Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. – Theodore Roosevelt

I am a dreamer.  I spend so much time in my head that I often forget to live in the real world.  Given the state of the world, that doesn’t always seem like a bad thing, but realistically, it’s not a practical thing either.  At the opposite end of the spectrum I have friends and acquaintances who are so practical and pragmatic, I don’t think a daydream has ever flitted through their head.  That isn’t a criticism of them.  We need dreamers, and we need the pragmatists in equal measure.  According to good old Teddy, the best thing would be someone who can do both.  I’m certainly not going to argue with our late great president lol.  What I’m starting to see, is that kids aren’t encouraged to dream as much.  Kids play with video games, and computers and ipads, and their lego sets have plans to follow.  I don’t understand this trend. When my kids were little, they built amazing creations with their blocks and legos.  They didn’t do anything in reality, but in their imagination, they were planes and rocket ships and submarines.  I think we’d want to encourage our kids to dream big dreams.  They didn’t have coloring books, I bought them reams of paper, a trash can, and all the crayons and markers they could ever want.  Are either of them artists?  No, but they were not afraid to draw, and they created wonderful illustrations. It’s all about balance, I think.  We need to encourage people to dream and find the whimsy, while at the same time teaching them to get things done.