Number Me One of the Dreamers

Hope is an eternal concept. Life can drag you down hard, folks. I'm pretty sure most people already know this. And if you don't? Well, I hate to say just wait...buuuuut...well, I just won't say it and you know I thought it. There. And yet. And still. There it is in front of us. You can't keep it away. You find yourself hoping in spite of your troubles.

That's because it's all about perspective, now isn't it? I mean, you can look at life as a tangled mess, a series of random and crazy happenings, some good and some bad. You might just say that it's all how evolution works. Random events and happenings and such. And in the end, you just live it and get what you get and then it is over.

I don't believe that, though. I don't think life is random. And I even now see that the tough stuff, the stuff that you think is dragging you down, is really all a part of a grand design. No, I don't believe that every little thing that happens in every second of every day was orchestrated. No, I do not. I do think that all experience, however, is opportunity. And there is a difference. Because one involves choice.

Bad or good, any experience involves a choice. You see it how you see it, perspective, that is, and then you choose what to do. I've had times in my life where I've chosen to see it as just my bad luck or punishment or "Ugh...life is so hard and it always has been. Things will never change."

Here is how I want it to change. I'm a dreamer, right? And so I see things as a chance to move toward my dream. Failed relationship? No...a chance to find someone better suited for me. Can't get a job? No...a chance to look for work that is meaningful for me, something I can do that can help others and that I'll love. Can't get a car? No...the right work is just around the corner so that soon I'll have a car, a house, and that pretty office I dream of writing in. Can't get inspired to write? No...I have ideas all the time and I'm writing them down as they come to me. And one day all that will add up to a story to tell.

Life is full of abundance and possibilities. Life is full and good. Life is grand and beautiful. I'm not lucky. I am blessed with hopes and dreams.