Dream Deferred

When is it time to let go of a dream; to give it up; to come to your senses; to be practical, realistic; to wake up and smell reality? And how much time should you give yourself to accomplish your artistic goals. With today's tough economic times, do you continue to try to make movies, put on a stage play, paint, or do you go get a real job? Realistically, you have to do what you can to sustain life, so that you can continue your artistic endeavours. However, you don't have to give up the dream, which is basically a goal. The dream may have to be reduced to a smaller version, but it does not have to die. It took the British director, Lynne Ramsey (Rat Catcher, Morvern Caller) 8 years to get another project going. The great thing about being artistic is that the desire and the will to create never goes away. So keep dreaming in spite of what life throws at you. It's what keeps me going in such a troubled world.