No one is a stranger to dreaming: we all peer into the future with hearts hopeful for a life in which our aspirations are fulfilled. As children, we are taught how to plot courses from our lives now to where we wish our lives to be, but life rarely follows the path we set for it without deviation. Circumstances weigh the heaviest on the shoulders of dreamers, and instead of climbing to our dreams, we become tethered to anchors in a place that becomes so familiar, so routine, it becomes difficult to wish for anything else...and actually reaching for our dreams costs us more than we have.
Eventually, if we let it, the dream fades… The mountain looks too high to climb, the move appears too risky to make, we let people slither into our ears and convince us to act against our own aspirations and, in the end, we accept the monotony that keeps us afloat because everything and everyone has convinced us that where we are is all there could ever be for us in this life. We become afraid to move forward. Complacency sets in.
But dreams are easily reignited. Inspiration can come from anywhere and can touch anyone. Eventually, the place we are stuck in is no longer enough. Once that decision is made the four walls, the anchor, and the monotonous routine of life all become the foes we set out to conquer as we reaffirm ourselves to our hopes and dreams.
For most of us, because of the position we are in, it can easy to lose sight of what we want out of life. But dreams aren’t so easily forgotten. In truth, the bindings hthat tether us to the here and now are broken by those who not only dare to dream but have the courage to take their first steps out of the place they are in now.
Out of all tethers, good and bad, that this series will explore, this tether is mine. It’s a frustrating tie to an anchor...and I’m working on severing it.
felix_elise is the Caged Aspirant.
