* Can the co-existence of ideal world and real world be possible…?

Someone whispered to me from a distance as I was walking into the woods.  She seemed to be asking me something which I couldn’t figure it out at first. But as the wind and the dust gently and slowly settled down, I seemed to hear a trembling voice, which was trying to reach out to me, as if she was in great pain from within…

“In an idealistic world, it will be most wonderful that… but we are just humans with so many realities of daily living. Does anyone expect people to switch in and out between the ideal world and real world…?” As she finished uttering those words, her voice started to break and fade hurriedly into the night like a frightened child being seen doing something wrong… She seemed to be running away from something or maybe someone…

“Is it possible for such a co-existence…?” She turned her head, and looked back at me with her tearing doubtful eyes, as she echoed those few trailing words before her shadow withered helplessly into the distant darkness and the night became cold and quiet again…

“Must we live in two different worlds?” I asked myself.

It seems to me that people who cannot be or are not able to be themselves, tend to see the ideal world and the real world as two distinctive and contrasting worlds. It is as if one is for the mind, while the other is for the body.

There is not much difference between our left brain and right brain. The left brain is the logical world or real world, while the right brain is the ideal world or emotional world. Until today, scientists and researchers have not yet successfully figured it out how our left and right brains can function as one integrated entity.

But we don’t have to go very far to know that we are always switching between the two brains, one moment we are thinking logically, the next moment we break down and cry. We do it so often that we don’t even realize it.

The ideal world is our dream, is our source of passion, and it gives rise to our hopes and energy to be alive. The only thing that can make the two worlds different is when we stop pursuing our dreams. Doing nothing and making no effort to move towards our dreams, that is when our dreams remain still as dreams, and they become unreal, turning into day-dreams.

Just look at many people in the past who have successfully turned their dreams into reality, like how Walt Disney has put life into his imaginations, and how the Wright brothers have built our first flying machine…

Our destiny is in our hands – have the courage to live in our “ideal world” in the real world. Even if we do not reach our ideal world in the end, we will be happy and comforted to know that we have at least sown the seeds and have spared no effort in pursuit of our dream. We will also not feel regretful that we have wasted our entire life living in other people’s dreams, since we know for sure that as we live our life every day, we are journeying a day closer towards our ideal dream world…

The feeling is exciting, real and fulfilling when we know we are living and journeying closer to where we want to be. We do not have to live in contradictions, in agony, and be what others want us to be any longer. Now is the chance for all of us to be ourselves, to re-discover who we are and what we want now, yes now – at this very moment…

Practice makes us better, but it is in taking the action that makes all the difference.

Lets live our dream today and everyday… my friends!