Our Collective Dreams

Sleeping is one hobby we all share. The next day is usually a better one than the day before. We cannot get to the next day until we sleep first. Our dreams are filled with various scenes. There are books that help to interpret our nighttime fantasies. The dreams we have during our waking hours though are common to many. People always want what they probably cannot have. For most of us our wants are the same.

Oh, to be wealthy! Dreams of avarice fill the heads of those not satisfied with their particular level of income. Who amongst us is truly happy with how much money comes in? Being rich would solve many of my own problems to be sure. Just look at all the people waiting to teach us how! They are flush with cash so they must be the ones who know the secrets! The problem is that they got that way off the backs of fools looking to get rich in the first place.

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder but it is sold in jars, tubes and within doctor's syringes. You have not heard? For the right price you can buy a cream to remove wrinkles. Your skin will look years younger with this miracle salve. Botox and plastic surgery will make you into a new person! Let us not forget liposuction to remove all that unsightly fat. All of these purveyors of the impossible never tell you one thing. Beauty comes from within you and nowhere else.

Andy Warhol never knew what he was talking about. Fifteen minutes of infamy is not enough for anyone. We do not care if we make utter fools of ourselves in the pursuit of fame. There are plenty of reality shows more than willing to provide a forum to display our ego, vanity or complete stupidity. Make sure when in public, and you see a television news camera, you jump up and down like an idiot. Never mind that most truly famous people have no privacy and no real sense of self.

Who has time for exercise? There are a million diets that one may choose from. No time even for dieting? Well there are hundreds of pills that will do the same thing. Just lift your hand to your mouth! Let us eat whatever we like. Our bodies will work just fine. Those pills could not possibly hurt our organs or cause worse problems than we started with. I am so glad that our own nightly news brings us the details of each new health trend or fad as they come out. See those trim healthy people? Do not tell anyone but they got that way through exercise and healthy eating.

Let us all go to sleep tonight knowing that the answers to our dreams are so close! A book, a cream, a television camera and a pill will provide us with all that we desire. No longer will we have to be patient. No more will we have to concern ourselves with the truth. For enough money many are available to sell us the lie that what we want takes no work whatsoever. Keep shelling out your hard-earned money. Forget reason and logic and that good things take time. Give in to your basest desires and mindlessly travel the road of life.

You should all know better. After reading many of my posts it is obvious I am being facetious. There are no quick and simple answers. Solutions to our problems are hard-won. Our desires are not always healthy. What we want is not the same as what we need half the time. When you think about what is most important to you do not concentrate on what is fleeting. Wealth, beauty, fame and health dwindle as time goes on. These are not the things that make a life worth living. Look towards what truly adds value to existence and never mind the low hanging fruit.