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Jun. 19th, 2003 11:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
htothehIs it better to be blind to reality, or blind to dreams?
That little argument has been running around in my head for some time now, and I haven't been able to resolve to my satisfaction. Nor, for that matter, have I been able to properly articulate exactly what the issue is until tonight. On the one side, dreams can be a lot better than trying to bash one's head into the brick wall of reality. On the other, it hurts a lot less what one can't be let down, because one isn't really hoping for anything. I've stuck a lot with the latter. It hurts less because there isn't as much disappointment. In some ways, at least. I don't think humans are made to not dream, so it's either puncture them yourself before they get too big, or wait for them to grow, and for you to get attached to them before they die.
I guess it's not so much an argument as a part of me trying to convice myself that I can deal with pain, that it's no big deal in the grand scheme of things, that it's worth it to keep hoping for impossible things. So far I'm not really going for it.
That little argument has been running around in my head for some time now, and I haven't been able to resolve to my satisfaction. Nor, for that matter, have I been able to properly articulate exactly what the issue is until tonight. On the one side, dreams can be a lot better than trying to bash one's head into the brick wall of reality. On the other, it hurts a lot less what one can't be let down, because one isn't really hoping for anything. I've stuck a lot with the latter. It hurts less because there isn't as much disappointment. In some ways, at least. I don't think humans are made to not dream, so it's either puncture them yourself before they get too big, or wait for them to grow, and for you to get attached to them before they die.
I guess it's not so much an argument as a part of me trying to convice myself that I can deal with pain, that it's no big deal in the grand scheme of things, that it's worth it to keep hoping for impossible things. So far I'm not really going for it.
