Awakening from a Dream
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Awakening from a Dream
| Mon, 03-07-2005 - 6:51pm |
I am not sure where I read this, but I know it was from an Irish fairie story. When a fairie enchanted a human, the human became more and more selfish and impatient. The human would not be interested in what went on around them, only in the time that could spend in the fairie world. It got so the human would give up everything to become one of the fairies. They would lose all of the joy and sorrow that is part of the human experience. They could not feel empathy towards others or delight in hard work. These reminders of the real world made them cross and impatient. They could only delight in the beauty and perfection of the fairie world, and in so doing became shallow and selfish, until they ceased to exist as themselves.
I know there were so many times when I wished I was with the xmm, or somewhere else and I missed the life I should have been living. I was not there for my family, or if I was there I was grouchy. I was so willing to pay any price to have this? The reality is there was nothing there. I would have given up everything I had for nothing. I feel like a person slowly awakening from a dream. It is taking me a long time, and if I am not careful, I slip back into that dreaming state. Only now I won't let myself be taken. I want the things that should be mine. No one can give them to me not H, not xmm. There is only one person who can rescue me. I chose my own destiny. I write my own story, and that is what life is all about, choice.
I know there were so many times when I wished I was with the xmm, or somewhere else and I missed the life I should have been living. I was not there for my family, or if I was there I was grouchy. I was so willing to pay any price to have this? The reality is there was nothing there. I would have given up everything I had for nothing. I feel like a person slowly awakening from a dream. It is taking me a long time, and if I am not careful, I slip back into that dreaming state. Only now I won't let myself be taken. I want the things that should be mine. No one can give them to me not H, not xmm. There is only one person who can rescue me. I chose my own destiny. I write my own story, and that is what life is all about, choice.

KC
TRUE WISDOM IN YOUR WORDS, hopefully others will have this awakening.
Free
thanks for sharing
we are all struggling with this choice we made, but it our choice, God gave us free will to make our own choices and its up to us to make another choice to get out of this mess
some of us will take time to make that choice and that is why i am here and we are all here in this board
thanks,
max
I find that 'fairy land' every bit as real as real life, but more destructive.
Just a taste...that is all it took me. I never did drugs. Good thing, I seem to have an addictive personality. Just a taste...it is like a drug.
One starts to think of leaving the family that loves them, giving up the home they helped build, getting rid of all that they worked so hard to build, friends and family be damned.
For what...just another minute. One more call, one more letter...
Your words are wise...my logical side reads the words, my emotional side longs for...
Just one more taste of that other life...
Thank you for sharing your thoughts...CD
CD,
my words might be wise but my actions are still not, but im getting there, slowly we will all get there, away from this nitghtmare
u take care,
max