I Made a Dream Awake!

Catching up with an old friend has an inherent feel good factor associated, for more reasons than one. Not only is familiarity the reason for the happiness, more often than not you end up learning something new about yourself. So here I was meeting this friend after almost 2 years, and so much to catch up on trivia, facts and fiction. All the necessary small talk out of the way, my friend ( I choose to not get personal) started me on a rather fictitious trip down my own thoughts. Yeah! worry not we were not in the process of creating an inception of our own here, but mere probing and digging deeper in to the deepest recesses of the mind and the hidden desires thereof.

This is where I did make a dream awake. For the longest time without realizing that it was indeed one of my many deepest desires, when out it poured itself, it was a realization of sorts at several levels. I was asked, if I was given infinite amount of money, with all the time in the world, no one looking at me, what would i possibly do or indulge myself in. The fear of alienation gone, my most spontaneous reply was that i'd go to Vegas, indulge my mind, body and soul ( and I would come to exactly how, shortly) and hog for there was no fear of anything whatsoever. In the hindsight I am not that sure if it was indeed one of my deepest desires, or something fed to me by Travel & Living now TLC?

Forever grounded, its hard to imagine that my deepest desire would be to go a place like Vegas, completely the opposite of the kind of person I would like to call myself, and no I am not being judgmental here. Just saying... that this was surely not me, or was it?

Now back to the dream, or at least at that moment it felt like one i might have..

Indulging the mind, well I would love to learn Black Jack and be able to play as deftly as any fictitious character from any movie Hollywood ever churned out. My soul, Vegas is surely NOT the place for soul searching so yea I must be exaggerating about that one. Body, oh yea, the temple of all pleasures, the epitome of wastefulness. I would shop like there is no tomorrow, and yes in real life I am not a big shopper, so this too was a surprise for me. I would shop like a diva (there I am exaggerating again for want of a better word). If this was not enough, I would pamper 'the body' with liberal helpings of colorful, aromatic, flavorsome and somewhat rich (think Feasts with Nigella - TLC again) food. Again disclaimer, in real life I try and stick to strictly healthy food. This done, time for soaking oils, and sun and nothingness . I am not sure how much of a massage person I really am, but blame it on the idiot box again, all those shows selling us the 20 greatest massages of the world and best Spas you cannot miss....

Banalities, out of the way, I said I'd love to catch a glimpse of Cirque du Soliel and look around the city, that comes alive when the sun goes down. These I would admit were original dreams or desires. Somewhere in between all these not so crazy things I would have let my hair down and danced, on the street (remember no body was watching me), and won several rounds at several tables in different casinos, coz I was damn good at Black Jack (again lets not forget its my dream and the virtual self, very distant from the real one).

Now that I have pretty much laid bare, the details of the dream, I will come back to where I started. A lot of this was actually thanks to long hours of watching TLC. That does not take away the fact that I would still want to go to Vegas, but surely there would be a lot of other places I would love to go to... I did make a dream awake, but in the hindsight I am not quiet sure how much of that dream was really mine.