Pragmatists 3 Daydreamers 1!

Self-explanatoryto those who're capable of thinking, that is!

By Stanley Collymore

 

Dreams are the means that we regularly employ,

whether consciously or involuntarily so, to

hopefully either circumvent or attempt

to postpone, and possibly forever,

the harsher experiences of

life with which we find

ourselves confronted and don’t really know

how best or most suitably to deal with

these problems; a fabricated world

of daydreams conflated with

legitimate aspirations and

where reality, if at all

allowed a look in,

is generally not

permitted to

play any

major

part.

 

Reality however is the very antithesis of dreams;

and though not always welcomed or specially

favoured by the overwhelming majority

of daydreamers is all the same, I

firmly believe, still our best

chance of pragmatically

tackling and dealing successfully

with life’s various difficulties,

as well as our best hope of

realizing if not all of

them, then surely

most of our

cherished

dreams!

 

© Stanley V. Collymore

3 January 2014.

 

 

Criterion:

Among my diverse outdoor activities and sporting pursuits cricket and athletics rank as two of my principal sporting pastimes, but although I also have a full awareness and much more than a proficient knowledge of football or soccer if you prefer to call it thus, principally so because of specific family and a few other personal reasons, this sport is not by any stretch of the imagination one of my major preoccupations, or is it ever likely to be.

 

However, fully cognisant of the role that football obsessively plays in the lives of many of you and that 2014 is the designated year for its next World Cup in Brazil, I thought that the football analogy used in the title of this poem might be an appropriate vehicle to get over to you the message, which is inherent in the poem itself; that pragmatism on average usually trumps daydreaming 3-1 in life’s everyday race to succeed.