Dream away, because dreams remind us of hope.

Hope that becomes courage,

courage that manifests itself in little steps forward,

steps that over time create a new world,

a new world that looks a lot different

than the one you once knew.

So dream away.

Dream away because we have all been blessed with the ability

to take nothings and make them some things.

We've all been given the power to take blank spaces and make them landscapes,

to see with our eyes worlds that aren't yet there.

And what a shame it would be to repress that gift.

To label it fiction.

To keep it next to our books and our movies.

How much a tragedy.

To allow it to be merely a temporary escape.

Instead of the permanent beginning it was meant to be. So dream away. Let it lead you, because dreams,

they'll either become the stories we tell or the regrets we hide away, a personal evolution or untapped potential.

The reason we jump out of bed in the morning or the reason we keep our eyes closed, clinging to the last few seconds of joy before we confine ourselves,

to the self-made prisons we built, the invisible walls that separate what we see from the possibility

a short trip away. But look around you, one might say.

This is reality, and this looks a lot different than the dreams that bounce around in my head.

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