If you are low on inspiration, it may be because you are not dreaming. Read on...Marsha Sigman, a writer at Helium tells us in a beautiful way how great life is now that she has started to dream again...

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The dreams we have when we are young are rarely fulfilled. The greatest tragedy of being an adult is to give up those dreams and never try to achieve them. The reality of life drowns the innocence and belief of childhood. Remember when you believed anything was possible? If you wished hard enough you could make it happen?

When I was a child I daydreamed of being a famous writer. I would live in Scotland where my ancestors once lived and I would write wonderful stories of fantasy and magic. Apparently I was not the only one with this dream. As I grew older my life took turns that I did not foresee and the dreams were forgotten for a time.

In the sheer boredom and depression of day-to-day living, you know within yourself something is not as it should be. You are not doing what you were meant to do. One day rolls into the next, unsatisfying and monotonous. This is how I felt until the day I found the picture of Scotland below.

In a second all the dreams came rushing back. A flood of images and ideas that were once forgotten returned and now could not be denied.

In that one picture was all that I had ever dreamed of. A thousand stories live inside that frame. The power of that image haunts me. I know that such a place does exist and the beauty of it inspires me to believe that all things are possible again. There is magic left in the world. A great man once said to hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die; life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

When circumstances are beyond my control and it seems that there is no solution, I look at that picture and I remember all the joy and excitement that I felt as a child. I let it fill me up and I let my dreams fly.

Life is all about second chances. A second chance at the dreams we have forgotten is all we can ask. Growing up does not have to mean giving up. If it does then I hope I never grow up and remain a child forever in my dreams.