Dreams

Since we are little we dream of something of achieving or being like someone, we see artists, famous people on TV, read and hear about them or watch movies that impact us for the story, and we wish our life will be like that story, like a certain character or certain life. In our house we see in our family people we admire or a neighbor, there is always someone to admire and dream of, and one day, be like that person, or achieve what he or she has achieved.

But as we grow up, our dreams change, life changes, or better said, changes us, and everything with which we dreamed, from one moment to another seems just that.... A dream. So we call ourselves crazy for even having dared to think like that and we justify the thought by saying "I was a little kid, what could I've known about life," but we do not think that a little kid, with no worries, no responsibilities, limits or noise in her or his head, could think only and exclusively of what its heart desired, a complete pure thought, where you could assure that everything was possible.

Unfortunately the difference between "When I grow up" and "When I was as a child" is not only the change of future tense to past tense. In this process many things can happen, life can take unexpected turns where our heart can be damaged, limiting our ability to achieve many things for fear of being hurt again. More probably, realizing our dreams involve fully expose of our damaged heart. But in order to not feel that pain, that suffering, sadness or disappointment, we are willing to sacrifice those dreams without realizing also, that the sacrifice will cause us even greater pain for not seeing them fulfilled.

There is never an easy way to put yourself "out there" again, when you have been hurt so much and you know more your tears than your laugh. It takes time to get those feelings back, you can't push anyone to return to a normal life, because if something is true, is that after being hurt, you can never go back be the same. Those dreams we had as children, dreams without a plan to follow, where we had just an image or a thought of who or what we wanted and we used to base our whole life around this, those dreams never go away, they live in our heart forever. 
Like the eccentric character Katherine in the movie Under the Tuscan Sun  says: "Never lose your childish enthusiasm, and things will come your way". So never give up on something or someone if it makes you feel like a little kid dreaming and wishing upon a star, that for sure, is what brings passion to your heart.