A world filled with monthly bills, work deadlines, relationship issues in the family and other concerns that root from all the negative scenarios. A world that dictates people to choose practicality more than anything else. Unfortunately, you and me, we live in "that world", and it left us without any reason so as not to daydream
Way back in grade school, my Math teacher once told my seat mate that day dreaming is only for lazy and brainless people. Perhaps, she was just making a point since my classmate was doing it inside the classroom, submerged with the swirl of random thoughts inside my head instead of the Pythagorean theorem, or the Associative Property of Multiplication. However, I think of it otherwise.
Daydreaming can be a therapy, a way of organizing your thoughts and an innocent try of getting over all that is bitter. It is a manner of visualizing what you really want to do and want to become in life minus all the pressures and restrictions from the real world. It offers you freedom from your own inhibitions more than getting drunk does. It enables you to be who you want to be, at the same time gives you the license to do what you ought to do.
It gives you the sweetest escape that your empty pockets and hectic job schedules hinders you from doing. It even allows you to be with the people whom you cannot really be with, whether because they've tied the knot or have called life quits. More importantly, it allows you to dream, something that this world tagged as forbidden.
I myself take my day dreaming hat and call myself as the "Daydream Goddess" when I need to. I think the name suits me, shrug the stupid idea that my looks equal that of a goddess because I sure don't. Kidding aside, it's just that perhaps I have more idea of day dreaming than any normal thinking human has of it. I have done it for over a million times in my entire lifetime. I do it inside the bus, inside the train and inside the cab (but of course, I still pay attention on the fare meter!), which I do twice since I do it back and forth on my way to work and on my same commute when I am headed home. Believe me, it has been very therapeutic for me all the time. If I were a psychologist, I would honestly recommend this activity to most of my patients inflicted with the worst case of paranoia, stress, manic depression or even to those with the gravest suicidal tendencies. This may be counted as admission that I myself may be or have been ill from all or even one of those disorders. Well, aren't most of us if not all of us?
If you are a person who is currently misplaced in this world, we fondly call ours. A world of creativity versus practicality, which has trapped people with eight to five jobs that most despise but so badly need to survive. A world full of people whose lives they cannot really live anymore but must live out to merely exist...
Then, day dreaming can be the first step to resurrect those childhood dream of yours. That dream you have buried in a pile of long overdue paper works. The dream of becoming a writer, a painter, a musician. The dream of who you actually want to be, of doing what you in fact want to do.
It is time to allow yourself to dream as it is your right and not a privilege. Overcome your fears of being called absurd and being rejected. Eventually to forget and prove wrong all the people who were sure you cannot when you know in your heart that you actually can. Pursue your dreams which can be the key to your own most sought after happiness, even so your own fulfillment; not just in a matter of profession but as a person holistically.
P.S.
Daydream and watch it make all the difference...
Hats down,
The Daydream Goddess
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