Do you dream when you sleep? Dreams that you can remember? Whether it is a small dream or a long dream, dreams can really play a role in your life, or at least I think they do in my life. I know my dreams are just things my brain is playing out from what is going on in my life. I have had dreams as far back as I can remember and I know when I wake up that it is just my brain trying to make sense of things that are going on in my life. I have reoccurring dreams and those that I can not even remember.
Recently, since I have moved, I have been dreaming every night about people that have been in my life at some point. People that I have not seen in my life for more then 25 years or people that have been in my life throughout the years. I know these people played a role in my life then and I know they play a role in my life now. Now after 7 weeks of living here and having a different dream every night, it is just my brain trying to make sense of what I have just done. Moving and leaving people in my life that I have either saw everyday for years or even people that I used to see every once in awhile. All people that make up who I am along my life's journey.
One thing I wish I would have done is started to write down the people I have in my dreams. I thought about it last week that I would have quit a list of names if I had started to write them down. I knew at first that I was having these dreams to help me cope with not seeing the people I knew in my everyday life. After about week five I started to think, how long will I be dreaming like this? Today I know it might be awhile. Some dreams have multiple people so that helps. I realize that I have known a lot of people in my life. From jobs that I have had to school.
I have told people when I have had them visit me in my dreams, however there are quit a few that I have not. How weird is it if you tell someone, 'oh I had dream about you last night!' I know that these dreams are not harmful but there are many dreams where I wake myself up crying. I know it's my brains way of coping with a loss. Not that those people are dead but the loss of not having those in my life everyday, once a week or even once a month. Some people I have not seen in years and I don't even know how to tell them.
I wonder what to do with all these dreams.
Happy dreaming.
Monday, September 22, 2014
Smiling faces
I have not written in awhile because I really did not know what to write. After a couple of weeks with a topic in mind I have finally decided to write about smiling faces.
A little smile can make a big difference in someones life. As I took this journey to move across the country I have come across so many different people. All of which are smiling. Everywhere I go I look up and people give a simple smile. While at the grocery store I am walking through the isles and I look up to see someone smiling at me and even saying HI. It is almost like when I first lived in the rural area of Morgantown, Indiana while driving through the country side people would wave to the oncoming driver.
I find myself wondering if those random people I come across would be smiling at me if I were not smiling too or even looking up at them would I see them smiling? I have made this adventure a positive one. Don't get me wrong I feel sad on some days but I remain positive and try to smile as a walk along. Everyone from the people at the check out in the store to meeting people at the church that we have found. People are generally happy and full of smiles to give to a stranger.
I have come across people on this journey that I know were put in my life to get me through this journey. I meet a beautiful women on a flight back to Indiana from San Francisco when I came here for my birthday back in June. I did not even get her name, but she was so kind and we talked the whole way home on a flight from Las Vegas. She had been visiting her daughter here in California and was on her way home to sell her house and pack her life up to come back here to live with her daughter. She had lost her husband to cancer a few years earlier and really had nothing left back home in Indiana but she was reluctant to leaving her life that she knew behind to possibly finish her life here in California with her daughter. I felt so blessed then to have someone to talk to about a journey that I felt might be a possibility in my life and in hers. It was almost like we were meant to meet along our journey to get us through to the next step.
Another women I meet while sitting in a hotel bar waiting on a friend to meet me from Boston. I struck up a conversation with her because there were famous people there at this hotel and that is why she was there, to see these famous people. The famous people ended up being the Mexico soccer team. Being that I have some soccer experience I thought this was pretty cool however, I didn't know any of these famous people and really did not know much about team Mexico. As I sat there and had this conversation with this women she was so nice and shared so much about the surrounding area, the bay area. She helped me pass the time while I sat there waiting. In the end I offered my name and she offered hers. Her name was Cecilia, my mothers name. I gave her hug and told her that it was meant to be that our paths crossed. Just a little smile to get me through on my journey.
I am so thankful for smiling faces that I meet along the way. It definitely makes a difference to have smiling faces that are so welcoming and inviting to a new a different place. I came here to Cupertino not knowing anyone but having people not only here in Cupertino, but also in the San Jose and San Francisco area, a little smile does help me get through along the way.
SMILE! :)
A little smile can make a big difference in someones life. As I took this journey to move across the country I have come across so many different people. All of which are smiling. Everywhere I go I look up and people give a simple smile. While at the grocery store I am walking through the isles and I look up to see someone smiling at me and even saying HI. It is almost like when I first lived in the rural area of Morgantown, Indiana while driving through the country side people would wave to the oncoming driver.
I find myself wondering if those random people I come across would be smiling at me if I were not smiling too or even looking up at them would I see them smiling? I have made this adventure a positive one. Don't get me wrong I feel sad on some days but I remain positive and try to smile as a walk along. Everyone from the people at the check out in the store to meeting people at the church that we have found. People are generally happy and full of smiles to give to a stranger.
I have come across people on this journey that I know were put in my life to get me through this journey. I meet a beautiful women on a flight back to Indiana from San Francisco when I came here for my birthday back in June. I did not even get her name, but she was so kind and we talked the whole way home on a flight from Las Vegas. She had been visiting her daughter here in California and was on her way home to sell her house and pack her life up to come back here to live with her daughter. She had lost her husband to cancer a few years earlier and really had nothing left back home in Indiana but she was reluctant to leaving her life that she knew behind to possibly finish her life here in California with her daughter. I felt so blessed then to have someone to talk to about a journey that I felt might be a possibility in my life and in hers. It was almost like we were meant to meet along our journey to get us through to the next step.
Another women I meet while sitting in a hotel bar waiting on a friend to meet me from Boston. I struck up a conversation with her because there were famous people there at this hotel and that is why she was there, to see these famous people. The famous people ended up being the Mexico soccer team. Being that I have some soccer experience I thought this was pretty cool however, I didn't know any of these famous people and really did not know much about team Mexico. As I sat there and had this conversation with this women she was so nice and shared so much about the surrounding area, the bay area. She helped me pass the time while I sat there waiting. In the end I offered my name and she offered hers. Her name was Cecilia, my mothers name. I gave her hug and told her that it was meant to be that our paths crossed. Just a little smile to get me through on my journey.
I am so thankful for smiling faces that I meet along the way. It definitely makes a difference to have smiling faces that are so welcoming and inviting to a new a different place. I came here to Cupertino not knowing anyone but having people not only here in Cupertino, but also in the San Jose and San Francisco area, a little smile does help me get through along the way.
SMILE! :)
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