To Panacea or Not to Panacea, that is the Question

Dreams and Non-Dreamers

Of the two archetypal life trajectories -- abandoning dreams for fear of residing in fantasy or accepting the risk of visions and carving a reality for seemingly wild aspirations -- the former is reliable and stable, but ultimately mundane, while the latter has its own vibe and frequency, its own unique risks, and a distinct robustness.

The positive outcome of abandoning dreams as hogwash drivel is that one can quickly plan their life. Without a focus on dreams, one's life may be robotic or inhuman, but there lacks uncertainty of enigma. Lives void of dreams are very predictable. If you aren't dreaming of starting your own business, for example, you know that the next morn will begin another day of slaving away for the manager, but there will be exactness about your vocation. However, not dreaming deflates the intention of one's actions and committing to a dream ultimately must occur. But dreams can be planned. They are not always spontaneously generated occurrences. In fact, dreams are only accomplished through very detailed planning and a vehement focus and ardent commitment to that dream.

When one commits to a prudent and sincerely good dream, a regression is not only ridiculously unfeasible, but completely impossible. Oliver Wendel Holmes writes, "One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions", meaning once a cultivated dream has taken roots, its delivery is in the pipeline, and it becomes an anchored dream. Retraction of commitment and choosing to consciously dispose of an anchored dream furthers the state of fantasy because the anchored dream has become the sole reality. Once one's spirit has already committed to a dream, the subconscious fulfillment is inevitable. This may sound like one is imminently drawn into the rabbit hole, but this path is of one's own devising, customized and personalized to the impassioned individual.

Non-dreamers frequently have a problem with dreamers, and vice versa. In addition to fallaciously believing they are lost, wandering souls, non-dreamers are intimidated by dreamers for fear of those dreams coming to fruition. If all the dreams suddenly sparked into reality, the non-dreamers would be missing a great harvest and would lose.

The dreamers are insulted and repulsed by a non-dreamer's waste. Through the eyes of the dreamer, the methods in which non-dreamers make refuse of their life by disposing of it -- by obsequiously handing it over to some unwarranted authority -- is repugnant. But dreamer's must implement there dreams through scheduling, planning, and tangible deadlines in order for them to come into fruition. The dreamers disgusted by laziness of people who fail to dream and, thus, avoid doing anything poignant with there life, and the non-dreamers scoff at the dogged pursuit of dreamers, claiming it to be a futile quest for a non-existant panacea?

The interesting part arises when dreamers ultimately reach success. This not only perturbs the non-dreamers, but it frightens them. The more oft birth of dreams into reality engenders in the non-dreamers, neurotic fright not of the fruition of a dream, but the sudden horror that their life lack connection to poignant intention.

The Tools of Non-Dreamers and Dreamers
Non-dreamers have conformity, society, and conventionality for structure with legal-rational authority to keep them afloat. Dreamers have tools at their disposal, too. The can catalyze motivation from nowhere, manufacture a creative and unique style, and utilize enthusiasm as an invigorating source.

Non-dreamers may appear to have an upper hand most of the time, but ultimately they only possess the hollow authority of detritus, things that are irrelvent; the dreamers must have continuation with transforming dreams to reality and recognize their obstacles not as opposition, but as a peculiar form of summoning motivation.

Successful dreamers are not in the clouds, but organized, scheduled and glued into a very demanding regimen.

If your sentient time is a blank canvas and your life is the painting, then your unique style is the paint to color your existence. Eventually, the weathered dreamer cultivates his or her original style. One’s style allows you to cultivate originality and it allows you to take an optimistic view on life because you act as a vibrant traveler heading through life with clarity of a destination and awareness of what you want to do during your travel. Style allows you to transform your ideas, thoughts, awareness, and dreams into reality.

Finally, the dreamer must tap into his enthusiasm, which is best accomplished, according to Aldous Huxley, by re-accessing the childhood voice. Huxley writers how childhood is an enthusiastic the path to genius: "The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm". It's vital to keep this connection to childhood voice a sincere beacon of our commitment to passions. However, those passions easily get derailed without planning and regimen. You have to program your own life and design. Dreaming is only half the process. Creating a strict, and discipling, but not enervating regimen that manufacture steps to success creates that inner knowing. Childhood zeal is a vital touch to all of this, however. Childhood zeal propels the mature adult into the experience of unbridled effulgence and invigoration.