The world is waiting for your dream

Today, a friend of mine who has been in a very difficult relationship said she had given the man her life, held off on her dreams and now the man had practically thrown her out and she is trying to find her feet if she can… she said she had dreams. Then I said, then you can still live. It is when your dream dies with a circumstance that you are truly dead.
Dreams are what they are… dreams but dreams are what indicate to us that one is still living (not breathing)… you can be breathing but dead if you have no dreams. Dreams are what you live for, the reason you wake up each day…
I do not know why we have to tie our dreams to anyone or anything. I believe that the people we meet along the way are placed there to help us become better people and to realize our dreams as we too are part of their dreams… yes even poisonous people… (including spouses and siblings). They are placed there by God to bring out the best (well sometimes the worst) in us so that we can make amends and focus on the higher road.
When I teach, I tell people not to lose their dreams or if they have lost it to dream another dream… why go through life without a dream… something to walk and work towards, something to intrinsically pursue, something to keep us together when all else falls apart…something to wake up to each morning. Some people dream only of waking up beside someone so when the person is not there or takes “his side away” from the bed, the emptiness is loud and they lose the joy of life.
Your dreams can get knocked, battered but they cannot die except you allow it. Your dreams have nothing to do with your age or biological clock…yes the years are the time to pursue the dream, to make it a reality but as long as you are not yet under the 6 feet by 6 feet underground bunker, you have time to live, to chase and to accomplish your dream. The problem sometimes is when the dream gets battered, we give up dreaming and when our journey takes a hit we park along the road.
If you have no dream or find that you thought you had but you have lost it… just wake up throw up your hands in the air and scream that you want a dream… you want something to live for, something to be remembered for… something that will impact the world and make it a better place… do not think of solving the middle east problem or the corruption in Africa problem… think of your community... your church… open your eyes and your heart and a dream will be planted into them…. Just be open. There is no one who cannot dream, there is no one who cannot leave a foot path that is not covered by perishables… and there is no one who can have a better dream than you. The world has been made a better place by people who dreamt and the world is waiting for your dream.