“All [people] dream – but not equally. Those who dream by the night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous [people] for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.” – T.E. Lawrence.
If you have been given the gift of a dream, it is because it is meant to see the light of day. But it’s a scary thing to bring your dream into the daylight, because there we can see all the flaws, the weaknesses and gaps, the imperfections and scars of our goals.And we tend to see those marks as evidence of its impossibility. Hogwash! (Could you hear the other word I wanted to use?) Far from marking its impossibility,those marks simply show us the work that needs to be done. They might even be the marks of beauty, of life and the courage to live, like the chips in your fine china that only occur with loving use and that create those fond memories of sharing a meal with loved ones.
When you dream with your eyes wide open, you realize that dreams don’t come out fully formed and perfect. Dreams come out malleable and soft, ready to evolve, grow, take shape and, like a fine wine, get better with age. When dreams face the light of day they are tested and challenged, and sometimes they even get chipped or scratched. But these are the marks we come to love most as the dream ages, because that’s where we learned — and where we truly fell in love with the possibility, flawed or not.
