Those Dress Dreams
July 30th, 2010
You know that dress? The one hanging in the closet that you haven’t worn anywhere yet. Maybe because an occasion hasn’t come up or because it needs to be altered or because you’re just not ready to step past your front door and let everyone see this dress. It’s that dress you sometimes slip on and twirl around in front of the mirror. The dress that makes you look incredible. The dress you can’t wait to show people. The dress that you know will take you the places you want to go.
Dreams are like that dress. We hold our dreams close. We take them out and think about them. We work on them, tweak them, shine them up. And when we think we’re ready, we start sharing those dreams. With the people around us, our co-workers, our friends, the man on the street corner, the busboy at the restaurant. Sometimes we let our dreams fly a little too soon. Sometimes they needed a little more work, and our excitement got our left foot in front of our right foot and we tripped ourselves up. Sometimes, some dreams are better left unsaid, better left in the hands of those who made them come into being in the first place.
Some dreams can be let out of the cage to fly without being ridiculed and stomped down into the ground. Other dreams need to be protected, held close, worked over and tweaked in the silent chambers of our souls. I’m still working on the wisdom to know the difference between those two.
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