Dreams to buy

Source: A poem and me.
Mar 09 2010 01:02 PM

For some people, buying things is nothing to do with money: they simply buy what they want to. If they see a car whose colour matches with their favourite suit, they buy the car. If their stressful lives in the city do not let them enjoy life to the full, they book a couple of weeks in a five-star hotel somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Money does not matter because they have all they need and much more.

However, imagine there was a shop that sold people?s dreams. Imagine you could buy somebody?s dream and make it come true, which one would you buy? Would you buy a romantic dream or a gory dream? Would you buy a happy dream or a sad one? Would you buy a dream that made you laugh or one that made you cry?

If you could buy a dream that could change the world, would you buy it? What about if you had to pay with your own life?



Dream-Pedlary
by Thomas Lowell Beddoes (1803-1849)

IF there were dreams to sell,
What would you buy?
Some cost a passing bell;
Some a light sigh,
That shakes from Life's fresh crown 5
Only a rose-leaf down.
If there were dreams to sell,
Merry and sad to tell,
And the crier rang the bell,
What would you buy?

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