no more dreams

I used to think my dreams were right around the corner. If I just hold out, just work harder, just surround myself with wiser people, I can make it. Yeah, no. Sometimes you've got to ditch your dream. Or better yet, don't get started with one. I read a sign today saying "it's easier to stay well than to get well." That's wisdom. It's about prevention. There are better things to pursue than your dreams. Dreams may not kill you, but they'll keep you in prison your whole life until you realize that everyone close to you has ridden this roller coaster long enough and it's led to nowhere.

Try something old, like common work, which has much better odds at forming character than the sickened heart from hope deferred. Get rid of the romantic notion that dreams will fulfill you. They won't. In fact, most things in this world won't, not because they aren't things of worth and beauty and such, but because the human heart simply won't allow itself to be satisfied by anything less than the eternal. The heart was created, not to be attached to its quests, but to be inhabited by its Creator. This is the only way it can know true and lasting fulfillment.

So try it out. Lay down your dreams, your quests for happiness, even for a little while. If the dream comes back someday to find you, great. Deal with it then. After all, if it's really a dream, then it's a lot bigger than you, so it's not your call when it comes to pass. In the meantime, don't follow your heart, just check in with it. See if it's trying to attach to something or someone, or if it has some space to spare for its Creator. Fulfillment might be right around the corner.