Forgotten Dreams 4/9/16

Forgotten Dreams 4-9-16

We all had dream when we were small, we dream being a great doctor, fireman or nurse. We mimicked what we were going be as we play with friends. Some of played cooking, or played as greater build, it did matter what we building except that we were playing. You may have told your parents that I am going great …. Person when I grow up. How far from our dreams did we, become. We remember moments taking care of people, they may have been in the form of dolls or toys. Are bikes were the wheels that took beyond the boundary of our imagination. We climb trees to see beyond of view of the world within our own back yard. Sticks were swords and the woods and creek were the magically land of beyond. Playing man hunt was as excited to know that could hide beyond the light, hiding in the darkest from people. 

Our dreams were real, as real as we played. Dreaming meant that nothing could stop us. The only limits were when we have to go home with the lights came on and the darkness fell beyond our view. We followed these dreams until some point that it was not so cool to play anymore, we wanted to be like the people who were doing things away from the safely of our parents eyes. We started to forget that we had dreams and that playing was part of the dream that we started for ourselves. 

We became aware that there was more beyond the reach of our view. So slowly, we stopped pretending that we could be anything or take risks for the adventure of traveling outside comforts our home. We had started to grow up because that was expected for us. It was no longer ok to dream about the adventures or becoming who we were meant to be, life was serious and we need to adjust. How many times did our parent explain that it not all fun and games, things need to get done! 

We needed to be serious, playing was for little kids, and we needed to do this or that before anything else. Or maybe to needed to mind your sibling or be were our parents could not be. Some may have been done to keep you safe others to keep you busy or maybe you free to choose what you did because the people who should be busy guiding you, were busy trying to keep their own balance in a world that is ever changing. 

What if you became lost in the mix of life and there was no one to guide and reel you in, when you’re stepped so far out of comfort area. What about the times that you felt so controlled that you rebel at the life the no longer fit your view? Were you may just want to going and doing things that your friends were doing. May you pushed so hard against what was happening around you that you misjudged what was expected of you. You may have worked really hard to hold onto your dreams or they disappeared from your conscious, because that was not reality that you were living.

Things had changed, you had changed. You were no longer that child with a dream bigger than life itself. You were caught in the next phrase of life that test the limits of what you could do. You wanted the freedom to create or maybe you chase the fantasy of work, marriage, child and having success at the hand of another. See this world has a way of letting us know that unless were doing like everyone were not complete. Were not moving in direction that benefits us. If were expressing by gender were meant to marriage and as male show our power of being manly, when in fact that same opportunity are presented to both. With the Exception that were taught from earlier age that were not meant to just be who/whom we are.

Were forced to address what side we pick. If you ask a little girl what their supposed to be, than what they want, it is very difference than what a little boy see for himself. Are roles are formed in ways very different, than we saw for yourselves. Now we live in very difference world these days, dreams play out by titles, money and who you know or what you know verse seeing people as who they are, people, human and that we all had the same dreams of creating a world for ourselves and people in it. 

When we were small we did not see people as difference, unless we saw something that we did not have a reference point for us. We did see people as different, we felt the way people interacted with people as different. And as children do we asked questions as to why and hopefully parents answer with an open respond to allow you to understanding. We did not divide people, or say things that would be considered bias by all means. We were allow to see who they were for how, it was presented. 

Along the way we became “self” important, and forgot to realize that we all had dreams and those dreams were big deals and things to us. We been forced to separate ourselves from our neighbor or people. The connection that brought us our dreams of playing remains in our minds filed away in part of our brain and hearts. We know that we capable of loving, because otherwise we would not love at all. But yet, we allow the people, family, friends and society to tell us that we are difference. We teach it, we talk about it and even confronted because we want to be seen as difference and that were not like other people. 

We say things like I am not capable becoming like them. That we don’t do things like them. The fact is we are like them and they are like us, you, me and everyone one else on the planet. We all had dreams that we expected to achieve in this life and tried our best to attain. True attainment come from wisdom of looking inside yourself and saying Hey, they are just like me on a different journey of life and realized that you have, had dreams that allow you to have what you have now and that we all are like a children, with dreams of being and doing exactly what we set out to do: good, wrong, indifferent we are our parents, neighbor and friends. If you dream as not awoken, you may in fact, be your live in someone else dream. Is what you created for yourself truly your dream or are living out the expectation, which others had for you. Remember a child know what he/or she came here to do. Ask your - self what did I really want to do in this life time? You might be really surprised what that answer is for you!