With already 15 months into chaos, lockdowns and fear mongering media capturing the most valuable currency of all - our attention - it's become obvious that this moment in our civilization's history is not a mere sprint, but a marathon.
When goal posts are regularly moved, expectations are constantly met with disappointments, and potential doom keeps hovering over days, weeks, and months, it's easy to lose hope.
But hope dies last, isn’t it?
I look at my chats over the course of the past year, and they've gone from "how are you, be well" over "let's use this as an opportunity and do XYZ together" on to jokes, laughs that are now becoming "pure satire", which to me indicates that once hope is getting lost, a certain type of humor starts building up.
But what if even laughs disappear, no matter how dark the humor?
Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle.
It's not hope that dies last. Neither is humor a mortician. But the process of losing hope is an important step in our evolution forcing us to develop new dreams.
Just as we destroy our worlds by exposing our minds to the detrimental effects of saturating our attention span with fear and panic, we can dream up something different, too!
Dreams can give joy, and joy gives rise to hope. Hope and joy bring together the forces under the circumstances we need to materialize new dreams together.
We are at a crucial moment in our planets history with our current civilization. We're not undergoing a “global reset”. There is no “new normal”. We are however experiencing an audit of our planetary and human resources in every aspect: not just the material ones, but also at a mental inventory of sorts - including our collective resilience, human consciousness and intellectual maturity.
As such, we need to move forward with courage and if we dare to dream "big" enough, we can expand our horizons into a brave new world whilst stepping up our own evolution beyond just “building back” or aiming for another “normal”. Why fear the extraordinary?
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. — Albert Einstein.
Dare to Dream
I don't know a single person who said "I’ve dreamt too big, lost and felt bad about trying”. But I know plenty of people who didn’t dream at all, only to feel regret of not acting more on their dreams earlier.
There is no shame in working on materializing one's dreams. The process of manifestation is beautiful in itself and independent of a successful outcome, we usually make new friends, experiences and gain new knowledge along the way.
If you can, dream bigger!
We need more dreamers with the courage to materialize the seemingly impossible and work on the daunting moonshots that can only be born in a time of darkness, where even a small candle gets to shine like a sun.
So start dreaming again more. And dream bigger than ever before. The world needs you.
One of the biggest opportunities in modern times is to start dreaming again.
What are you dreaming about?