Dream a little Dream

You know? There is something kinda all warm and fuzzy and kind comfortable about Sunday afternoons. It's a time to be reflective and yet make new plans and set new goals. It's the first day of the new week. Some would argue and say it's the last day of the week, but I learned in Mrs. Caufield's 5th grade class that Sunday is actually the 1st day of the week.
I remember in highschool.. my sister and I would plan nothing on Sunday's, which in the little Oklahoma town I grew up in, wasn't hard to do. We would lay in the warm sunshine on the trampoline and listen to Casey Kasem do the top 40 countdown. We were living the life with a cold soda as we were "keeping our feet on the ground and reaching for the stars". I never did understand what that meant growing up.
I thought maybe Casey had gotten too comfortable doing the voice of Shaggy from Scooby Doo and had taken a few too many hits off the bong and was just spouting off, but if you think about what he said, he isn't too far off base. Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars... Stay focused on what's real... but never give up on your dream.
When I was little boy, I wanted to be Bill Cosby. Not the pudgy pudding salesman or the bumbling Dr. Huxtable, but the REAL Bill Cosby who got started as a comedian. I had a few of his LP's and we would put them on and I can remember memorizing his material and regurgitating it with what I thought was the body language he would be using. I had my family in stitches from the time I was 4.
I still want to be a comedian, but I keep my feet on the ground by remembering how hard it would be and how little they get paid... Well that is until they become discovered.
It never hurts to dream a little and I have a great dream that one day I will use my wit and words to make my living. I'm not sure if I will ever achieve that dream, but I do have the dream. Many folks get so entangled in their day to day, they forget to remember the dreams of their youth. Kids, jobs, mortgages, it takes a lot to make life work and I can easily see how a dream could be forgotten. But it doesnt' have to be. Life should never be so hard as to give up on our dreams. When we cease to dream, we cease to live.