Monday, December 5, 2011

How to Dream.

For my last quote I picked in my opinion the best thing I have ever read or heard. It is from an Irish play writer George Bernard Shaw. You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" (“Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act 1) This quote has always appealed to me ever since I was a kid. It always speaks to me. My mother was the one who showed me it she had a plaque that had this quote on it.

            I believe the reason it speaks to me is because no matter what you think of yourself or your thoughts they are yours and you should not be ashamed of them. I am a bit of a perfectionist. So whenever I building something it has to work just right or I will throw out the whole thing and start again. The quote showed me that no matter how crazy something look or how out of this world you believe your dream is it matters and should be acted on. You never know how your ideas or outlooks on different things will impact someone.

            I wonder sometimes perhaps great inventors had these ideas. I mean how many people would have told Thomas Edison that a flame lighting through a glass bulb was a crazy idea, but he went on and experimented on it thousands of times eventually creating the light bulb. Just imagine how the world would be without the ideas and dreams of other inventors, artist, and writers without their dreams.