Do you ever wonder where our unused ideas, hopes, and dreams go? Do our unused ideas go to someone else or do they live in a wasteland on the edge of our memories. I picture a vast wasteland like an idea junkyard. Where our unused hopes and dreams lay scattered about covered in rust and neglect mostly lost and forgotten.
Some even seem to live in that mystical place we go to right before sleep, teasing us with their presence, living a half-life just out of our reach. Maybe some ideas find their way into other people’s dreams and become creations that are full of life. When we read or hear about them we remember and wonder why we let them go.
It is possible that ideas, hopes, and dreams live in a place where anyone can go. They are like the vast shelves of books in a bookstore. Are our unused ideas like books in a used bookstore still there but just forgotten and waiting to be remembered?
It has been said that great ideas are just ideas. Dreams are just dreams and hope goes unfulfilled when forgotten.
Point of View:
Hopes, dreams, and ideas require creation to be realized. It requires action on our part. The next new design in fashion, the next new bestseller or the next cure for a deadly disease may be there lying silently just beyond our reach, unused and forgotten in the idea wasteland. Our minds hold unlimited sparks of creation. We are gifted with the ability to build amazing things out of a passing thought, solve the hardest problem because our mind can create solutions. For any of this to happen, we have to pair our thoughts, ideas, and dreams with our drive, determination, and creativity. It requires actions by us to be realized.
Lastly, when that idea drifts into your dreams at 4 a.m. get up and write it down. Dictate into your phone. If you don’t when you awaken the next morning it may be gone. Without action, there is no creation.
I love this Larry. your right a thought is just a thought unless acted upon Its up to us to make the action. I think unused dreams manifest in later dreams. We have to be driven deeply to act upon them. Just ny thoughts
I keep a journal by my bed and when I get those 3am ideas I write them down to act on. Thank you again my friend for your encouragement
We all have dreams. Many try to achieve them, and few succeed. Why?
The Dream must make you fly into the future, the future that you imagine, the future that belongs to you.
The Dream must burn inside, as the passion.
The Dream must be engaging: attract, excite, and have a project.
The dream is to be shared.
The dream is to be realized. Otherwise it will become only one regret. Will remain just an idea, that eventually fades, leaving only the bitterness of not having tried.
These are the five pillars that indicate why it is important to have a dream and why it is important to realize it. I believe that there is a sixth: the action. Whatever we want to achieve we must act, with perseverance and determination, to create good daily habits that bring us closer every day to the goal. It’s no use taking refuge in dreams and forget to live. Actually, the best way to realize a dream is to wake up and live with passion the realization of own dream-project. After all it is the “our own” dream and perhaps we must continue to pursue it to the end of the world!!
The essential conditions for the realization of the dream are enclosed in the vision we have of it. Negative emotions, doubts, fears create an invisible barrier that takes us away from our goal and more and more often we feel at the mercy of unpredictable events, fatality and circumstances that we think outside ourselves.
A dreamer knows he has to be pragmatic, to does not help fantasize without finding a practical application, must be brave and believe in his dream more than anywhere else in the world.
To turn an idea into realizable dream it takes so much work. A dream becomes feasible when the idea crystallizes. To cultivate an idea serve diligence and a well-defined process.
Aldo my friend your reply and comments are quite profound.
I so agree with this. I only wish I could capture thoughts at those times when they come to me so clearly. But usually I’m driving or in a place where I can’t write or record them. Of course, by the time I have pen in hand or can get to record in my phone both the text and thought have left me.
Thank you Jane
Remember that island of unloved toys? I think there is an island for unused ideas too.
Thank you Chris. I’m sure some of my toys are there.
I have a thing against dentists because of that show.
I think I left a few things there!