Dreams Are Dangerous

Dreams Are Dangerous
(image by Issy aka woman seeking center)

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 Hopes
Desires
Needs
And Dreams
Are Dangerous

Because I'm here to tell (or to remind) you
That What You Want, REALLY Want
Or Hope To Achieve
Or Whatever Chews On Your Soul
Repeatedly
Will (most likely) Require Change.

And
CHANGE
IS
MESSY

Things will be different for you
As you act on your dreams, hopes, needs
Expectations and actions
(your outgoing and those incoming)
Will alter. Be different.
For the people you love
For the people you don't love
(and they'll all push your buttons while you make changes)

Choosing something different
Large and scary or smaller and less scary
Still rock the world
Because YOU DECIDED to do something
For
YOU
(there, you said it. This is about YOU)
Let the button pushing begin, lol

You will piss some people off, no doubt - be ready
You will hear some people cheer - probably not the ones you thought - be ready
You will wake up in the morning and be glad you did
because some part (large or small, matters not) of your life
is being driven by
YOU
Damn! What an amazing thing, after so, so, so long

No, you don't need to (necessarily):
Quit your job
Divorce
Be a lousy mom
Be a crappy friend
Have a disasterously messy house
Ignore the cat/dog/horse/hamster
Never cook again

You DO need to decide that, amid it all, you matter too.
As much as anyone or anything else that needs you, cries for you, depends on you
Because, hey, you depend on 'you' too - remember?
You have (still) a hope or dream or want or two (or a hundred)
of your own
And there's nothing (not a stinking thing) wrong with that!

Dream of owning a farm (that was my big messy desire)
Or dream of taking a half an hour EVERY DAY FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE
To do something that matters to ONLY you
Something that fills your soul, makes you smile, makes sunrise a good thing, another day a gift.

Cause (may I mention) the days count off, slip away, are gone
if they are good days you like
or bad days you hate
they go

Don't end up at the last of all of your days
with cold hard nothingness in your mind, your heart
Sadness that you delivered to yourself

Dream, be messy, have hopes and needs and (possibly) piss people off
While reaching for some/all/any of your wishes
You'll be happier, and oddly they'll (eventually) be happier too anf for you
(and if they aren't happy for you, they should be pissing YOU off)
Just sayin.....

Grand or grunge
Wipe the blackboard clean or pinstripe the frame around it
Stop discounting your life, waiting for the (never arriving) time
For yourself

There is nothing
Wrong
With
Having
A
Hope or Desire
A Need Or  A Dream

There IS something wrong
with pretending you don't matter
and walking away from your
soul

Change is messy

Now....
Go find some (metaphorical) mud or finger paints
And decorate the whole (or a corner) of your life
For yourself

The End?  No, darlin' -  This is THE beginning
(text copyright Issy aka Woman Seeking Center 2013)