Your Dreams Matter
Don't ever, ever stop dreaming. This world can beat us down. Mean people can try to silence us, bully us, manipulate us into believing our dreams don't matter. But they do.
Your big dreams matter. Don't stop dreaming. Some of the most amazing things we experience today are built on the dreams of others: moonshots, crazy ideas, "impossible" pursuits.
Your small dreams matter, too. Your desire to see a waterfall, read a book, or simply spend more time with a loved one. These things matter.
Don't ever, ever stop dreaming. This world can beat us down. Mean people can try to silence us, bully us, manipulate us into believing our dreams don't matter. But they do.
So don't stop dreaming.
I came across this Langston Hughes poem in the introduction of a book I'm reading for the final course, Trauma and Social Work, of my MSW program, and was inspired to write this post. Too many people I know, young to old, give up on their dreams, big and small, too soon. The book is "Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others" by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky with Connie Burk.
The Dream Keeper
by Langston Hughes
Bring me all of your dreams, You dreamers,
Bring me all of your
Heart melodies
That I may wrap them
In a blue cloud-cloth
Away from the too-rough fingers Of the world.
What are your dreams? I'd love to hear about them and talk about them with you for the upcoming season of the Drifter Life podcast or in an asynchronous (and optionally anonymous) interview format. Contact me if you want to chat!
Your dreams matter, as do mine. ☮️❤️