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If you haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t already, please read the introduction post<\/a>. That will give you context for this page.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Your head\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in the clouds again, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

From a young age, it was clear that my daydreaming was problematic.<\/p>\n

Daydreamers don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t pay enough attention to adults.<\/p>\n

Daydreamers don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t concentrate enough on grown up things.<\/p>\n

Daydreamers rudely live in a world that others can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t access.<\/p>\n

Daydreamers are impractical.<\/p>\n

Daydreamers are too easily distracted.<\/p>\n

Shame on us!<\/p>\n

Shame on us?<\/p>\n

\"picture<\/a><\/p>\n

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think so.<\/p>\n

Daydreamers don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stay needlessly trapped in a mundane world.<\/p>\n

Daydreamers are the visionaries who change our world with their innovations and inventions.<\/p>\n

Daydreamers are the ones who push on for big goals because that daydreaming helped them grow deep roots that would let them survive trials.<\/p>\n

Daydreamers are the artists, able to transport even the non-daydreamers to other worlds because they (the daydreamers) have spent time in those worlds though their bodies are trapped in this one.<\/p>\n

Daydreamers are accessing a little more magic and, therefore, a little more joy, even if that joy isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t what you see as joy.<\/p>\n

So, yes, indeed, I am unabashedly a daydreamer. And the older and busier I get, the more decadent and nourishing my daydream time is. I wallow in that as often as possible. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not inclined to apologise, much less feel ashamed. I love my inner world too much to sully it with unnecessary shame.<\/p>\n

p.s. My head isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t in the clouds; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in the stars and in entirely other worlds.<\/p>\n

Cross-posted<\/a> to the Not Ashamed section of my site (so that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all tidy).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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