The Naked Jumper – Pt. 3

“Dream Killers”

The Jumper Nightmare: Having cake and eating it

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When we’re children we allow ourselves to be anything we want; we cannot see any reason why we can’t be what we want. However, a bit later we find out we were just practising and what “we want to be” is supposed to happen when we grow-up. So, we all look forward to being grown-ups. However, along the way to being grown-up we learn that it’s acceptable to not be what we want, in fact, it’s often encouraged and we learn about all the impossibilities of our dreams and aspirations; making them all useless, purposeless and fanciful. Until finally we grow up and embarrassed by our “childish thoughts”, we throw away our dreams.

Instead, we have children, houses, jobs, money, holidays and cars to replace our dreams. Dreams and aspirations are considered a temporary disease of youth and set aside for the young and innocent. It’s taken for granted such “foolishness” and “naivety” will get sucked out of us by life’s little setbacks, disappointments and potholes in the road. The best that most adults can do is dream and aspire for “better” children, houses, jobs, money, holidays and cars and that’s all we can envisage for ourselves; that’s all we can “realistically” dream of.

It’s a sad state of affairs when the biggest obstacle to us having “anything in the world that we might want” are the thoughts in our heads; what is “realistic” limits our tomorrows and makes a dissatisfying bed to lie in today. However, there’s a tendency to think the reverse; if we have dreams it’ll only make us dissatisfied and disappointed with our lot. When we see others achieve spectacular things, things that we don’t even allow ourselves to dream of, we secretly despise them; deep down we mutter to ourselves that those people are no better than we are and they aren’t that special really. Actually, they are. However, it’s  only a simple thing that makes them different;