Power of the Dream 1

"Everyone dreams all the time...Opal shines like stars, but it's underneath. You can't see it. You can't see it, but you can dream about it. The more you dream , the more you wanna dig for it. But, if you dig too deep you may never wake up..."

The quote above came from the movie Opal Dreamwhich I had seen in route to Cape Town. Opal Dream is a movie about a young girl, "Kellyann Williamson" (played by Sapphire Boyce) in an opal mining community who has the imaginary friends that she plays with and keeps her company on a daily basis.

As with many kids, with vivid imaginations, the adults would role play and feed into the young girl's fantasy. She would receive lolly pops for "Pobby and Dingan," because as her imagination would have it, it was their favorite. As the story develops, her imaginary friends one day, being watched by her father and becomes lost in a mining field. Upon the father's return to the home, Kellyanne, not seeing her friends, starts to panic and worry about their safety. Worrying so that she would not let it rest, she causes her father to go out in the middle of the night with a flash light to look for them. A hunt which got him in trouble for "ratting," a term used for miners who were accused of stealing from other miners. Her constant worries also employed her brother to post missing flyers around the town for two imaginary people.

With the stories development, the brother began to find clues that the two friends died in a mining accident. Skeptical to the belief before, the brother now employed by his sister's dream, is now tasked to plan a public funeral for Pobby and Dingan. A funeral for two imaginary friends, planned in a town full of skeptics, complete with coffins, flowers, headstones...the works. In the end, the townspeople attends the funeral. Although skeptics of the existence of Pobby and Dingan before, the funeral caused them to become real in their hearts and minds.

Not thinking I would like this movie, I could not help but find myself being drawn into Kellyanne's world of imagination. Like Kellyanne, I also dream. There are times when I dream so, I sometimes believe that I am out of my mind. Knowing that not every dream that comes to consciousness becomes a reality, I do dream of being successful at whatever I set my mind to doing.

As with Kellyanne's imagination, not only were her friends a thought, to her they actually lived. They lived so, that when they became lost or misplaced she could not rest. For all who dream or hope to dream, our dreams should reside not only in our minds, but also in our hearts. Your dream should live so much to the point that they manifest and become real to others as well.