The
Semi-Possible Dream
One of my favorite
songs is The Impossible Dream, from The Man of LaMancha. It is very
inspirational and uplifting. For a moment, I feel as I am at a great opera
house singing along with the recording.
I like to think
that I too can achieve the high ideals that this song entails: “to try when
you’re arms are too weary . . . to reach the unreachable star.” Yet often I
seem to mire in the mundane; to get lost in the daily trials; to stop short of
the goal.
What is it that
causes a dream to become achievable? Or, more to the point, how can a dreamer-
- who has high goals and objects, who desires to reach as far as is
capable—make the dream come true?
Daydreaming
by adults is frowned upon. We are to be at work, living rationally within our
means, neither flighty nor chasing after novelty. But dreaming produces vision.
And as the world knows, true vision is often missing or distorted.
On
a personal level as well as on the public level the routine pervades our days.
The news is full of stories of distress where people just move from one event
to the other—disconnected and uninspired.
It is hard to see how dreams can come true.
And
then there are those skeptics—the ones that tell everyone that life is to be
endured and suffered. That this is all there is. These exist within the church,
the school and throughout the land. They are unhappy and do not dream. And so, they want to squelch dreams.
Yet
these are ultimately just obstacles. Dreamers dream. That part within us does
not conform nor grow weary. It is our oxygen-- our fuel that keeps us
going. To stop dreaming is to stop
living.
My
dreams may appear impossible—no doubt some are. I doubt that everyone will
travel with jetpacks strapped to our backs. But many dreams are possible, if
persistence, patience and humility continue. Thus dreams may not be Impossible,
but rather semi-possible.
