Save yourself the trouble: abandoned dreams don’t die

"Carpe Diem", Amsterdam, 2007 © Trish Roque

It’s like this: you decide one day that you don’t have what it takes to do this thing and that you might as well just fall back on that plan B you’ve had in your back pocket all this time.

So you leave your dream behind in a place from which you want to move on.

You left it where it was supposed to stay. You told it you gave it your all and that it wasn’t going to work. You negotiated with it – you said, look Dream, I gotta go, I gotta think about living my life without you because this is just not working out. You have to stay here while I go somewhere else to live my life without you.

But the thing is, your dream didn’t get the message.

Your dream decided to stow away deep in the recesses of your being.

Then one day you wake up and you realize that there’s this tug in your belly. You ignore the tug.

The next day, the tug feels heavier. It travels up to your heart where it causes unwanted and unnecessary anguish.

Everyday you try to ignore it. But the more you ignore it, the heavier it feels and the noisier it gets.

And then when you can’t take it anymore, you implode. You realize that it’s the dream you thought you abandoned coming to the surface, telling you that it wasn’t dead, that it was very much alive and waiting for you.

Finally, you acknowledge the Dream.

Now, the real journey begins.

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