Day Dream Believer

{Day Dream Believer by Julia Eves}

On the occasion of the death of Davy Jones, singer of Daydream Believer, it seems appropriate to write about something that I've been wondering about regarding dreams.

We tell children that they can be anything they want to be when they grow up. 

We tell adults that they cannot be anything they want to be now that they are grown up.

Why the shift? I mean, wouldn't it make more sense to tell adults that they can be anything they want to be? Adults have more energy, resources, education, and connections to make their dreams happen. Seriously, 3-year-old Jack lacks the hand-eye coordination to operate a backhoe, 4-year-old Samantha just doesn't have the network and lineage to be a princess, and who is going to tell 5-year-old Keisha that we don't have astronauts at NASA anymore?

Do we let children dream because it's really just a game of imagination, and adults are supposed to be more "realistic"? I question this logic.

I realize that some options are simply not available to people of a certain age, although there are Olympic swimmers who are forty and people getting college degrees during retirement. However, I don't run into this type of thinking regarding things that our bodies and minds simply cannot do anymore. I more often run into this type of thinking among people who have stopped allowing themselves to dream. People who know what their dream was, but don't feel like they can pursue it. People who have given up on a little part of their soul that calls them to create, to dream, or to risk becoming who they are.

Today, why not ask some over twenty-five what their dream is? They may be surprised that you asked, but if you get an answer, you can be one of their Daydream Believers. What an honor.

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