Dreams versus Realities

For a week or so, I have been so busy organizing

and reorganizing a business structure, that it

seems that my days and nights are blended together and if it wasn't for the sun rising, and the sun setting, I wouldn't even know what time of day it is or what day of the week or month it is.

I guess that the nature of an Internet business, your days and nights can sometimes become blended.

If, you spend a fair amount of time online, editing, designing, tweaking and other stuff to your website that after a while it can be all consuming. You step outside from your work area and you realize that you can't remember the last time you went outside to get some fresh air. That's the nature of projects, where you are so focused that you even forget to return your mother's voicemail because you were busy troubleshooting some source code on a website and didn't want to lose your place in the line of code, so you promised yourself that you would call her back in a little while and then that little while becomes an hour and then a few hours and before you know it, a couple of days have gone by and you're still working on that website.

I stepped away from the project that I was working on to take a walk to the post office and pick up the mail, wow, I guess I should go to the post office more often, because the little mailbox was bulging with mail. I could barely pull it out of its small box and I'm sure some of the mail, fell back on the inside floor of the mail room, so I'll have to get that mail, when the post office reopens. The walk home from the post office was equally as interesting, because I forgot how many dogs are not on a lease in the neighborhood, so walking faster than usual felt good too!

It was too much mail to sort through, mostly magazines and colored brochures to attend this or that conference, and I had enough with being on the computer so much working on projects, so I decided to take a trip up North, and you know what? The most I remember about that trip up North, is dozing off to sleep as soon as the airplane reached its cruising altitude and this poem from Curthom. Enjoy until next time.

"You have to inhabit a reality, often found in the dreams that wake you from your sleep.

A dream where the vision is as narrowly understood as the stupor of sudden awakeness.

Within this blur of confusion, clarity is as instant as the epiphany that haunts the memory of the dream." by Curthom

Life As An Endless Dream

I found myself walking through Manila Chinatown searching for a tofu maker to purchase a kilo of tofu. I felt like having some tofu that evening with some batchoy, a Chinese vegetable that goes very well over steamed rice. It's been a long time since I had that dish, tofu and batchoy over steam rice, so I didn't mind walking all over Chinatown to find the tofu maker.

My walk reminded me of a dream I had once in which I didn't want to wake up from, because the dream seemed so real and something good was about to happen to me and suddenly the alarm clock went off and I struggled within the dream to ignore the alarm to no avail, I awakened.

Since "dreams are a reflection of the active mind when awake," according to The Book of Curthom, "it's not so important that we don't remember all the details of the dream, the importance is that we dream. Dreams are the pleasures of our desires that we inhibit during our waking hours, so when we dream, we should rejoice. Even the mind needs time to play and to explore and this happens when we dream." Walking all about Chinatown, was like a surreal experience of sorts with so many fascinating things to draw your attention to. Yep, I eventually found the tofu maker in an alleyway with a host of tofu makers. It was a tough choice to pick from the many tofu makers, but I'm grateful I can read the prices in Chinese, because my Tagalog needs nurturing. I'll conclude with a short poem from Curthom.

"Life is an endless dream between waking and being awake. Love brings forth life and life extends to man and woman. Love is a journey that wears with time, but true love is a trip that never ends and the scenery along the way is nothing but the blessed ambiance, that sustains the reasons two people commit to one another. With this commitment to stay together, the night becomes the day and the day becomes the night and each eagerly anticipate its arrival with pleasure." Excerpt from The Book of Curthom.