"Soñamos en nuestros momentos de vigilia y caminamos en nuestro sueño."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Simplified Meaning:
Sometimes, while we are awake, we have dreams and hopes about the future, imagining all the things we want to achieve. This is like daydreaming - creating pictures in our minds about our goals and desires. But often, when we go through our daily routines, we do them without really thinking, almost like sleepwalking through life. For example, imagine someone who wants to be a painter. They spend a lot of time thinking about becoming an artist, planning what they will paint and how famous they could become. However, every day they just go to their regular job, come home, watch TV, and never actually start painting. They are letting their dreams stay as dreams because their daily actions don’t change. To really live, it's important to make sure our daily actions help us reach our dreams. Instead of just imagining and floating through life, we should take active steps to make our dreams come true. This means being conscious and present in doing things that bring us closer to what we wish for. By doing this, we break the cycle of sleepwalking through our routines and start living our dreams with intention and purpose.