Saturday, April 19, 2014

Which Room?

I had a dream last night that I was looking for my hotel room and I couldn't find it. I had a key, like a real key, not a card, and it listed four different numbers for the room. The trouble was that each floor had the same numbers so I was having to check every floor, and four different rooms on each floor. This was a big building with many floors so it seemed neverending. I kept walking in to everyone else's rooms. I met some nice people doing that, but I started to get very anxious that I was never going to find my room. Alas, I woke up before there was a resolution. I never did find my room. That seems to happen with most of my dreams. They don't get wrapped up in a nice little ending. I am always left hanging.

Well, this was one of those dreams that had me feeling anxious upon waking up. I hate that. And then it made me think. I don't hate that so much...thinking is good, most of the time :)  Oftentimes I feel like I am barging in to other people's rooms. I'm trying really hard to fit in the keyhole, and it just never quite fits but they let me in anyway because they can hear my clamoring at the door. They introduce me to everyone else in the room and invite me to stay, I guess because I seem harmless enough. They invite me back a few times, but since I've never found my room, I'm unable to reciprocate. I am always afraid the invitations will stop. 

What is my room? Is it my life's passion? Is it the dream I am supposed to go after? And why is it so dang hard for me to find? I seem to have a good enough time in everyone else's room...but the desire to find mine just keeps making me feel uneasy. If somebody would just give me the correctly marked key....

And there is where a lightbulb goes off for me. I keep expecting someone else to lay it out for me. Here is the key, here is the floor and room number. And here is the map of the hotel that will tell you exactly how to get there. Somehow, I have to figure out how to do it myself. What would it look like if took a walk around the hotel, saw a few rooms and then very deliberately chose a room? Then, figured out how to mold a key out of hot metal, found the best way to get there from the lobby and printed my own map?  

The anxious feeling seems to have shifted to excited...Crap, I guess I better figure out which hotel to stay at...

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