Dreams are not just those sequence of weird events you have at night. Dreams are the life long goals you form as a kid that seem impossible but nothing is impossible when you are a kid. Several guests attending a wedding wanted to share pictures and videos more easily and YouTube was born. A bunch of guys wanted to search for "select videos" easier and google was born, a lone nerd wanted to show the world he could make them need him and Microsoft was born. It has happened and we all have some impossible dream.
My dream? I wanted to have a team of crackpot engineers and scientists inventing various inventions, some of my design some born of those who worked for me. I wanted to bring these inventions to light and expand. I wanted to be in control but also to create something that would live on with those who worked in control of a sort of employee controlled empire (Bill Gates is a sellout as they all are). I wanted to have an invention company.
There comes a point when you realize your dreams are likely (a near certainty) not to happen. I guess for the ones who come to the conclusion it's truly never going to happen it's easier, they pierce their ears, get a tattoo, buy a corvette or get a mistress. But for those of us who's dreams die hard, it's another matter all together. We can never really give up the dream but realize how impossible it really is. What are we going to do? Invent the next Google or Microsoft in our spare time at 10pm at night when the kids go to sleep? Are we going to invent nuclear fusion or discover time travel on our train ride to work. Likely not! We are over worked and under appreciated. We love our spouses and our children and God knows where we'd be without them but our dreams life locked away on some dusty shelf like our high school year book.
Childhood's end, where our dreams come to die. Who knows, some come back from the dead after years past but not many. You come to the choice between family and career and if your career is booming like a captain Kirk's you choose adventure but lament never having a family and if your family is booming like little house on the prairie you choose family and lament adventure. I guess you can't have it all.
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That's when your dreams mature, not die. I've had lots of dreams, not just one. Some came to fruition, some didn't turn out quite the way I hoped. You adapt to the situation, learn from it, and move on. Are you going to be the CEO of a magical invention company anytime soon? Probably not. But, you can keep thinking, drawing stuff out in your spare time. Draw on your train ride to work. Build stuff on the weekend. Never sell yourself short and make lame excuses for giving up on dreams.
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