There was a child who loved to dream.
They dreamed of rivers that poured into the air and fell back to the land like rainbows in the sky so you could swim into the air.
They dreamed of old stars that could talk and whisper in your ear at night and tell you of the ancient pasts before time had even begun.
They dreamed of dark caves that when you entered them,
If you sat in them and waited with love in your heart,
You could open your eyes and find green,
Sunlit forests where all the animals and plants and fungi were your family and your best friends and you all laughed and played together and you were never hungry because the sun's light and the sky's water wanted to join your body and they gave you all your energy.
One day,
The child dreamed of a world that was all dream,
Where whatever your heart imagined came to be reality.
They dreamed of playing here,
Of creating other friends to play with,
And it was a beautiful dream.
They played in this dream with their friends and realized something was missing.
They couldn't connect deeply with their friends because they knew they were pretend.
So they dreamed a new element to this dream,
That you would forget that you had dreamed up your friends so that your friends could be as real as you.
And they loved this new way.
It was so amazing that they decided to forget that they had dreamed up any of the dream so they could play in the dream as if it were real.
And to them,
It was real,
As real as anything else.
So fully did they believe in their dream and they played in this real world.
And sometimes they suffered because they didn't know that the hard things were dreamed.
But also they had great joy because they didn't know that the nice things were dreamed too.
They didn't know it was a dream,
So they got to feel realness.
And it helped them feel real themselves too.
And they learned all sorts of things in that reality because it was real to them.
And the love for each friend was very real.
That was the best part.
And then the child realized something very interesting.
The real world,
The world they had been avoiding by dreaming dreams all the time,
Is also full of love and is full of lessons and is full of nice and hard things and everything in between.
And they realized that their best dream looked just like the world they had been born into,
Like the real world.
And so they decided to dream a little less and to play in the real world a little more and to learn and to love and to let their heart's dreams be their guide.
And they were just like you.
And you too are a magical dream.
You are so precious.
Please enjoy yourself.
And remember to love yourself as you are and as you were and as you will be.
All the changing makes the real world dreamy.
