Why settle for a Hamster if you could dream of Dragons?
Do you remember those dreams we'd make up as kids?
When asked to design your "dream house", we'd draw pictures of castles, with diamonds on the walls.
When we thought about who we wanted to become, we'd conjure up dreams of ballerinas on a glittering stage in front of thousands of people in an awed audience, heroes in capes pulling people out of collapsing buildings and impending danger, and astronauts exploring the great unplumbed depths of space.
When we thought about our dream pet - herds of wild horses would gallop through the moon, manes flying and eyes bright. Golden-scaled dragons would slide in through the window and curl up on our bed, visible to the vividly imagining mind's eye. Clouds of butterflies settled on our fingers whenever we called - swayed by the sound of our voices.
And now? What do we imagine now? Now… we're happy to attain our one-bedroom flat, our 'normal' studying or working lives, and our pet hamster Sammybelle.
I'm not trying to kill poor Sammybelle the hamster, but where did our dragon go? Where did the dream of being someone great - someone that can change the world - go?
As we go through the process of 'growing up', for so many of us - our dreams don't grow with us. Instead of our beautiful dragon dream, we become "realistic", and we shrink our dreams to fit what we perceive as what is possible for our current selves - and we get hamsters instead of dreaming of dragons.
Changing your dreams of a dragon - whether this was your dream career, relationship, degree, or home - into a figurative hamster is something we do without realising. But now - look for it. See it. Realise it. Stop settling for your hamster - as sweet as Sammybelle may be, she's not all you can achieve.
Keep your dreams big and bold - and instead of shrinking the dream to fit your current self, your current capabilities, and your current opportunities… grow yourself to fit your dream. Look through the world through the lens of your beautiful dragon, see the opportunites there are to take just one step closer to your dragon. In the words of the incredible Trent Shelton: "Allow your reality to catch up to your dreams". Not the other way around.
I know you can do this - keep dreaming, keep growing, keep taking one step closer to your dragon. One day, you will fly. And maybe Sammybelle the hamster can sit on your shoulder, while you soar on your dream dragon high above the clouds.
So... what is your dragon dream?
