Every day we are constantly bombarded by direction. Work hard. Pay attention to what you’re doing. Stay Grounded. We are told what is good for us and what is bad for us, which behaviors are acceptable and which behaviors are not. Slowly, the rules of society become established in us as we journey to adulthood, and we are told that we can do anything we want, (so long as it abides by the rules.) We conform our ways of thinking to an accepted standard, a code of conduct, without even realizing it. We get comfortable with our established concept of reality, and we don’t like to change our understanding of it. When an idea comes along that contradicts that standardized way of thinking, it is often met with skepticism, intolerance and outright rejection. “You’re dreaming, get your head out of the clouds” they would say, “go do something useful.” And just like that, a dream can be shattered. The probability of any one dream creating a useful contribution to society is not very high, but we can not say which ideas will contribute to the future. Many dreams have been lost right from the beginning, while some manage to limp along for decades to only be fully realized for their contributions long after their creators have passed. What if we could skip that phase? What if we were to embrace these dreams as real possibilities right from their inception? For the sake of our future, we should treat our dreams as real possibilities that have the potential to become reality.
