Last Night I Had the Most Wonderful Dream

Most of the details were a bit fuzzy, but last night I had a wonderfully happy dream.

First let me give you a little background information to put the dream into context (and no, I didn't dream about winning the Willy Award to all my S.C.T. friends).

After my last cruise, I decided to forgo all future cruises until I had paid off both my car and student loan. At the time I made that decision, as a state employee, I was facing what I thought of as an endless future of "Furlough Fridays" and the attendant 15% cut in pay (a governator on the defensive will tell you it was only 14.86%), I felt it was something I just couldn't afford anymore till I had taken care of those previously mentioned obligations.

Anyway, in the dream, my situation drastically changed to not only being able to afford the Mexican Riviera cruise again next year and every following year, but every cruise that Atlantis Events organizes every year for the rest of my life.

Like I said, some of the details were fuzzy, but during the dream, I kept seeing and hearing a string of seemingly random numbers that I wrote down on a little notepad I had near my bed, and as soon as I'm able, I'm going to the place I normally buy my lotto tickets and buy those numbers.

Some people may think it's stupid to believe in dreams, but I don't. Everything I dream, one way or another and sooner or later, always come true.

Yet Again

I yearn for recognition yet am I forever ignored.

I yearn for freedom yet am I forever held in bondage.

I am fed a meal of crumbs,

a meal of scraps and leavings,

yet I must give thanks as though for a full course meal.

I must swallow back my bile and speak sweetly to those who oppress me.

I must smile at my tormentor even while the whip tears into my flesh.

I am told that I am too old,

or too young,

or too fat,

or too thin,

or too tall,

or too short.

I am never told I am just right.

I am told I try to hard.

I am told I do not try hard enough.

I am denied my heart's desire yet again.