The Beginning of the End

I'm a great daydreamer possessing the skills to turn the four brick walls of a classroom into a new enchanted world filled with wonder. Some days I spend class on the beach as my prof lectures beneath a palm tree, and I listen to the hum of the air vents slowly fade into the ocean waves. It's quite relaxing.  I could sit under the stars or the clouds and drift off into space with the hopes of floating into Captain Kirk. While the above examples are daydreams, those fantasies are not the daydreams that I'm talking about.

Dictionary.com has several definitions for the word "dream"

1. a vision voluntarily indulged in while awake; daydream; reverie.

2. an aspiration; goal; aim

I want to focus on the latter of the two definitions. Through the years, I've had many aspirations. I could easily jot down 100 dreams that are currently hidden in the depths of my heart. The problem is that they are dreams. They have not yet come into existence. It's true that "without vision, the people perish," but I would go a step further and say that without action, the vision perishes.

For the vision to live, the dream must die. There is only one way that a dream can die. Some people may say that dreams die when you let them go, but I would disagree. Dreams can be forgotten or suppressed, but they are still dreams. Their essence does not change.

 For a dream to die, it must become a reality.

Death to daydreaming.

 Ironically, it's a call to start living. It's a call for action. Join me. 

Stop dreaming and start living.

Am I an expert on this? No. Do I have all the answers? Of course not, but I think it will be a fun adventure. What is there to lose? This blog will be a place to share my adventures and experiments as I choose to live life to the fullest, and the steps I take to bring death to daydreaming.