Life has become too task driven. It seems to be driven by "things to be done", "to do" lists, tasks! I have become task-oriented. I feel a constant need to accomplish something, get something done. I am pausing to understand why.
However, while I am pausing, I am also asking myself that even when there are things to be done, projects to be completed, events to be planned - a house to be built, a vacation to be planned, a dinner to be hosted I can dream. Start every task or project with a dream, a dream of what I want it to be like. So, if I want to go on a vacation, I'll start by dreaming and asking myself what I want it to be like, what I want it to feel like, what sensation I want to experience and be left with at the end of it. If I didn’t pause to dream, I would ask myself the usual logistical questions of how long I want the vacation to be, how much vacation time I have, what do I want to do, what is there to do in the place I am going to go to, who can travel with me, how much will it cost and so on. And before I know it, the vacation will be designed based on what is possible and not what is desired. Same goes for if I were to build a house. I would start by dreaming of the kind of space I want to live in, how I will move through it, where I will want to spend most of my time, where I tend to spend most of my team - I want to build a vision of the home before diving into the logistics of what is possible.
Dreaming brings us closer to our true feelings and we live by feelings and sensations rather than being driven by external factors and logistics of what is possible. When we dream, we do more than what is possible.
I want to dream and live by my feelings for all events, activities - big and small.
(No, I don’t think I will dream about how I want to do my laundary :-) I will however dream about how I want to spend a weekend evening!)
Reminds me of a George Bernard Shaw quote about dreaming: You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
Posted by: Nitin | February 08, 2004 at 03:27 PM