(a favorite preferred/projected (self-)image)
The possibilities we dream of come truest in our imaginations. Occasionally we are lucky and some of these dreams transition to physical reality. Then they assume an even greater transformative power. It is also in our dreams and imagination that we are, each of us, freest, too.
For anyone who is frustrated and profoundly unhappy in their lives, I would suggest the person enjoy and take pleasure within personal fantasy and imagination. There, there will be no or fewer disappointments. There, people will find the perfection and happiness they seek.
Always there are limits in physical reality. That and many different points of view, backgrounds, contexts, experiences, and agendas. One’s dreams are always up against that much potential conflict, naysaying, contrariness, and defeat.
In my own life, it has been my dreams and imagination that have long sustained me. I am like the speaker in Paul Simon’s “I Am a Rock” who has long lived mostly innerly and steadily built my own resources and integrity. An only child, I have long stood alone and actualized whatever (limited) possibilities I have had.
But some dreams have remained and survived the big bad world and I credit personal consciousness, imagination, and memory as being the main driving forces and foundations in my life. There have been myriad nice possibilities that haven’t been actualized, but the mere remembrance and contemplation of these have sufficed. In that, a being true to one self all over again and an appreciation of dream and imagination which have largely given me the lucky, contented life I’ve had so far.