What is Your Purpose for Dreaming Big, Little or Dreaming at all?

> My dinner partner stated, point blank,
> "If you have people who you are
> depending on you, you can't have dreams. You
> just have to live."

> And my response was, "It is precisely
> FOR those people that you MUST continue to
> dream. If your ability to dream dies, what
> do you teach those you love?"

Julie, I agree fully with you.... You MUST continue to dream, for the sake of those you love....

And it is important for them to have THEIR hopes, their dreams, their ambitions too....

I think children probably follow what you DO before they follow what you SAY, so it is important to be a good example! :) It's not enough to tell them "do this, do that" when you're not doing it yourself.... And I believe that's true in pursuit of your dreams.... :)

Though Dan's point was an excellent one, your dreams ought to have some balance and not be completely selfish ones. Perhaps that's what your dinner partner meant?

I believe strongly in the power of dreams.... Sometimes, in my life, I've been criticized for being a "day-dreamer" just living in my "day-dreams".

Yet, it's because of those day-dreams I've managed to have many experiences I never would have had before.... Those day-dreams led me there, and I'm grateful for that. Sowpub itself you could say is the result of a dream.... Thank goodness for those day-dreams! :)

When I was a kid, my parents used to sometimes listen to an Everly Brothers cassette, and I liked it too....

One of their songs was "All I have to do is dream"....

Gosh, I haven't heard the Everly Brothers for probably a couple decades! I think I might go and buy myself a CD.... :)

Thanks Julie for a fascinating topic! :)

Dien Rice