Running Water and Dreams
Lol, no. Not THAT kinda dream. Read further..
btw, this smart phone age totally let’s us digitally think out loud. it’s no wonder we always tend to RT/ reblog those random, witty jpg with those quotes and images only kids born in the 1980s would understand… however, there’s still always something humbling about being able to come back to desktop and keyboard. did u catch that pen-and-paper analogy?
Anyway, my random thought:
There’s this feeling you get when your heart sinks and your jaw drops open the moment you realize that you’ve left the sink running. Or you’ve left the stove on all day. Or you forgot to feed the dog. You forgot to call your boss. You left your damn phone on the Bart!!! Yes, we are all too familiar with this feeling. It’s when all of our 5 senses and our mind/ body/ soul refocus all their energies to adverting said crisis. There’s an urgency that triggers our adrenaline, heightening our desire to accomplish incredibly grand missions and we re-prioritize our lives to put the problem on the top of our list. I.e. driving an hour home from work just to turn off the stove. (You know, so ur house won’t burn down…)
I connected this feeling with DREAMS. Not wet dreams or i-thought-i-was-sitting-on-the-toilet dreams. But the kind of dreams we make in our lives when we are inspired, motivated, or simply desperate. We came up with dreams in kindergarten. In grade school. In our high school and college graduation speeches. Our dreams usually come into our lives as a thought or a hasty promise to ourselves. Sometimes, it is written down. Sometimes, it is accomplished! But more often than not, it is forgotten.
Those dreams could easily be the water we left running. It could be that pot we left on the stove. It could even be the phone we left on the Bart, never to be seen again. The only difference is… we as a human race in this day and age rarely experience the urgent jolt of having left behind our dreams. We don’t refocus the energies of our mind, body, and soul. And we surely don’t re-prioritize our lives to see our dreams come true.
Imagine how many dreams we’ve left running…
What if we could slow down, let our hearts sink and just remember:
OMG, I left my dream unfinished!
