The dream was so enlightening I wanted to linger in it for as long as possible. I stayed still without moving a muscle remaining connected to my dream state for a few more minutes. When I finally turned to get out of bed, I made a solemn promise to retain the lesson provided by my nighttime experience.
My fascinating dream started in a panic. I was on a flight to Paris with a group of tourists, all strangers, when I realized I’d forgotten to bring any form of currency. Now in real life that would be something I could resolve, but in this fantasy world it meant spending two weeks in the City of Lights sans money for food, essentials and souvenirs. My head began pounding with a nasty stress headache. The thing I wanted at that moment, even more than money, was an Ibuprofen, also an item left behind.
Feeling utterly miserable I started to wonder if I died. Oscar Wilde once said, “When Americans die, they go to Paris.” Did this mean I was going to spend all of eternity in Paris without a lousy franc?
Suddenly I had a one of those light bulb moments. I would ask everyone on the plane for a small contribution to sustain me.
Gaining my courage I stood up, announced my plight to the group and walked down the aisle collecting funds from my kindhearted flight mates.
By the time we deplaned, my headache cured itself and I had enough to at least feed myself. I don’t remember much more about the dream except that I was immensely happy with very little in Paris. I enjoyed the simplicity of existing on inexpensive meals and exploring every free venue in the city.
My three takeaways from my dream flight to Paris go like this:
- If you need help, ask for it. Don’t try to go it alone. Sure I had to swallow my pride and look like a blonde bird-brain who doesn’t have it all together, but such is life. It happens, deal with it.
- Make the most of the moment. Whether it’s a trip to Paris, or your kid’s soccer game be mindful of where you are. No thinking about the pile of unfinished work at the office or laundry at home.
- Someone once said, “everything is figure-out-able.” Stay with your problem until you have a plan A and a plan B. Get creative and find some sort of solution.
Wishing you sweet and insightful dreams!
Only you could make this into such a positive and fun adventure! Great way to start the new year, Thanks Sunny for the great stories!
What a wonderful solution! Thank you Sunny!
Love this message! 2017 is ripe with dreams, creative solutions and living in the moment!
Sunny, I love this and agree. Keep calm and have Plan B! Looking forward to a simple/fun 2017, and working on living in the moment.
This was great! I hope I was one of the passengers in the dream to help you out. Happy New Year, Sunny.
Sunny, you always “hit the mark”! I adore reading your blogs!!!!
You always know the right things to talk about.
What a great article. Many times Plan B is better than Plan A. Thank you for sharing your
positive wisdom. Your articles are always so uplifting. This one I read several times because it is so helpful!