One Day

A few years ago, I spent sometime in the company of dreamers. I group of people who had addictions that ruled there lives, people how sought escape form the despair of their dull and dreary lives with the use of dream.
They would use television drugs and greed to show them their dreams.
They would collect the dreams so that when they meet they would discuss them and share they in a weird fanatical conversations.
The would avoid conversations on other topics having very little to discuss.

I hear them talk of their dreams was so shame full in it's way, aspirations that were so beyond their capabilities.
The wishes of our materialistic society the kind of considerations that only apply to the 1% of the population, that have over 50% of the wealth.
The dreams were not fantastical, psychedelic or erotic but were specific material.

They would sit about and discuss the things they would do when they would win the lotto, or when what ever get rich quick seam that they were pondering over today.
There is noting truly wrong in there actions, Indeed it is quite common to consider what one would do when the value of something is not measured in little pieces of paper anymore.

The issue that gets me bloging is the way that they believed in it.
That it was no longer just a simple dream that held a universal entertainment value but something that required constant contemplation.
They shaped there lives so that attaining the dream it self was the main focus and not attaining the thing with that the dream showed them.
They organised their lives so there was noting left to distract them, giving up or losing their jobs, dropping out of collage, living in spartan accommodation, and disassociating them selves from people that did not follow their rituals.

Do people require beliefs? Do we all need in someway to be fanatical over something, be it music follow, a collector of some kind, football fan, a priest, avenger or drug addict. What happens when a person stop seeking that obtainable goal. Do they become followers of dreams.