Dreams that Don’t Come True
April 21, 2008
There’s a lot of stuff I wanted to do when I was little. I wanted to be everything under the sun-a cop, an FBI agent, a ballerina, an actress, a writer, a singer, and more. I was listening to this song by one of my favorite singers named Plumb and one of her songs for her kids off her new album Blink is a song called In My Arms and she’s talking about how one day they won’t have their innocence and they will find out more stuff (one line says “you’ll someday see the truth for lies”) and how she won’t always be there when they get hurt and stuff. One of the lines goes something like:
Castles they might crumble
Dreams may not come true
But you are never all alone
Cause I will always
Always love you
In a interview about this song she said her husband, who’s a big dreamer, says that line about dreams not coming true is kinda sad. I think so too. It makes me think of the disappointment you get when you work hard for something you’ve dreamt of for so long and then it doesn’t work out someway or another. What do you do when your dreams don’t come true? A lot of people say some dreams may never come true but they never say what you do with that dream that never came true. It’d be hard to forget about something you thought of for long time like that. I just wonder about the stuff I wanna do and then I just hope that it all comes true and all of these things I aspire come true. I don’t wanna be everything anymore but I wanna do a few things…a few things that mean a lot and should come true.
Even with the love of family, the dream that once was close to coming true but died, would still kill me. Is that crazy? Maybe I put a lot in what I do, but I just want some stuff to happen. One of the worst things that could happen is watch something turn into nothing but probably just as bad, if not worse is watching nothing turn into nothing. As in, maybe despite the fact that some stuff doesn’t come true, I’d still rather try and go for it then sit on my butt and do nothing and get old. (Remember when I said in that Growing Up Too Fast? post about the age of old age when it gets to that time where it feels as if birthdays come every week?) 
