The Importance of Taking Action: Don't Let the Dream be Enough

How do you feel about dreams? Sometimes they're bad dreams and we can't wait to wake up to the reality that it was just a bad dream, that the experience was not real. But what about the ones that are good dreams, the ones you hate to wake up from?

Some of us are dreamers. We dream a lot. Even while we're awake, we get a moment of nothing, and off our mind/imagination goes. It's a habit that comes naturally to us because it's happening, and we're unaware that it is. I think it tends to happen when we are not happy with our reality and we utilize the spare time to create a more favorable reality in our minds. In these images we are always someone different from who we are in real life, these dreams put our deepest desires into images. We may be unable to put those desires into words but our mind knows how to paint a perfect image though.

To everyone else, this habit may be called "doting" because it's different for them, it makes you on the other hand feel weird, because even when you try to stop it, you just can't. You shun that part of yourself because it makes you different from the people that are around you. Then there are those dreams that you cannot keep to yourself, so you decide to share them with someone you love and trust, and much to your shock and disappointment they shut you down, they make fun of you for even entertaining the thought that that dream could one day be your reality. Like they don't doubt that it's possible for someone else, but not you.

Now, with that blow to the heart, what's the point of dreaming? What's the point of spending time in the fantasy? Because that person or those people know better than you do, they love you and care about you so, if they can shut it down, then it was you that was wrong to even waste your time thinking it and telling it to them. But whenever you are alone, or get a moment of nothing, here comes the dreams and the imagination again, so you respond now by finding something, anything to do to fill that moment of nothing, because that's when the dreams and imagination occur and well so and so said that it won't be your reality and you believe them, you doubt yourself because of them, so you are now in a fight against yourself to be who they think you are.

As life goes on and you discover things about yourself, the imagination turns less fictional and more resonating. It is no longer a "delusional" fantasy because it now has some reality in it, so you start to pay closer attention and are now able to connect the dots, fantasy to reality, reality to fantasy. And it scares you, but you gotta keep it to yourself because if they thought you were crazy before, they will panic about you now. Like, yeah, I think it's time we make that appointment to see Dr. so and so, or Pastor so and so because this is just ridiculous. So, yeah, you keep it to yourself because you are seeing a different version of yourself, and you like that version of yourself better than the real you now.

The war has now begun, and it's taking place within you, the war is happening in your mind, and your heart is torn between the two sides. It's not easy to pick a side in the battle, because it's different versions of you, the current you vs. the you that you want to become. You become withdrawn over time because you are gravitating towards the dream, the vision in your mind, where life is now an interruption and not the other way around. It's quite an interesting turn of events, to the trained eyes it exudes symptoms of depression, but to the experts, you're just a dreamer during wartime.

The dream is not an invitation to bed, it is not intended to sleep your way through life, the dream's message is that you can change your reality, it shows what can be your reality. But for it to become reality, you have to wake up, from sleeping, you have to wake up from dreaming because while you are sleeping nothing is changing. Dreams are messages from God, Proverbs 23:7 says that as a man thinks, so is he, and dreams are thoughts in the form of images.

Do not let the dream be enough, do not get stuck in the excitement of the dream that you become stagnant in the stage of dreaming. It is not intended to remain a dream, just like the architect draws a plan, it was meant to be someone's home or office, not lines on paper. The plan is given to a contractor and his team, it's instructions for them to follow, and the dream is the blueprint stage. The reality you see was once someone's dream, that did not stay a dream, they took it to an architect and then a construction team, and boom, someone has a home and somebody's employees are not getting wet when it rains.

Get over the excitement of the dream and get into action, the dream will only become your life, when you get past the excitement of the mental image of it, and pursue the tangible aspect of it.