I have dreams

I am a dreamer. I live by dreaming. Whether it's daydreams, real dreams, hopes and dreams I wish to achieve, I live by dreaming. I have always been this way, but I have never taken a good look at what that really means.

Dreamer- a person who dreams

a person who lives in a world of fantasy; one who is impractical and unrealistic

a person whose ideas or projects are considered audacious or highly speculative; visionary (definitions from dictionary.com)

I like to think I embody most of those definitions. At first I was not particularly fond of the second one- "a person who lives in a world of fantasy; one who is impractical and unrealistic". The first part I like very much. My world is quite fantastical. But I cringed at reading the second part. Impractical and unrealistic! I resented those two words. How dare they say that being a dreamer makes me impractical and unrealistic. I don't really take issue with unrealistic. I know I'm unrealistic, but that does not mean I don't have a clear sense of what reality is. I certainly know what reality is, I just choose not to live my life in it. Impractical is what gets to me. So of course, I looked up the definition.

Impractical- not practical or useful; not capable of dealing with practical matters; lacking sense; idealistic.

There it is. Idealistic. It's not using impractical in a bad way. Dreamers are idealistic. I would have liked reading one who is idealistic and unrealistic better than impractical, but as I think more on the original definition, I begin to understand it better and now I can accept it as not being insulting, but as being a true definition.

A wonderful world of pretend

Is this world that I live in,

A world that never ends.

Now I know why Barrie

Named it Neverland,

For all the wonderful things

Will never ever end

In my wonderful world of pretend.

I am a dreamer. That's how I see the world. That's what I'll always be.

Ciao,

Bella