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Dream about Nothing

We are all just romanticists and dreamers. Young, optimistic-yet-cynical people with faith in something. The problem is, we can’t get out of our own way long enough to figure out if the dreams can be fulfilled.

Maybe we’re scared of it.

Maybe we have no real intention of following through. In fact, we usually don’t even have the opportunity to follow though—this allows us to make empty promises and dream about essentially, well, nothing. It’s not that we don’t have the potential to follow through, we just don’t even make the effort to push on it enough to know.

For instance, I’m fascinated by the monastic movements in general. Not necessarily a time period or place, just the idea of living simply, focused, and earthly. 

But one of the absolute requirements for monasticism is discipline.

Discipline?

I can’t go 15 minutes in my office without sticking my hand in the candy drawer and grabbing a handful of Skittles. 

And I “want” to stop eating junk food and eat healthy.

But I clearly don’t want to. Why else would there be Skittles in my desk?

I think we’re privileged enough to be Dreamers and romantics because we’ll never have to act on those dreams. 

I wish I knew a way for my hopes and dreams to become a driving reality for my life. For them to reorient the way I think, act, and live.

“In God we live and move and have our being.” -ApostlePaul