the real world

It is truly an amazing place, this world we live in. The incredible beauty of our planet, the diversity of life that has evolved here, the mysteries of the universe. How lucky we are to have these amazing bodies with which to experience it all. The free will to choose, to choose whether to do good or bad with our time here.

And then there is the world of our dreams, where anything is possible. Where our words and actions have no consequence. Where our joy and pain, our wonder and terror are all fleeting. The canvas erased each morning, to be re-created the next night.

The late great Roy Orbison said it best in his song "In the Real World"

In dreams we do so many things
We set aside the rules we know
And fly the world so high
In great and shining rings

If only we could always live in dreams
If only we could make of life
What, in dreams, it seems

But in the real world
We must say real goodbyes
No matter if the love will live
It will never die

In the real world
There are things that we can't change
And endings come to us
In ways that we can't rearrange

I love you, and you love me
But sometimes we must let it be
In the real world
In the real world

When we were dreaming heart to heart
I wish that we had stayed right there
For when the dreamers do awake
The dreams do disappear

If only we could always live in dreams
If only we could make of life
what, in dreams, it seems

But in the real world
We must say real goodbyes
No matter if the love will live
It will never die