Dreaming the Person You Want to Be
Dreaming the Person You Want to Be
MakeBeliefs 2 Help U Smile & Lift Your Spirits
Here’s the latest installment in our special ‘’ Make Beliefs 2 Help U Smile & Feel J_Y’’ series; it is created to provide comfort and hope to young and old who are feeling distressed and anxious in our too fast-changing and sometimes unforgiving world. It’s our way of making things better by helping you imagine! I created these MakeBeliefs to find hope. If you find value in the MakeBeliefs project, please share this newsletter with someone you care about.
Your dream was one of the best ones you ever had in that it really seemed to come true (at least in your dream). You became the person you always wanted to be. Now, if that were to happen, how would you really be? Strong when you feel weak? Celebrated when you feel unrecognized? Happy when you feel sad? Who is this special being you quest for?
And, think about the person you would be leaving behind – the old you? Maybe they’re not so bad! Would you miss them or miss certain things about them? Sometimes it can be challenging to get what you wish for. What if it doesn’t work out? What then? (The answer: sleep well and dream again!) We are always changing ourselves.
Let Us Honor the Ukrainian Soldiers Who Died This Past Year. Draw or Paint a Thousand, Thousand Flowers on the Battle Fields Where So Many Fell (don’t forget to place a sunflower or two)
Or, perhaps better yet, this Spring plant some flower seeds or a tree in memory of the lost brave soldiers and people of Ukraine. May what you plant or draw bloom forever!
And While You’re at It, Why Not Plant a Seed for Peace, Too (there can never be enough seeds for the world)?
This illustration is from our free e-book: Dream Seeds: Writing to Grow Hope in Your Life, which you can download easily at: , https://makebeliefscomix.com/journaling-e-books/ It’s the perfect book for this time when we are nearing the end of winter and hoping fervently that somehow, through some miracle, the war will finally end in Ukraine.
Worth Your Attention and Opening Your Heart
In a new anthology of poems from Ukraine, In the Hour of War, Kateryna Kalytko, writing in the voice of a soldier on the frontlines,tells us about the closeness of death and life:
Life is a house on the side of the road,
old-world style, like our peasant house, divided into two parts
In one, they wash the dead man’s body and weep.
In the other, they dress the bride.
Now, back to You: Would you like to add some lines or a stanza to this poem? Tell the truth that you know. Try.
For more poems on hope and resilience in times of crisis and stress check out: