Dreamkiller

[learnteach]

I've complained of this before, but it makes me wonder...what kills dreams? Familiarity and the day to day grind that turns workers in to grey salariman that so many creative youth fear? The fear itself of work, the uncertainty of the future? The saition (sp!) of early desires? The electronic chained daydream that is computer on line gaming?

Most of my dreams I've made real, in some way...and I know that many I could if I desired them. It' s not time nor talent I lack (indeed, one can develop the other) but passion. Where did it go? Did I lose it at work, broken in the day to day beating of the spirit over money (ok, then I must apply Biz Zen and throw the elephant). Is it in the online games, which constrain you to a developed vision? Is it in my choice of activites, of friends, of habits?

Or is it Age, daughter to cruel time, sneaking up on me?

Comments

[noressa.livejournal.com]

I'd say a re-evaluation of dreams. ^_^

I don't think that dreams die. They only change. And it's up to you to change with them. What was important at one stage in your life isn't going to carry the same import later. So, re-evaluate. Find out what you really want, and proceed from there. Yes, time is limited. Yes, you are not going to get 100% of the things done that you will want to. However. That shouldn't stop you from doing the things that are important. The dreams that make you happy. The ones that provide a new drive. If any! And if there is something you feel you can't complete to its fullest, then acheive it partially. Find a way to re-structure the dream to your life.
*hugs*

Sweet dreams....

[theredhead.livejournal.com]

I think it's mostly just reality rearing it's ugly head. Dreams are difficult and time consuming to achieve, requiring a great deal of effort, and reality seems to poke it's nose in and throw caltrops about far to often...

And I think it's getting *bapped!* on the nose too many times. We can only take so much before those dreams cna be beaten out of us in one way or another.

That said, don't gie up on the dreams. I find it a better option to consciously shelve them for awhile, rather than allowing them to be pummled beyond recognition.

*hugs*

-the redhead-
...fairly dreamless at this point...

[maestrateresa.livejournal.com]

Do passions dull, or do they rest
Lurking still in weary breast
For fuel that can re-ignite
Them, set the energies alight
Sending forth again the fire
Striving for that heart’s desire?
All the battles lost and won
By might of arms, or words alone
Serve to dull the sharpest blade.
World-numbed, your passions fade
And yet, I think, they still await
‘Til you can re-evaluate
What still works in your old dreams
And what’s no longer what it seems
What new causes to embrace,
Which new pathways you might trace.

*hug*

Not dead... just sleeping...

[greylady.livejournal.com]

Maybe you've just forgotten to look for them. Dreams don't have to be big, or life-definining. They just have to be special to you.

Find a little dream. Pursue it. Re-train yourself to look for dreams. Start small and remember, for each dream you attain, find or make a new one.

Passion

[vew.livejournal.com]

I think that you have a clue, passion is the key. Passion will help you get up and fight on days you do not want to.
Passion makes the bruises seem like badges of honour.
One of the things that drives passion is joy...

As one gets older and some of the lessons learned say you NO... that is not good... or YOU CAN NEVER HAVE YOUR DREAMS.. or any number of things... we protect ourselves so that we do not have to hurt, eating poorly, no exercise, or living in an on line game.

It takes courage and humour and many other things to keep our dreams alive in the face of everyone telling you that you will loose.....

Now sometimes dreams need to take a rest on the road to achieving them......look at your garden, it will teach you much, if you are willing to learn. Some folks never leave the rest period as it hurts too much. Others never take the time to learn the lessons of the road.

It sounds to me that you have reached the "dark night of the soul" the time when you must make a choice to give up or go for it. You have had this point before, but observation says you are not ready to make the leap of faith, find the resources and go down that road.

Three points- 1) DO it, Delegate IT or Drop IT

2) Use it or loose it-- someone suggested a small dream to help use those muscles.....Grand Idea...

3) IF you always think, what you always thought
YOU will always get, what you always got.

In other words you have friends that love and care, You make the choice....
It took me 13 years to come and chase one of my dreams and the support has come from some very different places.

Believe and Dream...

BTW, I did a project plan for my life and my dreams... man it was harsh... but it made me realize that the cost of one of my dreams was at the expense of another... so the question is what do you do and where does your heart really lead you...

My two cents...

[xot.livejournal.com]

What's real?
What is Truely important?
Nothing else matters.


The corus of an anwyyn (sp) song comes to mind:
come away to the hill,
coma away where the whine of life distills,
to the healing of your heart's ills,
come away, come away.

I'm confident that you've figured out that the online games are (mainly)just distractions? It's just like TV only newer. If you find you need to distract yourself too much from the rest of your life...

It was saint Einstein who said, "Imagination is more important than knoledge."

Somnio Feritur!