Dreams Expire Faster than They Used to

When I was a kid I dreamt that I would grow up to own a new car one day. Something that’s mine, straight from the showroom. Decades and many turns of circumstances later I am yet to achieve that goal, the closest that I ever got to was a second hand sedan sold to me by a friend who moved onto his own new dream car.

If I reflect on how I feel about the same topic now, I would have nothing much to say. Yeah, still not particularly against that idea, but no I wouldn’t call that a dream any more.

The unfortunate truth is that ‘the years’ did most of the time manage to grind their teeth into any seemingly unshakable ideals of a child and dreams do eventually expire.

Sounds like common sense.

But above was an emotional warm up. The real horror story today is the fact that not personal dreams, but dreams of a greater scale, fade into the dark right in front of our very eyes.

Sci-fi stories, post-apocalyptic novels and high fantasies alike, cold, calculated mathematical projections and hot headed predictions alike, are becoming trivialised as we speak and breathe: dreams expire at such a rate, at such a manner, that they are almost struggling to catch up with reality.

Some just get defeated by the others, and some by the sheer competition of industries.

Look no further than the software industry, whenever a solid narrative comes out, ten and twenty variations of the same thing will follow, exploiting and saturating every corner of possibility within days.

Long gone are the days that it took decades for a dream to expire.

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