as children we all have dreams of the kind of person we want to be when we grow up. many choose occupations like being a firefighter, police officer, lawyers, doctors, famous athletics, and the list can go on and on. for me i wanted to be a lawyer so badly. i watched shows like law and order trying to mimic the characters hoping that one day i could grow up and fight for something or someone, that i could bring justice into the world. i idled people like my uncle jim without really knowing why other than the fact that he was a lawyer and in my mind was a huge successful man (which he is). but somewhere along the way i either grew out of my dream or i felt like something better came along. now being almost 23 i honestly don't know what my dream is anymore.
dreams have always fascinated me, whether daydreaming or dreaming at night. i have no clue why. i think the biggest explanation is probably dreaming allowed me to escape into another "world." a world that didn't have hurts or pains, that i could always be that little girl with no cares to the world around me. recently dreams have been what has consumed my every sleeping moment. which has lead me into actually seeing if this was normal, or if there was something wrong with me that i could fix.
see what i didn't realize is that in order to survive your brain needs to dream. it is what helps the brain digest everything that is going on in our everyday lives, it helps to process the joys, and the overwhelming times in life. without dreaming our brains would literally turn into mush. just like the heart the brain has to stay active for our survival. and while most people "don't remember" their dreams everyone dreams every single night. what most people don't also know is that when they say that they don't dream it is from either repression, stress, or ignoring the dream that gives us those feelings.
what i'm trying to get at i guess is that dreams are essential to our lives. it's how we allow ourselves to move forward. so challenge question: what are your dreams? is it that new house, car, job, future, or is it that dream that seems impossible to everyone around you? what most people don't know is that those wealthy billionaires, or those people that we look up to so much, started their companies on dreams. happy dreaming...
