“Life is but a dream”, said an angel whispering in my ear one morning, when I was too depressed and reluctant to wake up to do anything, let alone go to school.
The persistent thought of life being just a dream provoked anxiety in me, I could not quite clearly make out if that was a real angel or just my mind playing tricks on me. Never the less, that feeling of anxiety and wanting to discover and know more kept on pestering my conscience. I kept on pilling up notes and ideas in my silly little head trying to find out what life is all about. Day in and day out the feeling would be the same, slowly tearing me up inside.
Right at some moment of salvation, I clumsily dropped my school diary off the table and so it landed in an open position with a page facing towards me. I suddenly made a riveting discovery. A glowing beam of discovery entangled me in a spectrum of light… well not the light you’re thinking of silly! And certainly not the one that appears in movies supported by angelic harmonies in the background. No, this was a different kind of light, it was an exhilarating realisation not even close to an ‘aha moment’.
A postcard fell out of the dairy, and it wasn’t just an ordinary one. It stood out and posed a very clear and vivid picture of all the legends, icons and world leaders who ever lived. They all had something special in them and were different in their own right. Pick anyone and they were there, from your Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein and Malcolm X to Tata Nelson Mandela, Steve Jobs, Mahatma Ghandi, Sir Issac Newton, Michael Jackson, and many others I could not immediately recognise guided by my limited knowledge of history. Notice all these people wanted something different in life and searched for wisdom and life’s mysteries. The collage presented me with a weird sense of energy by just giving it one glare, it was a lively and positive feeling and I felt a slight exhilaration down my spine.
It was almost as if I knew exactly what to do, felt as if I had a goal to live up to. But who was I kidding; it was just a postcard full of pictures of some old folks I never even met before right? I mean, what made me dare think I could be like any one of them. So then, I reached out for the postcard and gave it another gaze and as I turned it around, there stood a boldly highlighted message written on the back. This was really the epitome of what replaced a 2 minute marvel to a more permanent imprint in my mind…
This is what it said: “Great and successful people and not so great, unsuccessful people do not differ greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential” by John Maxwell
This sparked a life changing notion in my conscience. The Notion that, “We want to therefore we can”.
I had a tug of war going on in my mind long before this and could not adjust to the fact that, we wake up every day, bust ourselves to make the most of the few hours left before sunset. Hustle and bustle in traffic on the rush to make it to school or work, that job interview, that crucial meeting, the metal beating, loud hooting and grinding machines, the paper work with all the coffee stains and it all seems to be an endless rat race. Traditionally we were told to go to school, get good grades so we could pass and go to college or varsity, study hard to get a degree and graduate, receive a middle income job, buy a house get married have kids and hopefully enough pensions fund to sustain us before we wrinkle and die. And that’s the life of an average man
Well for days this concept had been bothering me and I came to realise that there is something missing. All those people I saw on the collage and the message I read saved me from an everlasting craze of ideologies I had developed in my head. And all this time it was that simple, it really was all that simple. See all those people did not just Exist and pass on from this planet, they Lived. There is always a fine line between the two, of which I advise you make a conscious decision and choose the latter.
It was at this point where I had a sudden realisation of what that angel who spoke to me in my sleep was trying to tell me, “Life is but a dream” and in a dream you can be whatever you want to be and go wherever you want to go. It’s just that easy, now people make the mistake of living life too serious and become afraid to explore.
That angel visited me again in my sleep the other day, he unveiled a lot of mysteries and taught me what I would not forget and that’s divine wisdom. He said to me that, “ it is through the way God created us, that we share some of his greatest powers, the power of manifestation, the power to create, the power to build and also the power to destroy.” I got lost in my thoughts again, at distant places in my imaginary world.
He said again that, “Life is but a dream” and this time I believe I understood perhaps maybe a fraction of what he said because to my surprise it still felt a bit unclear, So I asked him to elaborate a bit further and he said to me; “Well, look at it this way, we are all made in God’s image, so all that which we are, are gods in our own right. We create our reality and dreams through His Grace each and every day. So all your desires and dreams, all that you can conceive, through that very same God given power you can achieve”
At this point I started to listen attentively; I suddenly began to see life in a different perspective. And so I stood silently and listened deeper, and he continued. “All that you see as you look around you, no seriously look around you! All that you see around you as material objects were all at once just a speck of imagination in someone’s mind. From the clothes that you wear, to that blackberry in your pocket, from the television set to candy floss, from that car parked outside to wi-fi and blue-tooth. All this were at first imagination, and back in the 1700’s you could get scolded for talking about taking a picture with a “telephonic communications device” people would seriously laugh at you and then take you in for psychometric analysis.
I started to realise where he was going with this, the very words he spoke lingered in my mind and made me proud to be alive in this day and age. Where man started to live and began to pursue self discovery and seize to merely exist.
He went on to further explain; “You see, we were all made from the same matter and we are the same as starlight and the smallest speck of dust, the vast blue skies and all its creatures we are all one, the million grains of sand on the beach and none can exist without the other, every little grain of sand is accounted for. We all have the ability to illuminate a ray of sunshine to every living creature around us. What we have been given is way too precious and divine; believe me when I say it’s not just in some of us, but in every one of us.”
A quick sigh of relief escaped me and I smiled, this whole conversation reminded me of a poem by Marianne Williamson which goes like this;
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
I simply nodded my head in agreement and as I took time to become aware of my surroundings, I contemplated on my own future’s wildest dreams and all the possibilities I could imagine for the human race. I noticed that for every single invention and discovery that ever was, there were inspired and determined people behind it, no matter how silly or crazy the idea seemed.
If it were not for the Wright Brothers, we could not fly in aeroplanes. If it were not for the love of scientists, inventors and discoverers we would not have electricity, heating, phones, appliances and the list goes on. There would be no medicines, doctors, schools, teachers, and transport. There would be no books, no paintings, no music, no internet and it is all because these beautiful things emanate from the powerful, positive, creative force that resides in each and every one of us. Everything that has been imagined, and manifested into the physical world has done so by virtue of this powerful creative force.
We want to, therefore we can.
I later had a realisation that through deep desire and conscious efforts to achieve something, an automatic responsive alignment to the universe falls in place so that dreams could be fulfilled. In many cases, philosophical, religious and even some wise men have often uttered these words, “Ask and you shall receive”
Now is the time to erase all doubt, all worry and uncertainties and reclaim our natural God given abilities, abilities to build and sustain nations, because we want to. We have the ability to love one another and care for all of nature and her creatures because we want to, the ability to preserve our natural beauty, gifts and talents because we want to. The ability to enjoy the beautiful mountains, waterfalls and deep blue seas, to nurture our children and the elderly, to restore hope back in humanity and its natural ability to be, to manifest and to create a beautiful, rewarding and purposeful Life. To seize to Exist and start Living, not because we are forced to, but because WE WANT TO AND THEREFORE WE CAN!!
Albert Einstein once said, “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions” Go out there and make it a reality.
Now I wake up every day and give gratitude for another day of sunshine, pack my back and just run out… To where? I don’t really care much, but I trust that my journey will be filled with adventure. And as I lie on the million grains of sand and quietly watch the sunset, I still hear the words of an Angel silently linger in my head… “Life is but a dream”

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