In the movie, Sweet November with Keanu Reeves, the female protagonist says, "Tell me your secret dream. Come on, everyone must have one." The statement struck me, like a slap in the face, as being as some sort of ideal.
I think some of us are afraid to dream. There are others in this world, whose lives do not permit them to dream -- due to poverty, hunger, terror, war, and other abuses against our humanity. There are others who have lost all hope thereby lost their will to dream. Others, like myself, learned to dream backwards. I dreamed about what things I should have done differently. I dreamed about what my life would have been like had I made other choices. Yet with the adage:
I think some of us are afraid to dream. There are others in this world, whose lives do not permit them to dream -- due to poverty, hunger, terror, war, and other abuses against our humanity. There are others who have lost all hope thereby lost their will to dream. Others, like myself, learned to dream backwards. I dreamed about what things I should have done differently. I dreamed about what my life would have been like had I made other choices. Yet with the adage:
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forward";
it has only been in the past 2 weeks that it dawned on me that I could dream forward as well.
Of course, those who know me as a planner may find it strange that I am only now imagining the possibilities of dreaming big for my future. These same people who see me as a globe trekker interested in exploring new places, only limited by funding! But honestly, until now, my focus has been taking calculated risks. Even when the upside potential of the risk was low, I would measure both sides and prepare myself for whichever life threw at me. But what I realized, what I saw, is that if I gave up the best of my planning techniques and allowed myself to be opened to the cosmos. The results would be far greater, and far more surprising, than anything I could plan for myself.
Of course, those who know me as a planner may find it strange that I am only now imagining the possibilities of dreaming big for my future. These same people who see me as a globe trekker interested in exploring new places, only limited by funding! But honestly, until now, my focus has been taking calculated risks. Even when the upside potential of the risk was low, I would measure both sides and prepare myself for whichever life threw at me. But what I realized, what I saw, is that if I gave up the best of my planning techniques and allowed myself to be opened to the cosmos. The results would be far greater, and far more surprising, than anything I could plan for myself.
Thus, with an open heart, I ask the cosmos, what is my secret dream?
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