Dreaming Dreams that Dreamer's Never Dare to Dream

Do you remember the feeling you had as a child the day before a big game, a hot date, or vacation?  If you were like me, it was hard to sleep the night before.  Your mind would race through all possible outcomes and you would select a few of the best (hopefully) to dwell on.  That feeling is anticipation.  Those outcomes become expectation.

Invariably there are days when expectations turn to disappointments.  I think the first time this happened someone said 'You'll get em next time' and the second time they said 'Can't win em all.'  On and on it goes, a new cliche for every disappointment.  Soon we started to lower expectations.  We began to see things in a new light.  It was called many things; maturity, intelligence, reason and so on.  What if we rejected the words of comfort and dug our heals in?  Maybe people would use words like; determined, competitive, dreamer.

I hope to remind you that some of the worlds greatest advancements came from determined dreamers.  The telephone, the electric home, combustion engines, gasoline, division of labor (you can buy food...you don't have to hunt or grow it), the internet, automobiles, the interstate highway, space travel and on and on.  So forget the words meant to console and redirect your pain to dream again, dreaming dreams that dreamers never dare to dream!

"When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness." 

                                                                                         Tecumseh of the Shawnees