a dream

have you ever been inspired by a dream before?

i mean an actual dream that you woke up so happily to... not an amazing goal or aspiration you've had for your life.
this morning i woke up feeling like there was a better place than the Lebanon we are now living in...i remembered the rest of the world and it's beauty. it's diversity and joy. the colors it finds to fill us up with love, peace and tranquility. i felt hope in a time of drakness
i had forgotten to remember how there is beauty to the fullness of life everywhere, and how now we are being deprived of that as a hijacked peoples currently basically being taken hostage by whatever hating forces be present (because they are many and don't let the media fool you into believing that it's 'this devil that starts with the letter H').

in my dream i arrived to a house...and upon my setting foot within, felt that there was something different and special about it. immediately i was greeted by my friends who lived there. it was my first time visiting them and i had never seen these people before in my (real, non-dream) life who were particularly colorful and vivacious people surrounded also by a unique, funky and colorful setting. we sat down in the living room where there were cages in many places often and usually void of animals. I LOVE ANIMALS, btw! with time slowly these animals they had in their home began to appear one by one.
there were giraffes (without their spot shapes), donkeys, dogs, felines (also without their spots so i couldn't tell what they were), seals, and other animals. the thing is, that they were tiny...each was about the size of a tall mug maybe. they never seemed to overcrowd one place of the house but, they were so sweet and all over the place, always together in their families or groups as they may be in the wild. segregated actually, which i guess speaks parallels to this wold we all live in...being also animals ourselves. it was a little wonder where they actually co-existed in this place all together with maybe 3 humans living there with them. it didn't even smell in the house at all! i don't remember recognizing a scent of any kind.

it's funny, now awake it makes me think of Lebanon. i feel often like (no offense to the Lebanese that are reading this PLEASE!) we are a bunch of savage and wild animals living here, but in this case without care for one another just each individual to themselves. now, i know that often times this is NOT the case but it usually feel like it, honestly (see blog entry rude). in this dream the animals of various species and families were all living together with the humans but in their own little sub-communities. couldn't the Lebanese and the people of this world do the same? how hard would it be? coexistence and the acknowledgment of other species (in our case races') presence. but is it that hard to live side by side in peace and stop with a continuous repetition of cycles of fighting, violence and war? if genocides and atrocities have occurred between Turks towards Armenians, and white South Africans towards black South Africans, Israelis towards Palestinians, and Americans towards Vietnamese, Japanese, Iraqis, Afghans, and whomever else received their deadly weapons in aid to use them in force towards those they oppressed and many others then also do the Lebanese impose war and violence over and over on one another and each other...what do we call this? like when a mother eats her young or a sacrifice takes place over and over but this time not for the gods that were once believed in but for what the aggressor's party feels maybe the betterment of the place where they live, maybe even for the betterment of this world. you can watch this. how naive and how ignorant...we must cease this hate. may we learn from our fellow mammals, reptiles, birds, and fish. such a disgusting place we've come to live in it sometimes feels.

i must have been affected a lot by a nice artist named Gregory Colbert that i read an article about the day before the dream and who's website George and i really enjoyed afterwards-BEAUTIFUL!
http://www.ashesandsnow.org/