I posted this text originally in Portuguese on 13th of May, 2016.
That expression caused a small
storm in my brain: 'You need to gain momentum'. Huh ?! 'Did I miss
anything?'
People nodded in agreement
with the speaker, and I, the same, but with my mind full of little questions.
It seemed to me that the rest of the lecture on Dreams and Purpose had that statement as its central
axis, and I was itching with curiosity.
My restlessness was not in
vain. When I had time, I went to search for that word, a little mystery, which
I discovered to be a treasure. It was then that I put the pieces of the puzzle
together and understood the difference between dream and DREAM. And how to make
the last one HAPPEN.
My research led me to
understand that momentum has a lot of what the word suggests, that is, moment
and movement. But it is not limited to it. Momentum is a physics concept
that has to do with impulse, change. And most essential and significant of all,
the strength you put in making the balance tip ‘in your favor’.
But what I also discovered
was that the time frame in which one gains momentum requires a pseudo inertia.
A quiet moment in the cocoon and the humble crawl of a caterpillar. A good dose
of inertia. Yes. But a dignified and effective inertia, enriched by
study, preparation, knowledge and reflection, where your dream can be founded
on, because where 'there is no foundation, nothing can be built upon…' (Psalm
11: 3) safely. A quiet time where you search to perfect your personal skills
and discover abilities that you don't imagine you have on the depths of you. It
is also a time of confrontation. The moment of truth, good and 'cruel'. The
knowledge of yourself and your TRUE dreams, that is, the dream that was born
with you, that was born in your DNA.
This is an essential
discovery in the process of gaining momentum, for we often dream about 'the
dreams of others', and we end up either not reaching it or when we do, we get frustrated,
because they were never ours. It did not belong to us, nor did it possessed us.
It was who knows, just a suppressed envy, a childish desire and maybe even an
ambition implanted in us by another 'frustrated' with their own never achieved dreams.
An alien 'chip', the product of a parental abduction.
Sometimes, it is difficult to reach this
stage of personal authenticity for various reasons, such as pressures and external tensions that do not
let us hear ‘the voice of our guts’. I really like the word 'guts', which I
recently rediscovered in the Sacred Book in a new and different perspective and
meaning, and in which in all its references is connected to noble feelings of
love, kindness, and even of our true expression in the world.
In the West we relate noble feelings ( or not so noble ) to the
heart, a muscle that pulsates involuntarily, but in the Bible the guts, -
that's our intestinal, inner parts, and that is often only remembered by us
when we have indigestion or when we think about our excretory function (laughs)
- are, in fact, considered our intimate,
our deep, secret place, figuratively 'our heart', and that should, therefore,
be probed, intimately known and purified from what does NOT BELONG to us or in us.
A dream to be a DREAM, has to be visceral. It must be formed and born in our guts,
to be ours. God seeds and words must fertilize it in us, to be ours.
Dreams comes from our secret place, if you dare to know it. And it
takes a lot of courage! There is no point in your dreams coming from the heart of another
person cause each person has its scope, its
direction and contribution to this world. Each person has a different DREAM.
One mission. We donate differently. We
are, in essence, a dream of God. And God is original in His creation. So we must dare to live our life and our dreams. Being our original self and soul.
After the stage of pseudo inertia in
which we discover the soul of our dream, we finally engage in the fight to make it happen, since we had gained the
extraordinary momentum needed to launch. We will finally get out of our comfort zone and take
ownership of the moment to make our DREAMS come true.
