I think that the ability that we have within us to dream and imagine, are just ways that we can live another life. If we can just picture ourselves just one year older, or, just that little bit richer, or smarter, or prettier, then and only THEN will we feel we have reached our potential; somewhat fulfilled our purpose. But the truth is, when we get just one year older, richer, or smarter, there'll be more to dream about. We'll have new desires, wants and needs that we want to imagine ourselves in.
Maybe dreaming is just our way of escaping our current reality. After all it IS nice to be think toward a day where we aren't in the unideal or uncomfortable situations that we sometimes find ourselves in. Isn't it? I don't even have to ask anyone that to know the answer. We've all done it; wished we were living just a little bit further into the future. But I don't think it's so bad. I mean, God didn't give us the ability to desire better things for no reason. And by things, I don't mean material things. I mean, you know, thiiiiiings... God doesn't want us to remain babies in the faith forever. He doesn't want us to live and feed off of yesterday's successes for the rest of our tomorrows.
Dream bigger. No harm in that. But don't live so much in the future that you don't appreciate the present, which actually paves the way to the future. And about the future - when you're living in it, it's the present. Funny that. The future is an intangible, unobtainable... thing. It's a measurement of time. So really it's not even 'the future' that we strive for. It's what we'll have there. I guess 'the future' is also a measurement of growth; of self, of character and other 'things'. Hmm
Whatevs man.
On a semi related note...
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
- Clive Staples Lewis.
A wise man if ever I knew one.
Maybe dreaming is just our way of escaping our current reality. After all it IS nice to be think toward a day where we aren't in the unideal or uncomfortable situations that we sometimes find ourselves in. Isn't it? I don't even have to ask anyone that to know the answer. We've all done it; wished we were living just a little bit further into the future. But I don't think it's so bad. I mean, God didn't give us the ability to desire better things for no reason. And by things, I don't mean material things. I mean, you know, thiiiiiings... God doesn't want us to remain babies in the faith forever. He doesn't want us to live and feed off of yesterday's successes for the rest of our tomorrows.
Dream bigger. No harm in that. But don't live so much in the future that you don't appreciate the present, which actually paves the way to the future. And about the future - when you're living in it, it's the present. Funny that. The future is an intangible, unobtainable... thing. It's a measurement of time. So really it's not even 'the future' that we strive for. It's what we'll have there. I guess 'the future' is also a measurement of growth; of self, of character and other 'things'. Hmm
Whatevs man.
On a semi related note...
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
- Clive Staples Lewis.
A wise man if ever I knew one.
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