“I’ve gotta dream, and I put a lot of effort into that dream, and I’ll be damned if I ain’t gonna make that dream happen in the way that I originally intended, even though time has moved on, circumstances have changed, and that dream, in it’s original dreamy state, doesn’t even look like such a good idea to me anymore”.

And there you have the recipe for a restless unhappiness, which can negatively affect everything from personal peace of mind to close relationships.

Bending A Dream, isn’t the same thing at all as trashing it.

And the specifics of how we learn to adapt and flex our dreaming muscles will vary for all of us. But nobody wants or needs an arthritic dream.