Loony tunes - a pleasant diversion

I was enjoying some late night reading when about 1:30 in the morning, I was interrupted by a loon singing out on the lake.  Soon another one joined in, then pretty soon, sound filled the air as several loons 'bantered' back and forth.  Now if you've never heard a loon sing, you're missing something special.  I have no idea what they're saying to each other, but it sure is a beautiful sound to me. I bet they have no idea how pretty their song is either, they just sing the songs they were meant to sing.  Then I got to thinking about some parallels with what Henry David Thoreau meant when he wrote, "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."  Here's what I think he meant - - -

Nurturing your dream and living the life you deserve.

Most youngsters and I would argue all of us at one time or another had dreams of things we'd like to do in our life.  Unfortunately these dreams often get pushed so far back in our minds we forget about them. Worse yet, some people forget they ever had dreams at all.  Dreams give us direction, hope and a vision for our future.  A great movie was made several years ago titled, "The Bucket List".  If you haven't seen it, you owe it to yourself to watch it.  I also want to mention a young lady I met this past year who told me that she only had one thing left do on her bucket list.  My response was to tell her she's pretty young to run out of things to strive for, and suggested that she start looking for more things that stir her soul, and dream bigger dreams.  At least at the age of 18, she was working toward achieving things she identified as being important to her.  Most people her age have all but given up on their dreams and convinced themselves that they were unrealistic in the first place.  It's important to realize that no matter what our age, we don't have to give up on the dreams that stir our soul. 

The question that begs to be asked is how do we rekindle or continue to nurture our dreams and start living the life we at one time dreamed about?