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The Highway of Dreams
When I first looked at this image from Sarah Illenberger, I had an immediate reaction as to what it meant. Seeing it again, I’m not so sure. What’s your read?
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Turn around to go after your dreams. You are going the wrong way. Seriously, while many of us (me, certainly), have good, even great lives, if we are honest with ourselves, they aren’t our *dream* lives. Dreams entail risk and most of us probably prefer comfort and security to risk. But comfort and security won’t let us reach for our dreams.
Either that or we just passed the exit for a little town called “dreams”.
I think it’s an interesting Rorschach test.
Wow … first I saw it as go back to where you started and there your dreams will be, where they were all along (sort of like Dorothy’s ‘no place like home’).
After thinking about it more, it could also mean, stop pursuing your ‘dreams’ (illusions?) and turn around, go back to your real life.
Very interesting!
Or, maybe dreams don’t happen in a straight line.
Yes! I took it to mean exactly that, Wendy — that one generally doesn’t arrive at a dream by a direct route. And, sometimes, there really does need to be a sign saying to get back on track.
I believe in following dreams. I really do.
I think it means: If you don’t know anymore, where your life leads you or if you’re stuck, then remember the dreams of your youth. Maybe they get you back on track.
I agree, Saavik.
Many of us get stuck in the day-to-day mundane banality of just getting through the day. We have to step back from that in order to persue our dreams.
There are days when getting through it is the best we can do.