The Impossible Dream, Creativity and NHJ

Is New Hero a modern day Don Quixote - The Man of La Mancha?  I remember in my younger days, I visited La Mancha one summer with the book of Cervantes in my hand, strolling around the hill, and listening to the guitar someone was playing in a courtyard in a small hotel I stayed.  Perhaps, the idea of impossible dream became embedded in my DNA form those days...

Whatever the case is, I love this song very much, "the impossible dream":

To dream the impossible dream

To fight the unbeatable foe

To bear with unbearable sorrow

To run where the brave dare not go

To right the unrightable wrong

To love pure and chaste from afar

To try when your arms are too weary

To reach the unreachable star

This is my quest

To follow that star

No matter how hopeless

No matter how far

To fight for the right

Without question or pause

To be willing to march into Hell

For a heavenly cause

And I know if I'll only be true

To this glorious quest

That my heart will lie peaceful and calm

When I'm laid to my rest

And the world will be better for this

That one man, scorned and covered with scars

Still strove with his last ounce of courage

To reach the unreachable star

Hero is to challenge the obstacles for good.  The challenge is to be creative and to keep the dream alive as in the longing for the endless sea (Antoine Exupery).  Also, since life is, by definition, a fight against the law of entropy which is the tendency toward chaos if left alone, it is nothing but a creative process itself.  Thus, an impossible dream.

Then, I found this comment on the net: 

psychologist Gary Fitzgibbon says an ability to "suspend disbelief" is one way of looking at creativity.... When you suspend disbelief you are prepared to believe anything and this opens up the scope for seeing more possibilities..... Creativity is certainly about not being constrained by rules or accepting the restrictions that society places on us."--Creative minds 'mimic schizophrenia'   By Michelle RobertsHealth reporter, BBC News

So, here is a paradox.  There should be rules for order but to go beyond the rule is the creative process for a better life - thus, a never ending journey.  Then, the law of entropy is a law of nature whereas our life itself  is nothing but the nature's way.  So, there is another paradox.


Then, having a dream may be akin to being creative - as if to reach out to the unknown potential within or without.  Don Quixote says "unreachable star."   Einstein says, "Imagination is power."  Then, may we say if we keep on living in our dream throughout our life, we may be quite happy especially if such a dream connects to our heart - to promote happiness within oneself and without with others?


There are many positives of having a dream:  Liveliness, open-mindedness, child-likeness, insight and wisdom, warm fuzzy feeling / love and compassion...  Connected to the dream and infinite potential, I would like to keep my smile and life's dream of always going beyond.  At the end, life may be a process of manifesting our dream, never-ending dream that is.  


* BTW, Without death, there is no life.  Death is like a law of entropy.  Life is like a phoenix.  So, follow your bliss!  You may then ask, why so much suffering?  Yet, through suffering, there may be a bright shining star born.  In fact, that unreachable star may be you!  Otherwise why do you want to reach that unreachable star?  After all, where the question arises is the answer. The blue bird you seek for is with you - all the time.  To see that is the primary.  (To point this, some may say, God be with you....although interpretation and expressions may vary.)