The dreamers...

I had quite an interesting weekend, with lots of fun, but the part that I enjoyed the best was this movie I saw with Pancho.

The movie was entitled "The Dreamers" -directed by Bertolucci-. This movie made me think deeply about my life and my dreams . What this movie left is striking and simple. Simple, because I do believe is something rather obvious that everyone knows already and striking because it hurts, it is a cold truth (like all truths should be).

This movies portrays the life of three youngsters (an american boy, a french girl and his twin brother), that live their lives in the edge of reality... just dreaming, enjoying their dreams, dreading the day in which life catch up with them.

A dreamer dies in the very moment he/she steps into reality. A dreamer, in order to keep being a dreamer, shuts himself from the world... Dreaming about it but never being a part of it, dreaming of change but never changing a bit. When a dreamer decides to accomplish his dreams he/she losses the "spark of the dream" immediately, and begins to be a part of the reality. It is impossible to try to live your life as a dreamer and also accomplish great goals, because in order to do something with your life you have to get real, kill the dreamer inside of you and then do what you must.

I have never heard of some one famous whose title is "John Doe, Dreamer"... it is usually "John Doe, Doer".

It is simply, of course that in the moment you get something that you desired/dreamed about, you stop desiring it and dreaming about it... but this goes a little deeper that that. We can not jump from dream to dream... dreamers usually do this, in the moment they got something they want, they immediately get bored, abandon it and start looking for something else to dream about. This doesn't mean that it is wrong to be a dreamer, you can always be a dreamer, but we have to keep in mind that our dreams have to have a purpose, and that purpose should always be: "to make them real".

Yes… we can always be dreamers, but there are two kinds of dreams: those dreams that serves us as an ultimate goal, those dreams that make us weep, and no matter what happens we will always fight for them; and those dreams that serves us an mid-term goals, that usually are steps to accomplish the greater dream… but that danger with this “mid-term dreams” is that we then forget our ultimate dream, and start living our life only for the “mid-term” ones. Instead of having “mid-term” goals we must have a life plan, something that we will do to accomplish our dream, not something that we will dream about.

I.E: My ultimate dream is “World Peace”, and I will always live my life to the precepts of this, and direct myself to accomplish it… but I wont dream about joining a ONG, or being a pacifist… I will simply join the ONG and be a pacifist.

Now, let’s not cheat ourselves, dreams such as “happiness” are useless, we must have concrete dreams, and I think happiness will just come with them.

This goes for my brother (and the rest of us that are just like him). We can’t live our lives from dream to dream. We must have a dream, but we must know where we want to stand in the end of our lives and then direct ourselves towards that. My dream cannot be something like “I want to change the world”… how am I going to change it? So guys… bro… what is your ultimate dream??? And the work you ass to get it, the rest will just come along…work, money, house, country… all will fit eventually if you just concentrate in you dream.

I think that my dream is to become a writer, and a damn good one. (not having pathetic poems such as my last post hehehehe)

I would like to read your dreams…