A Magnificent Obsession
When we are young, we dream great dreams and have great visions. We will be nurses, doctors, firemen and superheroes. We will marry Prince Charming and have beautiful children who think we are the most wonderful parents in the history of the world. As we grow older, we sometimes wake up to find our dreams have faded away...some of us lose sight of our dreams altogether. Others of us never really learn to dream, or find the loss of some dreams too painful to risk trying to dream again. A thought occurred to me just now about the nature of dreaming...when we're in love, we usually dream great dreams about the object of our affection. What we will do and where we will go...what we will say in a special moment, and just how we will look. In a word, dreaming is akin to obsession. An obsession that steals us away...lost in imaginative thoughts of happy times and unlimited possibilities. Do you have any dreams left to dream? Any magnificent obsessions to steal away your hea