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Dream Death
The most tragic form of murder
It is brutal to watch a dream die. Even though we continue to live, we begin to die with the death of our dreams. But if others still have dreams, we have some hope of living vicariously through the dreams around us.
As we age, it becomes more important that others have dreams that survive. Life is hard, and very few people achieve their dreams in youth, but actualizing dreams is a lifelong learning process.
Watching our children and grandchildren struggle with their dreams and supporting them is as good as achieving your own. The health of a society is how rich that society is in the diversity and variety of dreams.
Knowing how reachable those dreams are is essential but not as important as having them. Without dreams, there is no hope. People find a way to their dreams or some part of them.
Few of us are doing what we dreamed we would do in school, but often, what we do becomes a means to a part of our dreams. I know because I am older, having lived through the last half of the 20th century and the first quarter of the 21st.
My generation grew up thinking we were entitled to our dreams, and the loss of those dreams has been a song we have been writing for fifty years. Our dreams were unrealistic, but they can still be ideals we can pass on to…
