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Dancing your Dreams Away
The Ultimate Dance Awoken by the radiant beams of light flowing through my east room window, I rise to a new day.
In the kitchen, like paint on a glass floor, shines a rainbow of light cast by a crystal prism that hangs delicately in the window. As the breeze tickles the prism's string, the rainbow dances upon the floor, shining upon anything that enters its path. Only if life could dance so freely in each individual's life, but instead, society makes all dances comply with unsaid rules, so all dances are the same.
With the sun as the disc jockey that plays the music for the crystal's rainbow to dance, so society is the disc jockey that plays the tunes all humans must conform their dance to.
The music that is playing may not be what is desired, but each individual must customize the "norm" until the optimum dance is achieved. In our minds, our dreams are our ultimate dance that we believe we will one day reach.
We travel through life alongside the rest of society, never taking the time to really think about the dance we are waiting for and how to reach it. Instead, it is placed aside and becomes a memory as fast an apple drops from a tree. Example being, when I was younger, I wanted to be a pop singer, but I slowly outgrew that dream because of society restraints upon me.
Coming from a middle-class background, roots firmly planted in country lifestyle, and a tiny city, there was no way for me to become a singer. Cue reality. My dream dance faded like colored paper in the sun just because of my personal situation.
According to the basic rules of society I have seen from my few years on earth, for anyone to become famous they must follow four simple rules. Rule One: Come from a big city. Rule Two: Have a rich family that could support the psudo-star until fame strikes. Rule Three: Be involved in a television show or cinema event. Rule Four: If the last three are void, the pseudo-star must experience extreme luck at winning contests. Well, if left to the decision of society and all of these rules are void, tough luck! I have no chance of becoming a singer in my life time and in return, I let that dream disappear.
This is common for most dreams and desires that children imagine. As years pass by, childhood dreams fade and the real world replaces those aspirations. The disc jockey changes the music and so individual dances change too. People become more concerned with money and material possessions rather than with the dance that truly makes them happy. Conclusion: Dead dream. However, this is not true for everyone.
Lucky individuals do grow up to dance the dance they had long been awaiting. For the other 99.8 percent of people this isn't true. As a population, we gradually become happy with the life we chose, adding new steps to the present dance to make it our own just as the prism reflects the rainbow differently depending on the way the sun is shining.
The new steps may bring happiness, but there is always a lingering thought of what might have been if our dreams would have been reached--if the disc jockey would have played the right music to suit our individual dances. A reaction to such failure of not achieving a dream, might trigger regret of the past, but that would an immature reaction.
This is because in our lives there are years, months, days, and moments we do not regret, which means our path was not a total waste. The present lives we live are just a different type of dancing than what we may have once dreamed.
Dreams can be reborn and fulfilled through time, but falling just once or twice before mastering that new dance step may be needed. So, whatever happened to me since I was tangled in society's restraints and did not reach my dream? Well, I'm an eighteen year old female who will begin college in only a few short weeks. Although I did not ever become a pop star or achieve my ultimate dance, I am happy for where I am.
I do not regret a moment of my life, nor will I. I have had many great times and have learned how to change my footing to the different music that society throws at me. As I search for my direction in life, hopefully in becoming a child psychologist, I still remember that dream.
Sometimes I ponder how life would have been different, but then realize that for anyone to survive, they must adapt. With this being so, I strive to make my own dance within society's constraints, different from all others, allowing me to reach happiness with whatever music the disc jockey plays. For this is what I believe dreams truly are.
They are a place for an individual to be free of rules, society, stress, and other factors that intrude on personal happiness. It is a place where the prism can dance freely over the floor without ever stopping and with continual sunlight. Overall, it is just important that we remember to dream so we are able to dance with our whole hearts with whatever music society plays. Article provided by 
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