Dreaming Away

I had a dream last night. Not a very remarkable event since science tells us that we dream very night.

What is remarkable is that I remembered my dream. This is remarkable. I only remember one or two a year. But now, it is 4:37am on this Monday morning following a week of very compelling events. Some of these events could drastically improve everything in my life and I am up dwelling on a dream rather than something more tangible.

This was not a good dream but it wasn't a nightmare. In it I had been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Lung Cancer! I have never smoked and I dreamed i had lung cancer. Oddly, no member of my family nor any friend was in the dream, but I never felt lonely. I had advanced, untreatable cancer yet I felt no pain. I had only weeks to live yet I felt no fear nor remorse. I was about to die yet i had not one iota of any life.

In the real world, now about 5:15, In feel very alive. I can feel the fullness of my life. One prominent thing is that this dream is true. NO, I don't have cancer. At least nothing that I know of and I went through intense health and physical test about 18 months ago. But I do have a short time left to live. So do you. Even if you have longevity in your genes, as i do, the time we have in a lifetime is short. But we do have the opportunity to make it eternal, on some level.

That level is Excellence. Our own and the Excellence of those we touch. This past week has been remarkable for the extra amount of opportunities had to contribute some of my strengths. Very little succumbing to my weaknesses occured. This week was good. Not totally bereft of frustrations and problems, it wasn't a dream, but i was able to focus on Excellence because of the communities within which I travelled.

My nephew used me as a writer to survey for a school project about books and publishing. I was very surprised with the content of my own answers. I had had a writer's club meeting this afternoonand our usual 6 person attendance blossomed to 18, with three just walking in on a whim. An extremely diverse cast of characters who helped each other find the voice of expression inside us all. My business partners and I text messaging strategies and proposals in an almost non-stop hour and a half saturday. A good week of business and personal occurences of talent interaction and exchange followed by inspired responses.

It was just a week in which I lived surrounded by depth of soul, heart, mind, and body. It was a good week. But I did have that bad dream. I don't have long to live. Neither do you. I can't afford to have any more weeks that are any less full and rewarding. Neither can you.