Visionary

"Little girls with dreams become women with vision."
 ~Unknown

I think too many people stop dreaming once they reach adulthood. I guess the reason for this is that children have less sense for reality than adults. We grow up and find the world to be much more cruel than we set out to believe. And that is when we leave our dreams behind. 
As for children, they have not yet discovered reality. Reality has not quite set in within the heart of a child. Children feel no strains to what society proclaims realistic. They have not yet come to understand the world and their place in it, and so, they dream bigger than adults ever dare.
I believe the visions of children are one of the purist things in the filth of this world. Children see not the obstacles or the hardships, but instead, they see only the dream. They think more with imagination than with logic. Children believe without doubt. They have faith without fear; dreams without limits.
Maybe this makes me a child. Maybe this means that I am naive and need to be broken down by the world a bit more. Maybe this is just me, but I think there is something alluringly beautiful about being naive. But then again, I am the naive one... am I not?
I do know one thing for certain; despite what my childishness may make me, I like to consider myself a visionary. I have not yet left my dreams in the dust, and I do not intend to. 
I believe we should all listen to the parts of our brain that give us our visions. Of course this doesn't mean we should foolishly follow our hearts into the abyss of our vision. Visions that work are those that correspond with our hearts and our minds.
I sincerely believe that, the world would have a lot more humanity in it if we did not forget who we wanted to be when we grow up. 
We should see childhood dreams, not as something naive, but instead, remember them as something that was pure. Something that as untouched by the world. Something that was a part of us before we became something "realistic."
That is the vision, the line between those who live, and those who survive. The difference between grown ups and children.

I would rather be broke with a dream, than to be filthy rich but broke on vision. Because, without my childhood dream, I wouldn't be much of anything.

 

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