Just For Today, Close Your Eyes And Imagine The Beautiful Thing As Reality

Just for today, let yourself experience life with a child’s hope. Just for today, turn off the buzz of pressure, fear and commitment, and stop whispering from toxic environments.

Do it: breathe in, breathe deeply, close your eyes and… believe. Take a moment and imagine that whatever you are hoping for is here. Let yourself believe that the beautiful thing you have dreamed of will happen.

They say it’s free to dream, but let’s be honest. Sometimes our thoughts get tired of wandering through the Circe Islands. Through worlds painted with happiness where we meet our goals as if it were magic.

Little by little we lose hope of the values ​​of our dreams because reality can sometimes be very difficult. It can be bitter like a lemon. Or dark as the coffee we drink in the morning to wake up from our nocturnal lethargy.

We can say that it is almost inevitable. You stop dreaming as much as you used to, you stop wishing for shooting stars. And that is because we carry a heavy burden of incomplete goals and dark disappointments.

Without realizing it, they have almost completely extinguished the flame in us that for a long time made us believe that anything was possible.

But here’s something worth thinking about. If there is one thing that has always defined humanity, it is our infinite ability to dream.

To wonder about possibly impossible things. To fantasize about reality until we get enough energy to go and make it happen. That is what sets our motivation on fire and gives us the strength and courage we need to continue in this endless struggle. But if you stop dreaming, you will be left behind…

Close your eyes to dream… Open them to create your reality

Let’s take a moment to visualize a person who has grown tired of dreaming. Let’s give them a face. We need to dive deeper into what lies behind their attitude.

There is a reason why some do not dream. There is a reason why they do not allow themselves to imagine different realities. It is because they have simply lost hope. And there is nothing more heartbreaking than losing hope.

Maybe at some point they have convinced themselves that happiness was nothing more than a promise to wait on the street. They may have read a million books on positive psychology.

To a large extent, happiness means knowing how to properly deal with negative emotions, the disappointments they come from, and tolerating frustration. In this sense, it is often the case that the greatest effort is not rewarded with results of the same magnitude.

In addition, sometimes they do not result in anything. Life is often misleading and inconsistent, and we can do nothing but remember it.

But, it is still important to break out of our immediate reality sometimes to be immersed in a dream, a desire…

It’s a way to stay alive and keep hope alive. Because the spark of creativity and new opportunities lights up when you dream.

Henriette Anne Klauser is one of the most famous authors of personal development, the field that provides strategies for people to think and strengthen their creativity.

An interesting thing she suggests in her book, “Write it down, make it happen”, is that we should dream with our eyes closed. And then write down those dreams.

In reality, it would be like writing a script with small long-term and short-term goals. This way we can make a plan. Once it is written down, we will only miss the bravest step: to open our eyes and fight for them.

It’s time to recapture the dreams we have left behind

Let’s do it, let’s close our eyes for a moment. Let’s take a second to go back to the person we were before. An eager, confident, perhaps less experienced person.

That was when the future cried out to us like a star-filled sky. It was enough to reach for it to believe that anything was possible.

Later, disappointments may have come. And the kind of thinking where disturbance, fear and insecurity made us say something terrible: “Do not do it, do not dream, otherwise pain will arise.”

Randy Pausch, a renowned science professor, is known for a fantastic teaching on life and death. He said that there is always a moment when you decide whether you are a brave person or not.

If your heart is still holding out enough hope to fight for what you want. If you really feel that you deserve what you dream of. And if all the answers are yes, there is no choice but to take the plunge and go for it.

To sum it all up, it is our duty to get back the hopeful child we used to be. The version of ourselves that we left along the way at some point out of fear. Or because we committed the unforgivable sin of underestimating ourselves.

So let’s get back the innocent light of yesterday and combine it with the intelligence and experience we’ve gained.

Let us close our eyes and imagine that the impossible is possible again. That what we want so horrible will come… Let us dream that we have enough courage to fight for what we want.

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