Dreamers are among the most feared people that this world produces because dreamers are comparable to lighted torches/candles. When other torches/candles are lit from each other the light of the original or any is not diminished but rather each add to the luminescence and the place becomes brighter. Dreamers are also comparable to rivers which start out very small in the mountains but as they flow they are joined by tributaries until they become so mighty that they flow even through the dry and arid deserts.
Dreamers are light and light cannot be hid by darkness because the more intense the dark then the more obvious is the light. It is a well established fact that light attracts while darkness is more conducive to the things that are not openly displayed or fit for all eyes to see. In a similar way to light, however, dreamers attracts and ignite others to better and glorious heights. Those persons who are attracted and ignited by the visions of the dreamers do not take away from the light of the dreamers for each has their own wick and fuel to sustain the dream and enhance the glow.
In recent times man has seen fit to be proactive and to preclude collateral damages, so man has gone about taking preventative actions. Man has changed the courses of rivers, dammed lakes and rivers, set forest fires, cut down forests and assassinated dreamers among other things.
The changing of river courses has not mitigated floods but certainly interfered with the natural ecology of many areas and sometimes made flooding worse. In many instances wisdom has prevailed and the rivers have been returned to their natural courses. Dams are valuable assets but have also been the sources of many disasters. There are many dams that remain disasters waiting the right time to happen. Controlled forest fires are set by man to minimize the perceived damage caused by natural forest fires. These controlled forest fires have been discovered to prevent the forests from naturally regenerating. Now man has realized his mistake and acknowledge that what he has created instead is a disaster waiting to happen. The destruction of forest have resulted in less rainfall and when it rains there are floods and mudslides. The fertility of the land is also diminished. There continue to be assessed potential damage and disasters that may possibly result from man's interference with the order of nature.
Then there are the dreamers that men fear because dreamers have ideas of change and visions of making the lives of others better. Two of the opponents with which dreamers must contend are the dream killers and the status quo. There are person who are programmed to oppose by default and it does not matter the brilliance of the dream they oppose and refuse to support the majority. The status quo are those who are comfortable with the state of affairs and fear loss if changes happen. These fears can be real or imaginary. Historically the status quo have found it necessary to find ways to bring about the death of dreamers.
Man needs renewal and regeneration and looks to dreamers to provide a way forward. Dreamers are, however, often marked for death because dreamers are catalysts for change and there will be those who believe changes should not occur. In the forests the old trees mature, age and die and new trees must grow to replace these. Among men ideas and systems grow old and irrelevant and new ideas and concepts must be born to replace these. It is the task of the dreamers to originate and propagate these new ideas and concepts.
This is part of the dreamers dilemma because some persons will readily embrace the need for change, the status quo will oppose the changes and some persons will remain stagnant until moved by the tide of change.
Dreamers does not envision taking away from others to enhance their glow rather they ignited others so that together all become light shining in the darkness. Each person being ignited by the other without diminishing the light of the other.
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