All Hallow's Eve

Its Halloween! One of my favorite days of the year, full of manic mahem, candied delusions, costumes and fun. It is amazing how free people feel when they take up a mask or costume. The disguise frees them from the constraints of their "normal" self and allows them to explore the possiblities of the "other" self that they now occupy. William Shakespeare often explored this theme. In his "As You Like It", Rosalind uses her disguise as Ganymede to be close to Orlando. Well, there's more to it than that, but try reading the play, you'll learn more that way(I love heroic couplets).

Until from Dreaming wakes

But what if you never sleep? How would dreaming occur? I don't sleep anymore, or at least I don't dream. The future is a murky morass, looming ahead of me. The beacon of my dreams has gone dim, and I have no steering remaining to me.

How very "Zen" this moment is; since I have no future to dream about, I can live wholly in the moment. But is the clarity of the moment worth sacrificing a vision of the future?

And then I wonder, does scripting my thoughts into the written word shape my current state of affairs and then make it mundane? Have I hollowed out my life and made it into a paltry shade of what it could be? Instead of dreaming, I write.