Daydreams

I'd like to start this post off with a question to the reader.
Do you daydream?
The reason I ask is because I've been doing this more and more lately. I did this often as a child, but I can't remember last time I did it as an adult. It's so nostalgic to think back to those youthful days when the whole world was ahead of you and the only thing you cared about was summer vacation, building forts, looking for fossils, and playing hide and seek!

It always seemed to me that when I wasn't drawing on my notebook in class I was dreaming of finding an undiscovered Egyptian tomb, or new dinosaur or even living on some strange new planet. My imagination ran wild, happy, and free. These same feelings have been flooding back to me lately. I'm really not sure why. It's the craziest thing too, I will be watching tv or listen to music when I get these images and thoughts about things really important to my heart. You know the things I speak of, the ones that maybe your closest friend know or your secret desires. Yeah, those kind of things. I call it random thought generation with meaning! I suppose it's not completely random as these things are always somewhere, hiding in the brain. I don't see them as fanciful thinking or even unrealistic as any one thought could become a reality. A friend said it was positive mental reinforcement of goals and ideas...like self programing. That's good, right?
I think a lot of this has to do with my current direction. It's like heading down the highway and seeing a sign for the town you are driving too, saying 5 miles. It's one of those markers letting you know you're going the right direction. You know, I do feel that way. I'm excited for life...and that my friends, is a completely new experience.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow