Give You Back a Dream
Is it any wonder I have spent most of my life living within a dream? My younger years were spent in a world that welcomed the day dreamer. Growing up in a small town can certainly assist with that. My childhood imagination ruled over a realm like few others. Television, video games or gadgets never spoiled this and for that I am thankful. My dream was one of an incredible ideal I systematically created over many years of being left alone with my finely crafted imagination. The people in my dream were kind, helpful, honest and caring. Outside the dream, people really seemed to be like that so it made sense they were the same within my reverie. I think of those days now with such emotion and sentimentality.
As I grew older, I learned that people outside my dream world were not as kind or as caring as they had first seemed. In fact the worst attributes of some of the worst people started to take a toll on what I thought was an impenetrable world. When I snapped out of my dream state and painted the world in a color not as rosy as the original color chosen, I found the ideal slowly drifting away. To date, all attempts to fix it completely have been in vain.
Today, age 42 I look back and think fondly of the dream. So much life has happened since the dream began in the open expanse of rural Wyoming but still my mind returns to the kinder and more care free days. I am an idealist to a fault or so I characterize myself. I love ‘love’ and all aspects of it. I can get teary eyed when I think of how John Lennon was killed. I can become deeply saddened by the injustices of the world. I long for days when we, all of us can look at one another without judgment, fear, resentment or jealousy. We are all we have but we are more than who we think we are.
I wish to give you back a dream, THE dream that so many have held dear since the dawn of civilized man. In these days when we seem to be moving forward in reverse I ask that perhaps strides can be made in genuine forward motions. As Aesop once said, no act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.