Chasing Your Dream

I have a friend who has been chasing his dream since leaving college.  He has gone places, lived places, tried jobs . . . but!

But what, you ask?

His dream is to go back -- back to when the west was wild, back to when he was a child, back to when he was in college.  Rather than taking him forward into the future, he has been determined to go back to a culture and life that no longer exists.

I find myself torn.  I know what it is like to want something that might have made sense 50 or 100 or 200 years ago.  But that dream makes no sense, now.  I live in 2013, not 1963 or 1913 or 1813.  Not only has the culture, population patterns and economic matrix changed -- I have changed as well.  

But I can still dream for tomorrow and next year and the next decade.  Without putting my old dreams down I can dream for my future, and for the future of the world.  Even those are subject to change.

I know a lady who once dreamed of being a medical engineer who designed better knees, created better prosthetics, and so forth.  Part way through medical school, with more information and knowledge she allowed her dream to change and went into a different field of medicine.  Probably since then she has modified or radically changed her dreams more than once.  It's possible that a guy, a family, a home and other dreams were added to her dreams.  She is the kind of person willing to work to make those dreams become reality.  Real reality, not fantasy reality.

Do you have dreams?  Do you update them from time to time?  Will you allow yourself to live somewhere and sometime beyond the old dreams in the past?

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