Dream a Little Dream of Me

The topic for this week's League of Extraordinary Bloggers is simple, yet full with so many possibilities.

I have a dream...

Now I tend to have very vivid dreams that involve all kinds of kooky things like a killer ostrich trying to peck away at my heart or an ocean adventure dream that finds me traveling the deepest depths of the seas in a swanky submarine that makes McDonald's food on command. But, I'm not going to talk about the dreams I have when I'm tucked in at night. And I'm certainly not going to discuss the dream of having cybernetic implants installed on me so I can live forever as a really fun and kind cyborg (unlike that damn Vera.) Instead, read on for a personal dream I've had for a very long time...


I've never really talked about this in great detail, though I suppose this isn't really something very shocking, but I love to write. It is the one thing I feel like I can get right in this world because it is something that comes from my heart. I simply love to write. Even when I'm dead tired and the words are struggling to reach the air around me, I love it. Part of why I love it so much is that I feel so alive when I am telling a story. There is just something magical about wanting to share a vision from your mind with other people that will just get it, and enjoy it too.

So my dream is to one day have a story of my creation published. I mean, I would love to be tapped to be the writer for a full length She-Ra film, but let's be real, some dreams will just never happen. I fear that even the basic dream of having something of mine published might never happen either. Who knows what the future holds, but I do know that I keep dreaming for that experience to one day happen.

Growing up I was always told that writing was something to be treated as a hobby. I needed to focus on real life goals, the kind that can produce results and steady paychecks. So that is what I did. I figured out some things that I was interested in and I went through a never ending journey through college thinking that my life would be figured out once I was finished. Only I haven't figured out diddley squat four years after graduating. My career as a mental health professional has imploded. I'm figuring out what I'm going to do day by day, and yet, I am figuring out nothing. I will be fine, I always am, but I'm realizing that I might have made a mistake in my life choices. I can't go back, only forward. So I dream. Part of my dreams, of course, involve writing.

It is funny, last summer my brother and I were digging through our parent's attic. The whole ritual of digging through their attic seems to happen every summer. I don't know why that is, though the winter would be better. Anyways, last summer I found a little paperback diary that I had written when I was in the third grade or so. I had pretty much forgotten about this rinky-dink diary, which was set up with a question-of-the-day journaling exercise. I got such a kick out of the answers. It was like I was reading a stranger's diary.

One of the questions was, "What do you want to be when you grow up" and my answer was, "A writer." I was so shocked when I read that. I had no recollection of writing that down, and I pride myself for my memory! It was just a surreal moment because it was like my 8 year old self was trying to send a message into the future. Reading that answer just rattled me. I knew something back then that I had somehow ignored along the way.

It is frustrating because I have so many stories that I want to tell, and they are just sitting in notebooks, patiently waiting to be told. I want to tell stories that are new and exciting, stories involving perspectives that don't always shine to the top. I want to tell a great story that will empower girls and women everywhere much like She-Ra was doing for us back in the day. I hope I can have all of my stories completed and ready to share with the world. That is a dream I hope can come true.

For now though, I have Diary of a Dorkette. Each post comes filled with so much love you could just adopt it like one of those Cabbage Patch Kids. Only don't, because that whole sentence was beyond weird. Anyways, now that I have shared my dream, let's look at what other members of the League are dreaming of...

-Joe is dreaming of a special future...
-BigIV has a dream involving recapturing those 1st experiences with your toy favorites...
-Newt brings it home with his dream, I mean brings it home! We all need to get along!
-Charles dreams of writing an epic Chivalric romance...
-G.I. Jigsaw has a dream perfect for most collectors of the action figure variety...
-Chris dreams of being a comic book writer...
-Daniel has a guest share his dream, for a world free of homo superiors (I'm just gonna say next summer can't get here soon enough)
-The Las Vegas Yankee dreams of the day when everyone can simply enjoy life...
-Victoria dreams of visiting a place that truly seems so cool!
-Brian has a dream that, should it come true, will be amazing for dorky folk everywhere...
-Yelinna dreams of a simpler time, and I am totally in agreement!

So that is about it! Be sure to visit Cool and Collected for more posts on this week's topic. Don't go too far, because there will be plenty of fun stuff coming up soon.