Today I took a nap and had a bizarre and funny dream. My sister and her husband, Jen and Kevin, were riding on these giant stationary camels in Kevin's parents front room. They were really too big to be in the room and they kind of galloped in place like those fake bulls you have to try and stay on. I was watching and thought it was fabulous. I asked Jen where her mother-in-law got the camels from and she said, "I have no idea, she won't tell me and she won't tell me how much they cost either. It's soooo annoying!" Then I woke up. What the heck?
Sometimes my dreams make sense and I can see how the events of the day or week or a problem I'm thinking about or something that I've watched on TV surfaces and I get a random dream but it sort of makes sense. Then sometimes I have totally off the wall camel riding dreams that make no logical sense at all. I think my thought patterns when I'm awake are sometimes like that too. I have fantastical ideas about things and get excited, but then later on realise they are just as non-sensical as riding a bucking camel inside a house. I enjoy my crazy thought though and very occasionally wish I had carried them out just for fun.
My wedding poodles come to mind. Before I got married, I went shopping with my friend Jen in Seoul and it was very late at night and we were in the night market which is a veritable feast for your senses. I spotted these beautiful white poodle soft toys and wanted them in my wedding. I had the brilliant idea of tying the wedding rings around their necks and having my ring bearer carrying them up the aisle so I actually bought them. Phil was just like, "what in the world?" In the light of a new day, they did look a little ridiculous and I ended up giving them to a family with small children before I left Korea, but I do still think about them sometimes and wish I'd sneaked them into my wedding.
I wonder if any of the brainstormy ideas I'm getting at the moment about careers and work will ever come back to haunt me like those poodles. When I'm 80 will I wish I'd become a photographer or a journalist or a trapeze artist? I think I'm going to keep brainstorming the fantastical while working on the realistic and perhaps I'll end up somewhere in the middle. Maybe watching my sister galloping excitedly on a camel, perhaps I could monetize that?
My quote for today is from Albert Einstein, “Imagination is more important that knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
I don't have a photo of the infamous wedding poodles, so here's a photo of Phil and I at our wedding instead. I wish I'd had some fantastic ride on camels for the celebrations as well.
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