Unlocking the Dream Drawer; Thanks Peter Pan,

The original Peter Pan book is magical.

 

 If you have never read it, I suggest you pick it up; I promise you the content isn't kiddie stuff. The author James M. Barrie's twisted backstory gives the whole book a very ghostly tone. Reading it, I think only adults can fully appreciate the wonder of a child's imagination. It's set in a world we all knew once. Where we could fly. Where we could do anything with a little fairy dust. Where we would never grow up. It was quick-witted kids who only cared of freedom versus imbecile grown-ups who only cared of gold. And it was the children, with scuffed up knees, tattered shadows, and dirty faces that always went home victorious.

 

When the book begins, Mrs. Darling comes and tucks her three children into bed, and like any mother would, promptly "tidies up their minds". She puts unsorted thoughts in their places and dusts. And when that is done, Mrs. Darling watches her children's dancing Hopes and Dreams.

 

Adults have Hopes and Dreams too. But as you get older, you have less room in your mind for them. So you put them away in a drawer. Adults don't think about their hopes and dreams very often, but sometimes they can open the drawer and dance with them. But it gets harder and harder to put the dreams away and close the drawer. It is too hard for some grown-ups, so they close the drawer and lock it and they do not open it again.

 

I never want to shut away my hopes and dreams. I never want to give up on them. In Peter Pan, the only difference between children and grown-ups was believing. I will always believe in myself, because once you give up on a dream you can be sure it won't happen. So here are a few of my dreams from my own Hopes and Dreams drawer in no particular order. Oh, and this is if pay and experience didn't matter.

 

1. An Astronaunt

2. A Singer

3. A hard-hitting Journalist

4. A News Anchor

5. A Stay-at-Home...Person

6. A Novelist

7. A Blogger (for a living!)

8. An Artist

9. A Teacher

10. A Psychologist

11. A Cosmotologist

12. An Actor

13. An Interior-Designer

 

Now I'm not saying my plan is to do a few of these for a living, but never put something great past yourself. We have our whole lives ahead of us and if you know where you're going to be twenty years from now, you are a boring person! Just remember turning 18 doesn't have to mean putting childish things aside. Hold onto those crazy dreams your half-chasing, because if being an adult means locking your Dream Drawer, I'll never grow up.

 

Thanks for Reading. What's your craziest aspiration?

 

xoxo- Shayna