dreamers of the day.

I fulfilled a childhood dream today: I got to drive a Porsche 911 for the first time. The car I had posters of as a kid. The car I still continue to dream of every single day.

T.E. Lawrence wrote about two types of dreamers. First are the ones who dream at night, where the dreams vanish with the morning. Second, there are the dreamers of the day, the ones who act on their dreams with open eyes to make them possible.

As I venture further into adulthood, I’ve realised how easy it is to stop dreaming and to just start waiting. Waiting for life to change. Waiting for the circumstances to be right. Waiting for the doubt and worry to go away.

But talking to the owner of that 911 today, I realised that dreamers of the day don't wait for the doubt and the worry to disappear. They know that those things will still be there, but they dream big despite of it. They let themselves want the thing, even when it feels impossible. Even when the voice in their head says "who are you to want this?"

Your big dream might feel too far away right now. But there's always a milestone closer than you think. A smaller version. A test run. A first step that proves the dream isn't as impossible as it feels.

I am still quite a long way away from owning a Porsche 911 of my own. But that doesn’t mean I can’t experience one. It doesn’t mean I can’t still want one, dream of one. Daydreams are important.

So what's the dream you've been too afraid to admit you still want? And what's one milestone that would bring you closer to it?

Don't wait for life to change. Dream it first. Then find the next step.

See you next Sunday,

Arteri