Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Some Decisions are More Difficult than Others

I had a very vivid dream the other night - so vivid that I remember it, and how it made me feel, even now. I'm at an event with my family, that I'm not really comfortable with being at. Now, that's not unusual - I'm not usually comfortable at any event...but as I walk outside of the party, down a long, green lawn, towards a large body of water, I feel the absurd need to get across that water to some unknown destination on the other side of the bay. It's evening and the wind is picking up. I walk over to a small dock as the wind starts to make the lake dark and choppy. Now it is not a resort type of lake, but has become an industrial  shipping lane - wide, deep and cold. There is a type of water conveyor belt which is taking long flat portable folding tables from the dock, and shooting them across the bay to the other side, which I can not see.  Without giving it a thought, I step on the next table to go by. Suddenly I'm on a "raft" with nothing to hold on to in the middle of a cold, violent body of water.  For some reason there is a railing sticking up about one third of the distance of the lake. I grab it and stop myself from going further.  Ahead was almost certain death from being sucked into whatever void the tables are being sent to, and behind me is a vicious current of icy dark water - I could never swim back - another certain death.  What the heck am I doing here??? I most certainly can't stay on this little table raft, clinging to a post. I have to make a decision because the next table will soon come and knock me out of the way.  I'm alone in the busy shipping lanes with no way to go back, and an absolutely crazy journey ahead. I don't know what happens next because it is 6am and the alarm clock is going off.  Now what?  The nature of this dream leads me to believe that it is trying to tell me something.  I have had incredibly vivid dreams in the past, which have all turned out to be prophetic - I don't want this dream to come true!!!  As it stands, my life is pretty static.  If you are thinking that I have some profound corners in my life which I need to turn, or some life changing decisions to be made, you are wrong.  My biggest decisions lately have been between different flavours of yogurt to start my morning with.  So I guess I am left to wonder when the solid ground is going to be pulled out from under me, and when I will be set adrift. I can only hope that my table will be solid and that I will have the confidence to finally make a decision.

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