pipe dreams

3/3/16 pre-P&J pipe smoke

Yesterday I was contemplating the idea of pipe dreams... after a nice pipe smoke.
I began to wonder what makes us desire to learn about places we will never walk

and people we will never meet?

What drives us to Pinterest pictures of crafts and DIY's that we will never do... or 

talk about things we actually don't know anything about?

Before I get ahead of myself and keep coming up with more and more questions...

I'm going to throw out a few potential answers...

We are attracted and fascinated with newness and difference.

ever have a rush when standing in a new place, listening to someone else's "crazy"

life stories, making your own stories, or listening to music SO loud it almost rushes 

through you. 

But we aren't just attracted to these things for the instant gratfication...

No, I think we desire something within us to MOVE.

Perhaps we desire to find a new little nugget within ourselves,

or maybe we just want to FEEL something? Could we crave unity to something

or someone? Something to hold onto?

hmm... 

maybe it all comes down to one thing..

Hope.

- for something deeper to satisfy that insecurity that we so severely seek to mask

- for happiness... I mean who doesn't want to be happy.

- for relief: from the daily stresses, from homework, from the internal junk, from 

injustice in the world, from (insert whatever you want).

Ahhh hope....

A hope that brings us right back to those pipe dreams.

Maybe pipe dreams are unrealistic. Yeah I'll probably never meet the refugee 

families in Algreia, Africa that I learned about last night... but I bet they never 

thought they would be mentioned... and would have motivated thought... in this 

American college kid's blog.

I'll probably never sit on a stage in front of thousands of people, play my 

guitar, and sing the thoughts of my heart.... but I could do that for a small 

group of freshman girls last Sunday.

Pipe dreams may be absurd.

But so are most things in life...

just think about it for a second.

I mean really.

Hope is absurd.

But life's better lived in the absurdity.

Yep. 

Questions? Comments? Concerns?

-M Kavy