Just For Today, Allow Yourself To Close Your Eyes And Dream Like A Child

Just today, allow yourself to dream like a child, to feel the same hope they feel. Just for today, step away from pressures, fears, obligations and block out the noise of toxic environments. Do this, take a breath, take a deep breath, close your eyes and… believe. Imagine for a second that what you are waiting for has arrived. Allow yourself to believe that your so beautiful dream has come true.

They say dreaming is free, but let’s face it, there comes a time when the mind gets tired of wandering around these isles of Circe, these glittering worlds of bliss where goals are magically achieved. Little by little we lose hope in dreams because reality is sometimes hard, acid like a lemon, dark like the coffee we drink in the morning to wake up as soon as possible from our deep lethargy.

We can say, without fear of making mistakes, that in the end the same thing always happens: we stop dreaming like a child, we stop making requests to the stars because we have a high mileage of frustrated goals, of hard disappointments that we unintentionally they molded, almost completely, our hearts and extinguished that flame that for a time made us believe that anything was possible.

However, and it is worth bearing this in mind, if there is one thing that has always defined human beings, it is their inexhaustible capacity to dream, to wander through impossible assumptions, to fantasize about different variables of reality until building a treasure map that animates us to move on. It represents the wick that lights up our motivation and gives us strength and courage to continue in an endless struggle, in which those who lose their breath and stop dreaming are left behind…

Close your eyes to dream like a child… Then open them to build your reality

Let’s imagine for a moment a person who got tired of dreaming. Let’s give this person a face. Far from taking this attitude as something banal, it is necessary to delve into everything behind it. Because those who do not dream, those who do not plan or do not allow themselves to relativize their reality, endowing it with alternative paths and desires, is simply because they are someone who has lost hope. And nothing can be more heartbreaking than that.

It may be that this person was once convinced that happiness was nothing more than a promise to wait around a corner. It may also be that she has read a thousand and one books of that more radical positive psychology, in which the law of attraction is often imprinted. Well, it can be said that nowadays a movement emerges that would perhaps be of great help to this person we imagine, and to which we possibly gave a name.

Happiness, in large part, involves knowing how to deal correctly with negative emotions, the disappointments that appear, and tolerate frustrations. In this sense, great efforts are often not rewarded with results of the same magnitude. What’s more, sometimes nothing comes of it. Life is often flawed and inconsistent, an aspect we can’t change, we just need to take on.

Henriette Anne Klauser is one of the best-known writers when it comes to personal growth, facilitating people’s strategies for thinking and developing creativity. So, an interesting thing she proposes to us in one of her books is that we should dream with our eyes closed and then write down our wishes.

It’s really about writing a life script with small short-term and long-term goals in order to create a plan. Once elaborated, the bravest step is missing: open your eyes and fight for your dreams.

It’s time to claim the dreams we left behind

Let’s do that, let’s close our eyes for a moment and think for a second about the person we were yesterday. Someone with more hope, someone more confident and with less experience perhaps. It was at this time that the future seemed to us a field full of stars: you only had to pick one up to think that anything was possible. Later, perhaps, came the disappointments and the one-way street in which prejudices, fears and insecurities made us say things like “don’t do this, stop dreaming like a child, you will suffer”.

Randy Pausch, a renowned science teacher known for teaching a master class on life and death, said the time always comes when everyone must decide whether they are brave or not, whether their hearts still harbor enough hope to fight. for what you want and if, in reality, you feel truly deserving of the things you dream of. If all the answers are positive, there is no other option but to take the next step and fight for it.

In conclusion, it is our duty to recover that hopeful child we were in the past, that version of ourselves that at some point we left out of fear or because we made the unforgivable mistake of underestimating ourselves. We must, therefore, recover that light of yesterday’s innocence to combine it with the cunning and mileage of life we ​​have acquired today.

Let’s close our eyes and dream like a child, imagine that the impossible becomes possible, that what we’ve been waiting for has arrived… Let’s also dream of having enough courage to fight for what we want.

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