What is the focus of your project?

Once upon a time, when we were young, we could've been nearly anything. Life was uncharted territory and, if we did not bleed light, as Billy Collin suggested, at least we bled potential.

Then we grew up. I can appreciate the need for focus, the need to specialize. I can appreciate the driving need to find a decent job and hopefully financial stability in  a bid for happiness. I can understand how society functions better if we each find our own little niche, how it is in fact more practical if we can describe ourselves with one event that had shaped us into who we are and how everything is neater if everyone fits into their own little neat little box. Gift-wrap. Bow. Label.

It's practical. I like practical.

But

People are complicated by nature and sometimes I forget-- that the trade-off for boxes is that people are boxed in. People become limited. In search of efficiency and neatness we would have to pay the necessary price in details, personality, and dreams.

When is the last time you dreamed of all the things that you could be?

It is all to easy to forget, when you have worn a groove in your life with your focus, that there's so much more besides. Indeed, how can anyone find it in themselves to think of what more there is to themselves, to life, if everything and everyone are telling them to narrow their vision, to focus? If you remember what it is like to dream -- that is good --that means you still have that something that, once upon a time, meant that you could've been anything. Life is no longer uncharted and people bleed red, not light, and yet

Has all the doors of possibilities been closed off?

I think not.

So I challenge you -- you who are still reading this, you who can read this and feel that vague indefinable ache -- take one hour -- no, even half an hour would do, to start with--and forget. Forget all the labels you put on yourself, that the others put on you. Forget the responsibilities and plans you carry for yourself and others. Forget that life has happened and left rules gridded out for your future. Forget the promises and regrets and then see where you are.

And then, if you still have half an hour left

dream.