DREAM A LITTLE DREAM
- Stephie B
- Apr 18, 2020
- 7 min read

As I was standing by the elevator, I looked to my left, I looked to my right and I remembered a dream I had approximately 17 years ago. It was a dream that was reoccurring for a week and a dream that I remember vividly to this very day. I had just watched Matrix 2 and when I went to bed, I dreamt I was in a hallway with doors on either side, only the hallway was never ending, like the scene with the Matrix key master.
I was looking for something, but I didn't know what I was on the hunt for. In search of the answer, I decided to start opening doors. I started with the first door on the left. Behind each door, was a dimension of unknown creatures that had never been seen by human kind. Creatures not of this world. I was racing against time and talked to the first creature I saw, "have you seen it?"
The creature asked, "What are you looking for?"
I said, "I don't know."
The creature replied, "No, I haven't seen it. It's not here. Keep looking."
So I ran out and went to the door across the hall, same conversation, different creatures, different world.
I would wake up tired every morning. What I had dreamt about, almost felt real even though I knew it was not. At night, when I would fall asleep, my dream would continue from where it left off the night before. This went on for about a week. I never found the answer and I never ever forgot the dream.
Today, as I was standing at the elevator and looked at the doors on the left and the right of the hallway, I felt like I did in my dream. I am constantly in search of the next step not knowing exactly what that is. Where I am in my life, the condo hallway, and how I feel, had me wondering if I had manifested the feeling that I feel today. It was the feeling that triggered the memory. I feel lost.
In these uncertain times where nobody knows their up from their down, their left from their right, we are searching for a cause unknown. How do we get out of this and how do we go back to normal living once this is over? The next step is unknown. It reminded me of where the world is at this very moment. Future unknown, next step unknown, answer unknown, but we are still looking.
Day 32 of the national shutdown and world alteration. We are looking, we are searching, we are looking into doors and windows of our neighbours where behind them, a world different than ours exists. How did we get here? How did this happen? How much longer is this going to go on for? How is it that social beings such as humans are encouraged to stay home, isolated and discouraged from interaction and socialization? How is it that we are now able to get a $5000 fine simply for speaking to somebody at the park within 6 feet of eachother?
This is worldwide. This isn't a region. This isn't a country. This is the world. The world.
I often sit and think of a solution to this nationwide obstacle that we are all trying to overcome.
What will the world look like when this is over? What will the impact be? Today, I had to go to the post office. Forget about being in close proximity of another person, even making eye contact felt like a crime.
Social isolation is not a solution to the nation wide problem. The "facts" delivered by the "reliable" media outlets are inconsistent. It makes me question if what they are telling. Where are the unbiased facts? Our news is delivered to us based on statistics but statistics are only as true as what is reported.
Schools have been affected. The amount of money being pumped into this project to encourage a problem-focused solution, our children will be paying for it for years to come through taxes which are forever certain.
What is the answer aside from steering clear of our fellow humans as if they are plague-ridden? The answer is simple. Love. Unity. Acts of kindness.
This plague is a problem much bigger than all of us combined. This COVID-19 plague is unexplainable. As I was watching a snip-it of the news last night, the newswoman brought up some great points that caught my attention. We still do not have any certain facts on the cause of how this plague came to be. No details on patient zero. Who are they? What did they eat? Where did they go after? How did this spread? How was COVID-19 born? Yes, there is speculation and there are stories, but what are the facts? I don't want a story. I want an agenda of their day. I want details on who they are, what they did, where they went, what they ate and knowledge on how one person was able to infect the entire world either physiologically or psychologically. Usually, the world should not care, but in this case, we need to know. It is important. Understanding the cause will help us find the cure.
The magnitude of the effect that this has had on the nation, there is only one answer, love. We are being encouraged to stay home, self-isolate, stop our children from going to school, stop many from making money to survive.
Let's change perspective. What makes the world go round? Acts of kindness. Out of kindness, miracles happen.
As unexplainable as COVID-19 can be, the miracle can be just as unexplainable. We need to be kind to eachother. Help humanity and those in need. Create solutions. We have a choice. We can numb our minds by watching television and movies that keep us stagnant and complacent, or we can all be a part of the solution and the cure with the gifts that we were endowed with at birth. We all have them, but we don't believe we do. This is what I call our superpower.
Instead of sucking up the resources that are given to us every day, start creating resources that may be helpful in working toward a solution. If we use up the existing resources, at some point, they will deplete. Masks are one example, gloves are another, respirators, hand sanitizer, the list goes on.
I was speaking to someone a while back and they said, "people dream too big". So did the guys at the top and guess what, they acted and made their dreams come true. They created and are contributing to solutions in this nationwide war we are all fighting against our invisible enemy.
If we change perspective and look at that statement, and remember the saying that if you can dream it, you can make it happen, maybe you are dreaming your big dreams because you have the ability to make it happen.
It all starts with step 1. But if you don't take step 1, your dream will merely be a dream. Step 2 may be unknown. That's OK. Worry about step 2 when the time is right. You will know because step 2 will inevitably manifest as you near the end of step 1. It is fact. Sometimes, it's about trial and error. Starting a new step is never fun. You may not get it right the first time. You may fail as you progress on your journey. You may get frustrated when the next step seems light years away. But the harder you work at your current step, the closer the next step will be.
I do not know my steps. I am walking my hallway in search of something. I know what my goal is however, there is a great distance between the start line and the finish line. I'm walking it though and I am somewhere in the middle. Maybe I will find a warp zone or a turbo boost to propel me further in my journey, and maybe I won't. The most important thing is that I am creating. I am doing my best. This is all I can do.
We need to create. Create solutions that will help us find the cure.
Believe it or not, it all starts with something simple. Kindness. Why? Sounds naive and some may even scoff at the thought when we have some of the world's greatest minds and scientists working towards complex solutions. We forget that miracles exist and they happen every day. As humans, we take too much credit. There is something much bigger that is working behind the scenes. We were all taken by surprise. We were all side-swiped by the COVID-19 MAC Truck and it hurt humanity, badly. When we are kind to one another, magic happens. It creates synergy. Out of synergy, miracles happen. Beauty unfolds. A new world can be born. Start creating people. Be kind. When we are mean to eachother, it creates misery and synergy is lost.
Right now, in this very moment, kindness is the answer to creating the synergy needed to fight this global pandemic. The unexplainable power that makes miracles happen.
I know most will look at this post and say, this girl has lost her mind. That's ok. But you haven't tried. If you haven't tried something, you can't say it doesn't work. There are acts of kindness being done every day and the magic and the smiles it creates contributes to the miraculous cure that will one day be found.
You were blessed with your minds and your hearts for a reason. You are part of the nationwide jigsaw puzzle. Create. Whatever you are creating, create. A book, a song, a product, a service, anything. Create. This will turn up the kindness. I promise. It will make you feel good. You don't believe me? Try. Sounds so naive, I know. Sounds so innocent and simple. But, we haven't tried. So try. Do nice things for people. We need to make a change. Up till now, our worth is based on what the external world can see. There is a layer to us that is much more powerful and much more worthy, our hearts and our minds. This is what makes you you and what makes you valuable.
If we are kind, nice, and respect the four pillars of being a person, honesty, loyalty, integrity and respect, I promise, miracles will happen. Synergy will be created and all of this will be a story of the past.
~Stephie B~
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