The Lesson of Carpe Diem

There exist in this world, those who would conquer it by nothing other than lessons to be learned. There exist also, however, those who should in all rights never learn, lest their lessons lead them away from living. For by learning, their souls escape their body, a little more each time until when, at the height of their knowledge, their souls have all but left them; and with their souls, their dreams vanish into the oblivion of folly. With each turn of a page, the world we all knew as children slides slowly away, or rather, is pushed from their minds to make room for the thing that is more socially acceptable. For they realize that within the small area of a human mind, no two things so large as dreams and reality can ever coincide.

There is nothing obviously different from these few and the rest of humanity at large, nothing so unique as to cause them to be pointed out as a separate group. The minute irregularity is they have held onto their dreams rather than allow them to be hidden away from them in their youth. They held onto the things that society tells them they cannot have, and with each retelling, the things are torn from their hands as if to keep them from harming themselves with these ideas...these dreams.

Carpe Diem...seize the day...a source of hope for some, a curse for others. For some, it encourages them to live their "dreams"; to grasp at the things that are unobtainable to them, yet they wish were possible. For the true dreamer though, it encourages them to run from them. For they know that their dreams could be made reality with only a little child-like faith. For these, it is only in running away that their dreams remain a reality, and because of this it is only in their nightly peace, when the world is quiet in their minds, that they can draw close to their dreams.

They have not let reality set in, nor let their paths to be decided by fate, nor by any other person or thing on this earth, but by themselves, and yet, it is only they that hold themselves in check. For they have discovered that there are some dreams that are not to be realized. If they could, they would not hesitate to escape to another world where reality is suspended and all their dreams would come to fruition...but this is not that world.