Living in Reality

BE A DREAMER

reach out boldly child

into the heavens 

grab a star 

let it roll around 

in the palm of

your hand a little... 

smile

laugh 

giggle some 

let it energize you 

inspire 

mesmerizing too... 

when it disappears 

you are left grasping 

for its memories.

 

December 6, 2024

When we are young, this is easy to imagine, spending one's almost entire day in this fantasy...

In high school, it begins to fade, even more in college (if one attends), and gone completely before one is thirty.

Oftentimes, it returns in one's seventies or eighties but hardly ever before unless you are creative, an artist, or a writer of sorts.

WHY?

• We live in the reality of the moment, the way our culture and society demand that it be lived...
• We have rules and protocols, methods, procedures, and laws.
• We are respected and well to do, trying not to draw too much attention to ourselves.
• We are told not to out of line or out of step with our own kinds of people.

What a shame that we live in that kind of a reality. What a shame it is how much of life that we are missing, because we no longer dream or fantasize.