What is this power we experience deep in our dreams? Is it our own power, yet untapped, undiscovered, showing us glimpses of what may yet be, reassuring us that the unwritten future still holds the promise of a brighter day? Or is it possible that somehow, we are connecting with the person we are searching for somehow, and two dreams are forged into one, even though we may not have yet met. If we have already found that person, is it possible that even in our deepest sleep we are sharing our dreams, our power ebbing and flowing to and fro between us, drawing us closer together than our conscious minds can even perceive?
The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened. ~James Arthur Baldwin
It is only now, in this stage of life that I have come to embrace the facts of what we can or cannot force into reality. What cannot be forged by strength of will or sheer determination. In my pursuit of the "true dynamic", I, as many before me, have tried to find it by strength of purpose, by diverting massive amounts of my time and energy into the search, and by many many other efforts. So at last I come face to face with my predicament, and only now realize that it cannot and will not be found in these ways.
So for the now at least, I embrace that my path is to be the one of the solitary man, and I will patiently embrace the beauty that life has to offer me in this journey, and try to simply trust in the powers that be that it will not always be so. But if at the end of all things, this is the way it was to be, I will know as I face my creator that I at least did not waste the greatest gift in the universe ... the moments we are alive. But, I will still enjoy the dreams ....
