The Daydreamer

There comes a point in everyone's life when they realize that the hopes and dreams that they once had are not realistic. This is when the man realizes that he doesn't know who he is. His dreams have clouded his vision and have become his progress. In order to mature, he must realize that his dreams have been worthless, and he must begin making reality.

Too many men spend their whole life dreaming of their great deeds to come. Too many dream of making it in business or in the arts or some other area...they never put one foot in front of the other and start actually making something. Could Tolkien have ever written the Lord of the Rings without actually sitting down and writing?

I’m not writing about suppressing our dreams, visions and ambitions, but I am writing about doing something about them. The Proverbs are full of statements about lazy people…and this is what we’re talking about aren’t we? Men who daydream and don’t put hard work to the idea.

Proverbs says that the lazy man thinks he’s wiser than seven men who give a sensible answer. He has an incredible desire for wealth, fame or notoriety, but he’s unwilling to focus and pursue this with tenacious devotion. He has a myriad of reasons for his never ending failure to achieve, but they never involve his own laziness. Proverbs says that a hard working man will gain wealth, but a lazy man destroys it.

The point is that I’ve had a lot of things that I’ve done, and a lot of things that I’d like to do. I need to pursue and focus on exactly what I am to pursue with tenacity. We need to examine ourselves under a hard eye. I am the daydreamer….