"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."

Okay, so now to take a break from Peter Pan, this is a Harry Potter quote! Woo!
Now that we have that out of the way, This particular quote comes from the... first book, yes! I choose it because it's still kind of like the last blog post I did, about dreams, but unlike my last blog post this one discourages you from living on your dreams.
As a child, you play pretend, you dream but soon when you grow up and then it no longer becomes socially acceptable to just sit at home all day dreaming, you need to live too. I'm not saying don't dream, because we need dreams to function, even some adults dream, but you don't see them dwell on them now do you? No they live, and sometimes they live out their dreams.
At eleven, when Hogwarts letters are sent out, most of the kids are in that state where they want to be all grown up and want nothing to do with childish things, so it's a good age, and at Hogwarts they do a lot of growing up, but the acceptance age is the one I want to focus on. Eleven, to young to be a teenager, but to old to be a child. A (Personally I think) very awkward age, you're going to through puberty and you don't really know what to do with your self. You want to be all grown up and participate in grown up things, but because they still see you as a young child, you can't. You may think you're to old to even dream, or read fairy tales, well, I was probably the only eleven year old who still watched disney fairy tales on a regular basis. That's because I was young, and I liked grown up things, like sitting at the adults table instead of the kids table at family gatherings, or being involved in their conversations, but I couldn't really partake in them now could I? I was a child.
Some kids don't like to dream, even when they're young, to go it alone with no hopes or dreams to back them up in life, and I certainly was not that that child! I loved to dream, I could sit for hours on our window seat, looking out our front windows; watching the squirrels play, wishing, DREAMING that I could be one of them. I soon learned that being a squirrel would probably suck, but still I loved to dream about their lives.
I'm seventeen now, a far cry from that little girl who sat on the window to dream about the life of small woodland creatures, I think now about my future, what I want to be when I grow up, (which I guess I should've thought about that a long time ago..) I think about love, and what it really is, and I think maybe someday that it could be for me.

-Birdy


"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."