reality or future where we accomplished our deepest desires, or simply improved our life. How many people can say that already accomplished their dreams? Quite few I presume. I believe that our dreams and expectations are gradually growing as we are. When we’re children our dreams are full of fantasy, heroes, and even the next day meals are part of our dreams. When we became older, our dreams mature just like us. When we began a new road (can be characterize, by the initiation of the college, or a new job), we start defining goals, our expectations became high and our dreams appear all of a sudden. If we accomplished to achieve our first goals, (that may correspond to some of our dreams), a new ones are created, evolving alongside with us, just like our dreams. The sad part of the story, is the disappointment of a broken dream. While we get old, our life experience increase, we start erasing the impossible dreams that were created long ago and or expectations became more restrained, because failure isn’t a new experience. We call it “being realistic”, and continue to dream in a cautious way, because we don´t wanna feel again the bitter taste of our broken dream.
Dreams can be about many things. Love, money, career, possession, are the type of the most common dreams, I now that, because I also have those types of dreams. In this 21th century, we kinda see a “turn our dreams reality industry” where the television itself works like a magic lamp. Reality shows are a constant, money shows are also very popular the only things I didn’t saw was love shows, but I guess they’re included in the reality shows (personally, I dislike those kind of shows).
Sometimes, when we taste the bitter taste of failure, we agreed with the quote, “a dream is called like that, by the simple fact that it can never become true”, but as soon as we raise from the fall, even if we totally believe in that quote, we can’t stop dreaming. We’ll silently keep walking and secretly continue to dream.
To finish this post, here’s a good hit from the 60’s of the Everly Brothers called Dream, that can perfectly work as a message in case of dreams of love :p.
Keep dreaming,
Rui Azevedo
