Impact of Dreams

I had a very traumatic dream last night. Normally, I'll have a scary dream and I will have to turn the light on and read a little to forget it. Scary dreams are only temporary; I'll be stuck with the images of this dream for quite a while. In the dream, some people and I came upon a motorcycle accident. One person was already dead and the other was severely injured. Somehow there was an active phone in an abandoned house nearby. I was able to contact emergency services and the severely injured person was saved.

The traumatic part of the dream was the very realness of the severely injured person. Given the choice, I usually prefer not to deal with mangled bodies but the "right" thing was overriding in this case. Although somewhat cliche, due to a MASH episode I watched earlier in the evening, I extended this dream to myself in a combat or personal preservation situation. How would I deal emotionally with images of people around me who were mangled and in pain? It's one thing to romanticize fights or combat but the reality of people screaming in pain is a wholly different thing. I am going to have to focus my thoughts quite dramatically in order to convince my psyche that I can close off my repulsion to such images. Of course, there will be times that the horror that these atrocities exist in our world will leak through. I will shed my pain with tears and move on. That is the nature of the beast.


Introspectively,


Worthless

my photo entry

I'm posting this so that my profile photo has somewhere to reside.






Yeah, that's right, I'm a face painter.


Maybe the next World Cup!

Worthless

A fool and his lottery money ....

Yep, on occasion, I have been known to activate and engage that lump of gray matter 3 feet above my ass.

There are certain quotes that I read that seem to strike a chord with my own thoughts or opinions.

"Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich; that is why the bishops dare not denounce it fundamentally." - George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Every man wants to be independently wealthy. If they are not, they long to be. They dream of what life would be like if money were no object. It may not even be monetarily based. Sometimes I think that if I owned a large piece of land in the middle of nowhere where I could be self-supporting, I would be happy.

I am a realist though. I will have to work hard for many years in order to accomplish this goal.

It seems to me that too many fools truly believe that they can become wealthy through the lottery or some other get rich quick scheme. There is no such thing as get rich quick.

Sure, occasionally, I purchase a lottery ticket. I participate in that dream of instant millions. It's exhilirating and fun to dream. I play only occasionally because I know how low the odds are of winning. I'm adding the third axiom of life:

3. In life, there are NO shortcuts.

Even winning the lottery, you had to buy a ticket with hard earned money.

I despise the thought of people who put their faith in winning the lottery or winning a law suit in order to accomplish their dreams. No one owes them ANYTHING. If you want it, go get it otherwise keep quiet. Sharing dreams is one thing; expecting someone to give you your dreams is another thing.


Grumbling,

Worthless