Grieving Lost Dreams 🌹

Come come sit with me, grab yourself a drink and pull up a chair.

Have you ever had one of those weeks… or maybe even months… where you feel like you’re grieving, but you’re not fully sure what you’re grieving about?

I realized my grief was about lost dreams.

You know… we all carry these pictures in our heads of how we think life is going to look. The things we thought we would have by now. The people we thought would still be beside us. The moments we were sure would happen one day.

But then time passes… and some of those dreams never get fulfilled the way we imagined they would.

Some of those dreams have truly passed on… and honestly, that hurts.

The strange thing is, you think you’ve let them go. You think you’ve made peace with them.

But then out of nowhere, they pop back up unexpectedly… and you realize the ache is still there.

I think sometimes we grieve the life we thought we would have by a certain age.

Maybe we pictured marriage, children, more security, a different career, a different version of ourselves… or maybe just feeling more “settled” than we do right now.

And when life doesn’t unfold the way we imagined, it can leave this quiet sadness sitting in our hearts that’s hard to explain to other people.

One of my dreams is truly gone.
But another one?
It’s still within reach.

And now the question becomes… how do I get there?

LOL… let me tell you, it’s a lot harder than I thought it would be. 😄

No… I’m not going to tell you what the dreams are. Some things need to be kept close to the heart until they’re ready to be revealed.

All I’m saying is… grieve the dreams that were lost, but don’t get lost in them.

Let yourself feel the sadness of what didn’t happen… and then slowly allow yourself to dream again, and give yourself permission to create new dreams too.

Because sometimes life doesn’t give us the story we pictured in our heads…
but that doesn’t mean there still isn’t a beautiful story waiting for us. 🌹

I guess what I’m learning is that life keeps changing us.
Some dreams fade away, some break our hearts a little… and some are still sitting there quietly waiting for us to try again.

Maybe that’s the beautiful part of life though… the story isn’t over yet. 🌹

✨ Whisper: Some dreams end… but that doesn’t mean life is finished dreaming for us.

If this one sat with you, I’d love to hear from you.

You can email me anytime at loveandlifewithlisa@gmail.com.

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