miercuri, 5 ianuarie 2011

Do you dream big? Do you have a secret wish?

''Dreams are the touchstones of our character.'' Henry David Thoreau

We live in a rush and sometimes we get stuck in the daily routine and we forget about our dreams or deepest longings, we forget, or we store them in locked drawers.

It's my first post. If you read the following rows, it means I drew your attention. And it also means... that I got what I wanted, my wish came true or should I say my dream came true?

''A wish is a hope or desire for something''. Could we say a dream is exactly the same thing as a wish?

Wishes are in every thought, in every soul , in every prayer, in every dream and wishlists of a child, in shop displays , even in advertisings. Burning desires, modest wishes, intimate desires, material ones, long term ones or the unattainable ones, ...A burning wish, a dream and a hope . They`re different conceptions of the human mind, different products resulted from the dance of your imagination, different states, which actually have the same roots. Like twins, at the same time so similar and different.

Let's say a dream is an attainable wish but the wish is an unfulfilled dream,all merging into a series of disappointments and their dissipation. To make our wishes come alive we gotta pay them attention, care for them with confidence. It needs inspiration and imagination. Only with a complete treatment you get what you want...

Reifying a dream, we get the wish, hoping for the wish to come true we get the hope that never dies, the hope motivated by the dissipation of other ones. Any dream could be a hope and every wish a dream. The roles are switched so that all gets a different context, it's about something alive in our soul , something that till now was called with disbelief ... a dream.

In this new year, 2011 , i wish you to fulfill your dreams!

''Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.'' Marsha Norman

''Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?''

Alfred Lord Tennyson

duminica. 5 Ianuarie 2020

I was quite confused in 2011.

It took me a bit to remember what I actually wanted to say, but it was probably the fact that the term dream had always had more of a fantasy conotation. At least for me. And like a fantasy it seems far away, ethereal, otherworldly.

Using 'wish' or 'plan' for the longings of my innerself makes them seem more attainable. More from this world. More boring. Being a daydreamer I was always in love with the absurd, so it seems that I wanted my plans to be like dreams, these absolute fantasies, glimmering like shells, perfect, iridiscent and untouchable.

"I often find myself wondering whether fulfillment actually has anything to do with wishes.

Yes, as long as the wish is weak, it is like half and needs to be fulfilled like a second half in order to be something independent. But dreams/desires can grow so wonderfully into something whole, full, holy, which can no longer be supplemented, which only increases out of itself and forms and fills." (Rainer Maria Rilke)

What Rainer Maria Rilke has put in those wonderful words is what 16 year old me wanted to communicate. And while searching for the discipline one needs to materialize an imaginary concept I always enjoyed getting lost in the process of dreaming, floating and waltzing on a cloud.And that particular process lures the vulnerable in and satisfies you itself. Actually I might say with complete honesty that there is where I feel at home, in that space between the idea that I have and its materialization. It's when I feel the most alive.

Pläne schmieden

«Sie haben recht, auch Pläne bringen schon reichlich viel Beweglichkeit in uns, und wer weiss, wie sehr wir uns, während sie uns auf einer Stelle lassen, in ihnen wandeln.» (R. M. R)

This was a text about nothing actually. A text for me reminding myself of my difficulty of dealing with the practical and important part of making something come true. What 16 year old Ana did not know is that besides eternal hope you need discipline. And a lot. My ultimate dreamplan for the Nouveau Twenties 2020 is to include it day by day in my life.