All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
The creative works of Disney have long been an inspiration for me. My earliest memories were filled with the beautiful animations of Disney films. Jungle Book may have been my first movie, followed by Snow White, Mary Poppins, Cinderella, Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang, and so many others. I found it significant when searching for topics on Dreams that my eyes fell almost immediately on this one by Walt Disney himself. Why is it that we give up on our Dreams? So often we, as adults, forget our sleeping dreams and never bother about daydreams. Who has time for daydreams?? Yet these are the very things that often inspire greatness in others, or spur some towards much needed change in themselves and the world around them. How much power do we really have to change or influence our world? A difficult question to ponder much less find a hard answer to. We do have power over what we choose to think about on a daily basis and this can have a positive ripple effect on those around us. All of us have at one time or another been uplifted by the simple kindness from a stranger. Dreams can serve us this way by directing our thoughts and activities toward a higher goal for our real selves, the one that gets lost in the daily grind. Ten minutes of dreaming can go a long way toward inner peace of mind. It is a muscle, so to speak, of the child-like spirit inside us, the one that still finds wonder in the world. If we can exercise it we can increase this muscle, we can increase its positive influence in our lives.
