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Dreams...What If Questions.

What if after 30 years of dreaming about one dream, you discover that it is the wrong dream and that the dream that has been waiting for you is simply collecting layers of dust? What if the reason that you have been chasing this one particular dream is comfort? What if you turned around and took a risk on the dream that was collecting dust? What would you do? Would you risk losing a long lost dream or would you take a risk? The answer is why not? What happens to a dream deferred?

A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

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