...but do chase your dreams.
Dreams are an interesting thing and not just confined to your slumber. They consist of your imagination, hopes, beliefs, fears and wants.
The dreams of our slumber can inspire or warn us for our waking lives.
Those in our waking world can lead us to greatness and deliver us from which we hide from. We all have dreams, some just choose not to engage them, to live a life less ordinary or challenge our thoughts and beliefs or just chase down a whim.
All too often I am told that I am "living the dream" - but what is that exactly?
Reality is that I am just living my life, doing what I want, if I want and I guess with whom I like for the most part. Granted so few get to do this but then so few choose to throw caution into the wind and follow their heart or an idea or wildest dream to find out what the world and their lives truly have in store for them.
"there is so much more to happen for you yet"
It is not any easy thing to leave your home, family and friends to give things "a go" on the other side of the world. I don't know if it is fear of the unknown or just a comfort in the familiar that keeps us where we are, doing the same thing day in day out .
Those that know me would agree that I have never really conformed to the ways of the normal world. You could say I push the boundaries, take on things I know nothing about and give anything I can a go, especially if it has handlebars, motor or water . I have been known to throw caution into the wind, living by the seat of my pants and just jumping in feet first - living by the seat of my pants - which isn't always on anything solid!
So far it has lead me to far away countries and islands where I have met all manner of people and had experiences a plenty to fill my senses and curiosity. Living summer to summer - Europe to New Zealand, the Pacific and anywhere in between.
Its not a dream.
Its just someone else's reality.
A different way of life.
Seeing places a new yet all too often so so old.
Meeting new people, hearing new languages and learning about old cultures
Moving from Port to Port without every seeing a pirate nor mermaid.
Bu even a travellers life is full of barriers - be it language or time zone, money or religion. It is never a straight path when you following "your nose" in an attempt to make a new life or lifestyle for yourself.
Living out of a suitcase is not a life many would want or enjoy, and surely not what dreams are made of for the majority of those you know, but it does have a strange appeal to it. It has become my choice of lifestyle. It is a way to follow the path you dreamed of. Can't say I saw the path as this twisted and steep but then
"we don't grow when things are easy, we grow when we face challenges"
One day I will find the elusive end to the rainbow chasing (don't worry I will let you know if there is a pot of gold there...yeah right!) I know one day I will find the place I belong as much as the place I grew up. A place I can call my home, one that will calm my itching feet, and fill my mind with all it needs to stop looking for paradise. It could be Alaska, The Caribbean or a small Pacific atoll. Who knows and only time can tell if such a place even exists.
Some times that is the great part about dreaming, it can be of places you are yet to discover or it could be a mix of everything you have seen before.
Who knows what you may find in the unknown - maybe your equal to share the dream or the next traverse and adventure.
Be it for however long the moment lasts.