The world is kept at balance by our throughts, by our goals, dreams and wishes. Each individual is adding to the scales, be it for good or for evil. Do not complain that you’re too small, that you cannot make a difference, that you cannot change the world. Each little thought, each idea can be the one thing that tips the balance. No effort is in vain.
And despite everything, I think believe in people.
“I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon:
Through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall.”
Dream, in Neil Gaiman’s “Sandman”
Portrait shot in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Click for full view.
Lately I’ve been going through a hard time in my marriage. Although I love my man and want to spend my life with him, the feeling grew that he was suffocating me, that he wantd to keep me from all that was important to me, that he did not want me to create my art and dream my dreams. Yes, keeping me from my dreams, begrudging me my dreams… that was probably the worst thing of it all.
Two songs expressed my feelings during that time. Here they are.
(Ignore the highly annoying videos in both cases)
And before you ask: We’re better now. Working on it, at least.
“The problems of this world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”
John F. Kennedy
“All we see and all we seem
is just a dream within a dream”
? E.A. Poe
“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
Dream, in SANDMAN #19: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
(by Neil Gaiman)
