Overthinking?

"woe is he who has fulfilled his dreams"

this statement speaks volumes does it not?

it could be saying:

1. he who has fulfilled his dreams has no more dreams to dream about, nothing to look forward to.

2. he has seen the harsh reality that dreams do not live up to our expectations.

3. the magic of imagination, dreaming, hope and anticipation has left his life.

4. maybe the maintaining of said achieved dreams is not worth it. (then again maybe the dream IS to maintain something.)

okay, i'm just rambling. but i feel this statement is a metaphor for dreams and reality, imagination and reality, expectations and reality... a metaphor for losing the finish line you have been running towards because you have now passed it, and realising that the running towards the goal was what made you feel alive, so much more so than being at the end.

do i overthink things too much? is that a bad thing? then again i always can't help wondering how people can NOT think about these things- how they can be so contented in their ignorance, what is bliss if you know not what is anguish? are they so weak, so afraid, so cowardly as to shun anything that could hurt them, avoid the unpleasant side of life, and pretend, seeing only what they choose to see? is that what is means to CHOOSE happiness? to CHOOSE not to be unhappy? whatever happened to being happy because you have experienced despair? emerging triumphant after a tribulation? are we now just going to be satisfied by taking the shortcut- just ignoring the pain that we could be exposed to, and CHOOSE to be happy? that is the way is see it.



what is reality?