DON'T FORGET TO REMEMBER Hang on to your dreams!
You will need memories of pleasant times, pleasant things, and people as you grow older. It's all those "little things" which made childhood so enjoyable that we tend to look back and enlarge upon them as we add years to our age
Many such memories remain hidden away in the random wrinkles of our brains around a core of a holiday, a special event, a day of exceptional meaning to us, or a departure we once made from the seeming routine process of our young lives. Try to recall how the process of creation of such dreams and re-do a few of them for today.
Give some thought to those things which decorate our early dreams. Older people continue to want and desire things they don't really expect to ever possess. We, as little kids, certainly did not really expect to ever have most of the things of which we dreamed - such thing as as being able to fly through the air as does a bird; to swim under the wave-tossed surfaces of the sea like a fish or sit in your home and watching things happening on the other side of Earth. So many things we now accept as normal, were the raw ingredients of our dreams. We used to imagine we would someday hear voices and see pictures of other people all over the world, and we tried our best to solve the unwanted experiences of flood, fire, famine,strife, trouble and outright war - all those things which threatened us and the oldsters among whom we lived and grew.
Most memories, however, seem to have to do with people. The events which took place and cause us to remember for former times, we caused by people. In back of each and every one of those happenings we remember there were known or secret desires, needs, wants, or loves of individuals - people of all kinds.
In looking back upon our memories we in invariably associated events with certain people we knew at that time. In developing our own dreams now as older persons, we should, even must be concerned with people we know. They are living out their dreams and what they do - the events they cause now, today - however trivial they may seem to be - may well be the most important influence in your life - even the shorter one you are "finishing out". Their opinion of you as a co-creator of their own dreams is an indication of the way people will think and speak of you in years ahead.
Children seem to sense it. The way to build a good store of pleasant memories is to work sincerely in maintaining good friendships with good people you meet. In truth, you are both working on the same project.
A.L.M. March 1, 2005 [c480wds]
