“…So you admit that you are a dreamer?”

On reflection perhaps this may be a typical reason why some prospective employers simply do not get back to me regarding positions that I feel that I am more than capable of fulfilling.

Yes I am an individual who thinks far beyond what most individuals normally would. A regular individual concerns him or herself with how to be a success in life. By success one would normally refer to getting a 40-hour job, a cool car, a wife (or husband), have kids, make lots of money, etc.

“I suppose its just the way you are…”

Hmm. I appreciate that some people might want to make excuses for what they may perceive as a flaw within myself, but unless I am hopping to and from hospital for tests or surgery, or otherwise severely hampered by circumstances beyond my control then I am not inclined to make excuses for myself.

This is particularly true if I believe that the conceptions upon which they are based are false. I am firmly of the belief that dreamers are not born so but develop to be such. I believe that the dreamer is close of kin to the creator – the person who manifests through art and music and craft and science.

Anybody can be a dreamer.

Dreamers are those who do not necessarily extrapolate from the real to discover that that which is presumed fictional can be achieved, but rather they can begin from the fictional and work with and beyond the accepted knowns to add the non to fiction.

Dreamers are far from useless and it is a commonly-held misconception that we are. It is why it is suggested that we call ourselves ‘visionaries’. A visionary is a person who is close of kin to a dreamer but has a deeper and narrower field of view, focusing upon a single ambition to the exclusion of trivialities that fall by the side. Many self-proclaimed visionaries are in fact closer related to dreamers as they lack the single-mindedness required.

We dreamers can be found in many fields of employment and, sometimes, we leave our imprint. We question the boundaries of the possible, we innovate and have made possible some of the most important as well as the most whimsical contributions that developed societies have enjoyed.

Yes I am a dreamer. Would you like to soar?

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