Dreamers have the advantage in being big thinkers. Sadly though, they're also the ones to be at a disadvantage at facing reality. 

If we're choosing to live in dreams, we're choosing ignorance of reality, choosing to ignore the real for pursuing what's out of reach. 

Now, let me clarify something. Living the dream is not living in dreams. If you've got a dream that you know you can reach, well, more power to you in getting there and living it, but, if you're continuously pursuing a dream that you have no hopes in accomplishing, because of limitations, doubt, obstacles, or it's too grand, then realize reality and try for a different dream, one within your reach!

I'm not saying to give up on going for the metaphorical gold, but, in life you have to realize that there's no such thing as a happily ever after - those exist only in fairy tales, not even then in some of them! 

Reality is cold, cruel, and while it is, it's better than the alternative of living ignorantly in dreams. 

Bertrand Russell, British author, mathematician, and philosopher (1872 - 1970) had once said “I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.” To be certain is to know completely, and that, in my opinion, is an impossible thing. We’re creatures of skepticism by nature, always questioning, being sure about something more than we’re certain about that something.

This doesn’t mean I necessarily disagree with William Lyon Phelps, American educator, journalist, and professor (1865 - 1943) in his belief that “If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.” We’re humans, impossible creatures that can break expectations and limitations if we so choose to, and so it’s not too unthinkable to believe if we have certainty in ourselves we’d be able to “accomplish virtually anything.” Sadly, as I said before, we’re humans, and we have no self-certainty. We’re sure of ourselves, but not certain of ourselves.

Doubt tempers us, and though we so hate having to doubt (doubt people, ourselves, etc.), doubt keep us safe. As we are impossible creatures, we’re also logical creatures. If we plan on jumping figurative hurdles to accomplish spectacular feats, doubt makes us rethink what might be poor reckless planning on our parts.

Call me pessimistic or whatever it is you want to call me, but Bertrand Russell is right, in my opinion, in that “we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt.” Doubt is much more certain than certainty itself is, that’s what I think. 

Life and Death 

Life takes effort, as wherein death seemingly takes no effort 

It's an odd truth 

It takes time for a seed to sprout into a sapling, as well as a lot of tlc (tender love and care) to flourish

It takes a gentle hand, a precise amount sunlight and water, for a piece of flora to flourish, and the same can be said about an infant growing into a person capable 

An effort must be made for there to be life 

Whereas when it comes to death, it is an entirely different matter 

Death can come stake a claim on our souls on any given time 

Hit by an incoming vehicle ...

Being at the wrong place during the wrong time ... 

Caught in the middle ... 

Drowning both in the literal and metaphorical sense ... 

Death can come claim 

Not even an infant is safe from the ending of creation (with stillborn syndrome and even before, with miscarriages happening at inoppurtune times) 

It's sad a truth, but I believe it one people acknowledge a lot of the time 

Why else do people say "Cherish the time you have in this life"? 

Life takes effort p, as wherein death seemingly takes no effort 

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He whistled; "There goes the bride," as blood and tears streamed down his face 

We're a nation doomed to damnation, thanks to expectations

Preconceived notions of what we should be, we can not live up to

For we're a people of individuality, and like that of a snowflake we will forever be different from one another, no matter the similarities we may share 

People expect, and expect, and expect, and expect 

People expect a little too much, if someone asked me

But they didn't, and they didn't expect me to say this, either

Expectations are horrendous things

People have unwanted pressure put onto their shoulders, trying to meet what's expected of them and rise above the preconceived ideals set out for them 

It can make a person want to scream and cry and hurt until they can't scream and cry and hurt no longer 

Like that the bride who ran from her wedding, a wedding where if she stayed she'd have had to have married a man she felt no love for, are we a people similar

In the moment of it all, when we've all eyes on us, do we snap and say "No longer!" 

We're crazed when we do

With insanity in our eyes, an insanity of blazing wrath or drowning sorrow, do we show those expecting what we think of their preconceived notions and pre-planned ideals 

So much unwanted pressure, so much trying, and faking, and failing, it's a wonder why some haven't snapped earlier on in their lifetimes 

I'm surprised people haven't figured it out by now

You make plans, God laughs in your face