Serendipity

Part of chasing a dream is realizing that nightmares are also dreams.
We tend to forget that nightmares are very much a possibility in the realm of dreaming. Dreaming of a better life. Dreaming of more. Dreaming of peace.

Yet when a nightmare appears, all of these dreams become disrupted—sometimes even discarded.

I, too, am a victim of this mentality. I have the time now, more than I ever have, to see it clearly. To look at my dreams and say, “I miss chasing you. I miss seeing you as a possibility in my life.” Not because I stopped believing—but because I hit a very rough patch in my life.

A patch that, yes, shaped who I am today. It made me silent in many ways. Silent not just in voice, but to the dreams that want out—dreams that want to become more than thoughts trapped inside my head.

We can only dream of better if we acknowledge the hardship and sadness that exist while chasing it. We become so focused on the dream that when the nightmare arrives, we forget why we chased it in the first place.

The dream becomes an obstacle to the peace we seek away from the nightmare. So many of us take the easy way out—we let it go. For a moment, we’re okay. We feel peace.

Until that peace becomes chaos to the soul.

The soul was never meant to accept a mediocre life. It could never accept that we chose to give it all up.

So get up.
Reignite the flame that was once there.
Fight—and always remember: chasing a dream also means accepting that nightmares are a part of it.