The first reason is I strongly believe that everyone should know what they want out of life. How can anyone be happy if they don't even know what they want? Without some type of rubric to measure your happiness, you'll just live life running in circles, never achieving anything that makes you satisfied.
The second is I am what they call a lucid dreamer. I have the ability to recognize that I am dreaming and consciously make decisions that influence the dream. Unlike some people, I am unable to manipulate the environment in which the dream takes place. It may seem odd, but I prefer not being in control of everything in my dream. When I'm only able to make my own decisions, it gives the dream a very profound effect. It makes the dream real to me. Without getting too in depth, here is why I prefer to do my soul searching in my dreams. I can experience things in my dreams that would otherwise be impossible to experience and carry on with my normal life. I can do things I'm normally scared to do. I can risk my life. I can die in a dream and wake up filled with the overwhelming emotions provoked by what didn't just happen.
Using lucid dreaming, I am able to find out what truly matters to me in life. I know how much material possessions do and don't mean to me. I know how I want my home to feel in 20 years. I know who I'm scared of losing. I've gained a deeper understand of my conscious and subconscious thoughts and desires.
Too many people are wandering aimlessly through life. My generation is lost. We're stuck between instant everything and endless nothing. I know hundreds of people who would have a much better life if they only had a purpose. And those are only the ones I've personally met. How many people do you know that have no idea what they want from life? How many people do you know that drink to forget their problems? How many people do you know that smoke to escape their life? How many people do you know that eat away their emotions? How many people do you know that are prescribed a pill to fix what's wrong? I'm surround by everything going wrong. No one seems to know what to do with their life. No one is satisfied. Everyone is scrambling to get a little bit of peace in their life. Forget living pay check to pay check. That means nothing compared to what this generation is going through. We are living brief moment of happiness to brief moment of happiness. People will do anything that gives them a tiny glimmer of hope to hold them down until they can find the next speck of satisfaction that comes along.
Let's move on with our lives. Let's start loving more and stop hating for reasons we made up. Let's start building each other up instead of tearing each other down for a little cheap entertainment. Let's start helping each other find the way instead of judging strangers for being lost and having issues that we refuse to believe resemble our own.
This planet has seen over 100 billion humans, 7 billion of which are still living. I am far from even the same class of intelligence of the smartest who have ever lived. Who am I to say what is or isn't important in the world? I could be halfway through my life right now, and I'm only just beginning to understand what it truly means to live.
I'd love to hear from anyone who read this far. Feel free to contact me with any questions and/or feedback of any kind. I'm easy to reach.
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