It was an ordinary day. Sitting in my lounge chair, reading a story that was published in the morning paper and wondered who recorded the 45 record, Dreamin'...I'm always Dreaming'. Do you ever do the same thing? All of a sudden the song popped into my head. Song has to be close to 60 years old. Grabbed my laptop and before long the name Johnny Burnette was on my desktop. Began to sing the lyrics and before long I had sung the entire first verse of the song. Went like this....
Dreamin', I'm always dreamin'Dreamin', love will be mine
Searchin', I'm always searchin'
Hopin' someday I'll find
Someone, someone to love me
Someone to need me but until then...
Well, I'll keep on dreamin'
Keep right on dreamin'
Dreamin' till my dreamin' comes true.
The story that was published in the morning paper was written by Mr. Robert Olsen as part of his column that is titled "Senior Living." I'm almost positive that Mr. Olsen had heard Dreaming' before, but perhaps he might not have memorized the lyrics such as I did. The title of his column today was "What would life be like without dreams?" He began the column, "I stopped playing the banjo and guitar maybe 50 years ago. For a man who is almost 84, that seems like another lifetime ago." I must say...I agree with him. I too like to reminisce and after some time think about my life as being another lifetime ago. You know..."the good 'ole times!" And...I have many, many memories from the good 'ole times...especially when I begin "Dreamin' till my dreaming' comes true." Now, I must admit that to have my dreaming' come true, I must ask my wife to share with me the memories such as..."Dear, remember when we went on vacation with Jere and Sue and our tour guide needed help to change his flat tire and I had to climb under the van to get his spare tire?" Do you have moments, when you're not sure if you are dead or alive? After sitting for some time and realizing that your heart is really beating and that you are really breathing, you then realize that you were perhaps dreamin'. Mr. Olsen wrote that...sometimes I have wished that I could be like Rip van Winkle, sleeping for 20 years and then waking up and finding out while I was sleeping it was just a dream and we could go back to living the way things were when I was a child: when we didn't lock the doors at night, where we'd chase the lighting bugs around the yard and where we'd go out into the apple orchard in the fall and pick the apples while they were crisp and cold. I'm just like Mr. Olsen. There are times when I wish I was a teenager and playing little league baseball once again or maybe working on my '53 Henry J automobile or even working at the Acme Supermarket on a Friday evening, waiting for the clock to strike 10 PM and I could head to Rocky Springs Park to ride the roller coaster once again. But...I know those wishes will never come true...or maybe some day they might come true...but be part of one of my dreams! I really have had dreams such as the ones I just typed. And, my dreams have taught me some valuable lessons over the years. While in one of my dreams, I have the chance to change the ending which I never had when I lived the event for the first time. Dreams can teach you some valuable lessons. Perhaps you were dreaming and you happened to fall into a pool of water and couldn't swim. Will that dream be part of your memory so that you make an effort to learn how to swim the first chance you get? Maybe, as a teenager, you were dreaming that you were driving your car a bit too fast in the town in which you live and were stopped and you lost your license for a few months. Maybe the next time you are behind the wheel of your car, you may remember that and drive a bit slower. Mr. Olsen writes...How wonderful it would be, when we cannot realize our dreams, if only we could enjoy the fantasy, just for a moment, of actually realizing them. Whether it is the house with a picket fence, a shiny red car or truck in the driveway, a new baby on the way or a graduation from school, our dreams are the key things that often propel us forward in our lives. Life can be difficult, and it is wonderful to enjoy our fantasies, even though most of us know that we may never experience them. How true, Mr. Olson, but I also believe that the lyrics to the song Dreaming' are just as true and "well, I'll keep on dreaming'...keep right on dreaming'...Dreamin' till my dreaming' comes true! It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.
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