The Possible Dream

The Possible Dream arrives when you are willing to not only visualize it, but put it together piece by piece. You have to have the picture of it - yes, but what good is only a picture? It is just one-dimensional and will only decorate a wall (or a drawer) unless it is made into something dynamic, until it becomes the film of your life.

There is some small comfort, I know, in what we already know, in the picture on the wall (or in the drawer). It is safe, it is at least more comfortable than the itchy, too tight fit of the new, it is visible from the armchair without even flexing a muscle. But it's not enough. Just a stir stick, mucking up the passion inside but never allowing it freedom to reign.

The visualization, the prayer, the meditation - they are what compose the mind, bring up all the possibilities, show you the blockages and give you the opportunity to map out the path, but the work remains. You still have to get up, find the pieces in the scavenger hunt of something new and reinvent the life you dream. You have to poke holes in the comfort so the pent up steam of your passion has room to escape and blow the cap off old comfort to create the new. You have to do the work, sweat and swear and sweat some more, and trudge and trudge until you can walk, and walk and walk until you can run and until the dream is made possible.

The Possible Dream is the one that you have made. Life will have it no other way. Get going.

Blessings.
- Darshan

© 2009 Darshan F Jessop