We generally think of a dreamer as an unrealistic person.
You know: not practical.
He (or she) is just a dreamer, people say of someone,
implying that they will amount to nothing.
I have always been a dreamer.
Some have wondered if my dreams would ever “amount to” anything.
I was called “unrealistic.”
One time still makes me laugh, because I was the one who said it.
I was at a family wedding decades ago,
and for some unknown reason
dropped this comment into a conversation:
“I don’t have a realistic bone in my body,” I said with a smile.
The relative I was talking with, a very wealthy man,
looked me in the eyes and stated: “It shows.”
You’d think that would have discouraged me.
It didn’t.
I kept right on dreaming.
Thank God I did, or I never would have gotten to live my dreams.
I am living one of my dreams right now, as I write to you.
How about you?
Are you a dreamer?
Do you ever hear a bully (in reality or in your head)
trying to shame you by telling you: Be realistic!
Dolly Parton is a dreamer.
I think she imagined herself, don’t you?
I mean, who else could have come up with
who that woman is!!!
And look how she makes her dreams real.
She takes her love, her talent, and her imagination
and transforms the world.
She has transformed the backwoods community she grew up in
from a severely limiting place
into a place where the sky is the limit.
I know. I saw it. I spent several days there last Christmas.
She recently wrote a book called Dream More.
I brought a copy home with me.
In it she urges all of us to dream more,
learn more,
care more,
BE more.
How’s that for beautiful?
Dolly was a young girl back in the 60’s
when those Kennedy dreamers, JFK and RFK,
were our leaders.
Back then, RFK declared:
Some men see things as they are, and say why.
I dream of things that never were, and say why not.
Can’t you just hear little Dolly saying to herself:
“Yeah, and some women dream of things that never were, too!”
Right now maybe you are saying to yourself:
“Yeah, but how can I ever be anything like Dolly, or RFK???”
Be yourself
Actually, you don’t need to be like them.
You just need to be yourself.
And give yourself permission to dream.
It is never too late.
Now is the perfect time
to give yourself permission to dream a new dream.
Or one you’ve had all your life.
Then surprise yourself
by making just a little piece of that dream real.
You have it in you.
There is always more inside you than you realize.
My dreams
I live on my dreams.
They sustain me, because I am always
having to grow to reach toward them.
For example, for many years I have had a dream
of getting up on stage and speaking to a huge audience.
To give myself a little piece of my dream,
I’m going to videotape myself speaking
and put it up on my website or YouTube!
Who knows haha—somebody might listen.
But this dreamer will be happy even if they don’t.
Dr. Hall
Question:
When you think about your dreams,
can you imagine giving yourself a little piece of one?
Deborah,
This is a beautiful piece.
Are we Limited by the extent of our dreams or are they stepping stones to something much nicer, much greater or much more purposeful?
I love this topic! I consider myself a dreamer, and there are days I long for more time in my schedule to just spend day dreaming. Many of my Beloved and my life objectives have been realized by each of us imagining our next path forward as a blank canvas, and how do we wish to color or fill that canvas for our future together. It helps us to prioritize our current values and the path forward together. What steps we need to take to complete that picture.