I want to hear about your dreams, not the sleeping kind, but the fantasies you want for the future. For example, for years I’ve wanted to eat New York cheesecake in New York City. Perhaps you have more serious ones, too, like wanting to be a parent or to solve some mystery. And perhaps you have dreams that don’t directly concern you yourself. I’d love for you to share.
Dreams
31 Tuesday Jul 2012
I have many dreams and I think it’s awesome that you’ve asked about this because how often do we get to share this without feeling conceited or immodest? I’ll still wrestle to share things here because it’s putting them into words, it’s breathing life into them, in a way that hasn’t really happened… but I want to believe these things might be possible and also believe that it’s okay to want these things, to aspire and to have ambition.
* I want to be an international speaker, making a difference for people talking about love and connection, intimacy and relationships. I want to have powerful conversations and inspire other powerful conversations.
* I dream about being a mother and getting to know a little person and seeing my partners interact as chosen family, parent-like people.
* I dream about pursuing and achieving my PhD qualification and becoming a ‘Doctor of Love’
* I dream of enough personal wealth to be able to travel and spend time with my various loves and to travel *with* them… this is purely whimsical and I’m trying not to feel guilty about the desire to be comfortable and to be able to spend without worrying.
* I dream about learning to speak French from the bedroom of some lovely French lover(s).
* I dream about what it might look like to have some kind of wedding/relationship celebration, and I dream about what if I *could* have more than one and have it be contextually and personally meaningful.
* I dream about driving a really really fast and beautiful car James Bond style through Europe.
* I dream of living in a group/communal situation where there are several people and partnerships/families living collectively and supporting one another socially, emotionally, financially and structurally.
* I dream about having dinner with Darren Hayes because he’s lovely and I admire him greatly as an artist and as a person.
* I dream about being the ‘pointy head’ of something big – a business or company, where the purpose is ‘profit for purpose’ and that it involves a context for creating intangible moreness in social and cultural structures, people more connected, looking out for one another, communicating better, working together, building actively a future society rather than existing in passive consumption. It would be something that gives back and in doing so generates the moreness. Somehow.
* I dream about being able to visit Portland and do Havi from The Fluent Self’s ‘Rally’ destuckification and projectising course.
* I dream about living in the inner suburbs of Melbourne and enjoying a sense of interconnected community and shared lives and experiences, drinking tea and cocktails, wandering the streets and finding surprising and delightful spaces, moments and experiences shared and celebrated.
* I dream that K’s company Rebel Empire has some kind of amazing break where they excel to the next levels the amazing choreography and performance work they’re doing in film and television, and as an extension of this that someone casts K in an appropriately deadly and pretty antihero role for something – preferably a long running US based television series.
I have lots of dreams :)
I want to live by Lake Baikal in Siberia for a year and take a photo of the lake at the same time every day. It freezes over in winter, so you’d get to see it as ice, as slushy when it melts, and as liquid. I was there in 2002 and wanted to stay.
I dream of self-publishing a graphic novel, of moving to British Columbia, of taking my partner to all the places he’s ever wanted to visit.
I want to graduate with a Bachelors of Science. I want to pursue marrying the man I love. And pursue masters in Animation abroad, get back home, start a business, have a family, and start a school that teaches religion and art as essential bridges of culture, as opposed to building bricks of the sectarian divide of our sad, sad excuse of a country.
:)
What are yours, Chally?
I want to be a mother.
You would be a phenomenal mother :)
Now you have gone and made me teary. Thank you, and wishing you very well indeed with your dreams.