post-dreaming reality

Hope the clear air in Cumbria is blowing out the cobwebs.
Good observation.
What I like is the idea that this is “our” time. Look around at politicians, businesspeople, celebs, etc. Our generation has arrived, is having an impact and it is our turn to run things.
Dreams were the fuel that got us here, but you can only do so many things with a life, and many of the important things probably seemed too mundane to dream about anyway (love, kids, gardening, helping others, etc).
You’re doing fine 🙂

Thought provoking Mr Mac… if one is so busy dreaming about tomorrow and what might be, one never truly lives today…and if today aint too good, then some decisions and changes need to be made that only oneself can make… xx Hope all well up in the “frozen land”

There’s another wordd for post-dreaming: death. Until then, dream another dream.

Some people aren’t getting what you said, but I do.
Beautifully put.

I know what you are saying, but I am having the exact reverse of an internal battle. I have noticed that the dreams of 20 years ago have died or have been killed…but at 41 I am inspired to recapture those ideal dreams of the 21 year old me. I want to feel that untested and trusting passion that I can achieve anything. I know I many not get all my goals, but I want to feel the internal lust for my future that I had 20 years ago.
The trick here is to find out how to ignite that little pilot light inside me somewhere and turn it back into an inferno.
It is not bad to be content where you are…but I don’t want to feel content….I want to feel that crazy way about life that I did when I was younger. There must be a way to feel like that again if one desires that.

you’ve followed your instincts hugh and it’s worked out!
most people never do that. it’s a great feeling. congratulations!

“I am here and now”… Hugh, pick up the book “The Peaceful Warrior” if you have time – you either purposely or inadvertently extracted one of the most powerful messages from its pages.

We have a poem in Urdu which was written in the 18th century and I think the poet is talking about his mid life crisis. What to do when you realise that this is it. The verses go something like this ” There are thousands of wishes that I have and each wish seems like I am going to die if I don’t get this. A lot of my wishes were fulfilled but so many remain still.”

It hit me when I was 17 and realised I was never going to be a champion ice skater – not that I’d ever wanted to be one, but the realisation that I’d ‘left it too late’ shocked me to the core.

Hugh:
I’ll argue with you.
Henry Ford started mass producing the Model T when he was in his mid-forties.
Ray Kroc started franchising McDonald’s hamburgers when he was 63 years old.
Colonel Sanders was flat-broke, living on social security and deep in his sixties when he started Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Warren Buffett is 78 years old. He really didn’t start making the big bucks until he was in his late forties. The last few years have been his best.
I personally know a man that was fired from a “lifetime” job when he was 51 years old. He has built a successful manufacturing business in the last 18 years and has a net worth of $300 million.
Now that I think about it, I don’t know of anyone that has built a substantial net worth that is under the age of 50. Frankly, most of us don’t get our shit together until we are well past 40. We are all still learning about life, business, etc.
You are being way too hard on yourself.

Does the ‘doing it’ have to do with making $, because I’m still doing it, even if it doesn’t produce income. No regrets and full of dreams. This is the way to live life, on that steadfast path of following your heart, but of course, “one day” is like “one love,” you’re either in it everyday or you’re not, it’s actually the most important relationship of your life … enjoy it, Hugh.

familiar thoughts that spring naturally from every artist who has followed their heart. Seems like the natural cycle (you’re in a 12 step process, my friend!). Inherently, art has no agenda, no metrics and if one wants to add “make money” to the mix of inspiration, then it works as long as the art doesn’t lose its original heart.
Honestly Hugh, I think you’ve positioned yourself nicely into a financially viable art form and we will take you out there bringing wonder and bending perspectives in corporate america/europe. Silicon Valley brainstorm tour in late Jan/Feb for starters? -Kris

I used to think this way. In fact, at the age of 24, I thought I’d reached the point of “Post-Dreaming Reality”. I got my engineering degree, I was employed at a large and stodgy engineering firm, and my dreams of being a musician “someday” were over. At least, so I thought.
Fast-forward to age 29. A few layoffs, career changes, interstate moves, and crazy coincidences later, I found myself joining an amateur music club. Just a few old fogies getting together every two months to play music for each other. The old fogies liked me; they thought I had talent. Next thing I knew, I was performing at a music festival and getting invited to all sorts of other festivals. I now play 3 or 4 festivals a year, compose, perform, record, and basically do all the things I’d dreamed about way back when. I am 31. My second CD is coming out in January. The first CD is selling quite nicely, thank you.
I will never again decide that I am too old to live my dreams. In fact, I have decided that I am finally old enough to ignore what the world is telling me and do whatever the hell I want.

you are amazing

Rock on. I just turned 40 and it’s nice to finally know what I’m going to be when I grow up. And you know, it’s pretty good. Oh, I can give you a list 50 items long as to why it’s not satisfactory, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not really, really good.
A friend of mine once said: “You know, I have approved of very little that has happened to me in my life, yet my life keeps getting better and better.”

Unrealized dreams die quickly, or kill slowly. Be wise when allowing yourself a dream and patient in it’s pursuit…