Bridging Our Aspirations • Into a Parallel Dreamland (OW004)
⁘ Created: 2026-01-29 ⁘ Updated: 2026-02-14
When it's all about "my dream" for a better world with highlight on "me" — our dreams compete. Even if they are so very similar. Stemming from the same underlying concerns. We don't want to share the spotlight. It's not truly about "us".
Our lofty hopes remain a pipe-dream because it's so hard for us to get over ourselves. Attending to shared patterns and the underlying essence of our aspirations. It's not an assets or logistics problem. It's a "me me" fixation problem.
Oh how I wish we could all freely share our dreams, nurture our potentials together, turning harmonic dreams into harmonic realities. Yet it's all downright impossible when your dreams must exist in a bubble you control. Where it's your dreams versus their dreams, where you fail to recognize the shared fabric in your dreams.
But truly, it matters not if it's marigolds or crysanthemums, when the pollinators come and the butterflies come all the same. The dream where at the end of the day everything orbits around you and serves your needs. That's not the universal dream. That's the dream of a perverse, egotic creator.
Should we not seek the bridges between our dreamlands? Can we not find the essential heart in our aspirations? Where synergy naturally follows from embracing the inner spirit and underlying truth in our dreams and visions. Sweet dreams are not made of cheese, where every rat is looking for something to nibble in their holes. That's just the rat race. That's not the path to a better world.
What say, next time someone shares with you their aspirations and the works they have set in motion, you actually look into it. Instead of waiting for your turn to show off what you have done, that's kind of similar, but a little bit better. Appreciate the merits, look for the parallels, highlight what you share.
And of that shared essence, recognized, extracted by attending to patterns that matter beyond your little box, something greater than any of us alone may be born. The environment and its resources, in itself, is not the main obstacle to the fulfillment of our greatest and loftiest hopes and dreams.
The main obstacle is a mindset where you must be the lead act and the final beneficiary of all of these aspirations. When the dreams we all dream are seen through the filter of your belly button, stuffed into your little box, everything is corrupted. Separation, fragmentation, contrast, contradiction. That is the dark habitat of your ego. There we have the root poison, the arch-nemesis of any utopia that could be, if we all worked together toward it.
Then, dream free, dream together, and dream of a shared essence. Of that, one day yet, a brighter and better world will come to blossom. Until then, here we are, dreaming of what should be and deconstructing the things that should not be. Be well and keep it real for all.