Life is but a dream..

[darren_stranger]

After the last post's mention of lack of life and general not-having-anything-interesting-to-write-aboutness, i found myself dwelling on the following words in Morgan's journal:

"I look around me and everywhere I see there are people reaching for their dreams. Some of them are fighting hard right now to make sure they can fight for their dreams again another day, and that's the most beautiful thing. You out there, the singers, dancers, writers, teachers, the ones struggling with your PhD's, or recondite novels, or metalwork, or ninjitsu, or juggling, or miracle making, you are LIVING, not merely passing time."

It struck me that my main problem is that i don't have a dream.

Damn it, i've got to get me one of those.

Comments

[greylock.livejournal.com]

Let me know if you find a spare one.

[usekh.livejournal.com]

You know I feel exactly the same way. I see people who have less money than me, but they have a dream they are striving for, and I wonder if their lives are better than mine because of it.

[andricongirl.livejournal.com]

nod *sigh*

[http://users.livejournal.com/raven_/]

What everyone else said.

*sigh*

I don't even know what I want to be when I grow up.

[p-cat.livejournal.com]

Sweetheart, I think you were one of the people that Morgan was referring to :)

It doesn't matter if you don't know what you want to be when you grow up (probably because there is no final destination - your answer is not 'locked in'!)

You're doing amazing work right now. It doesn't have to define you for the rest of your life, but you're lucky to be doing something so meaningful.

Things like call-centre work or mindnumbing corporate slavery need to be a means to an end (even if that end is just having enough money to get by so you can spend time with loved ones or doing non-revenue-raising things that you care about) otherwise you go insane. I know - I've been there! It took me a long time to work out what I wanted to do - now I just have to get through the drudgery of getting enough experience to be even considered to do more interesting work.

[caseopaya.livejournal.com]

Have to agree with you and everyone elses comments....

What's a dream/goal??

*sighs along with the others*

[strang-er.livejournal.com]

Maybe we should all make it our goal to find a dream..

[caseopaya.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a good idea!!! Where do we start though :)

[strang-er.livejournal.com]

Maybe what tcpip and smilesnspiders said..

[caseopaya.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but it always seems to be difficult (for me anyway) to find anything I feel truly passionate about and what drives me.... does that make sense?

[smilesnspiders.livejournal.com]

What is a dream but a goal and your goal may be getting up and facing another day or it may be saving the world from itself - no matter how grand your goal is, it is having that gaol that makes the difference and keeping that goal alive in your head. To know the direction in which you want to head is a great thing indeed - but it all starts with one step at a time. And life is fluid, those goals/dreams need to be able to flex and change with you and the world that influences them...

Perhaps you could ask what your goals are, starting from your goal in the next hour, the next day, by the end of the month, for the year, for the next five years...you may find that you do have a dream - a direction into which you can put your energies. But it may just be a goal for the day that you are up to - I know I lived for nearly two years with the simple goal of getting up in te mornings to feed my dog and staying around all day to make sure he was safely asleep and comfy. From that grew more goals, further steps. You just need to know where to look for them - inside you (-:

I know - I waffle on sometimes (-;

[strang-er.livejournal.com]

i like goals, and try to always have some. But to me a dream seems to imply something more. Something passionate and driving.

Maybe that's what i'm saying - i want to feel passionate about doing something. Passion is life.

From some of the responses here, i guess i'm not the only one who feels that way.

[strang-er.livejournal.com]

Re-reading what you wrote reminded me of something Scorpiogrrl wrote a while back:

.."in summary, just get out there and do it (work out what it is first and dont worry if 'it' changes frequently) cos you dont know what tomorrow will bring and you cant get back today. it doesn't have to take a life-changing event does it?"

Perhaps (like i wrote at the time) i just need to work out what "it" is.

Maybe i should print all this out and put it on a wall somewhere to keep reminding me..

[smilesnspiders.livejournal.com]

Scorpiogrrl hit the nail on the head. Passion for everyone is different and what makes one feel passion could be snooze material for another.

My dream, my goal is to build a home with my partner with our own hands and to make that home as ecologically sound and responsible as we can. There are lots of little steps to be made on the way to achieving this goal and the travel is half of the attraction.

How well do you know yourself? What do you do that makes you feel good? What are you really good at?

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

1. Locate something about the world which you don't like. Think big.
2. Work out a plan by which you can fix The Thing.
3. Do it.
4. Keep going.
5. No really, don't give up. Keep going.

[belegdel.livejournal.com]

You could always dream about having a dream.
Then you can find your dream and achieve it all in one compact experience.After that, being all practised at this dream thing, move on to something else.