When I was much younger, I could lose so much time daydreaming. Musing over the future. Sometimes fanciful, sometimes downright obscure.
I was sat watching my 9-year-old yesterday, just sat there on the sofa, a book in her lap that she wasn’t reading. A flicker of a smile on her face, staring off into space. I hesitated, I nearly broke the daydream by asking her something pointless like ‘have you finished you homework’ when I stopped.
Why break that moment?
I remember my daytime dreams being almost recuperative. A time for my brain to move in to a fantasy land of wishes and hopes. Do I daydream now? No, I don’t think I do!
Is it because I’m too busy, or is it because my brain just doesn’t work like that anymore. I honestly can’t remember the last time I daydreamed. Our lives are so over stimulated, too much noise and stuff happening. It got me to thinking, do I ever just sit there and just be?Let my mind escape the rush, the noise and stress of modern-day life. Turn everything off….even twitter.
And just be.
My daughter was happy, whatever it was that she thinking about was filling her with happiness. That makes me so very happy.
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What a lovely post! I’m afraid you will still catch me daydreaming, never quite got to grips with the whole reality thing 🙂 Here’s to lots more daydreaming for Ms N xx
Yes, I hope she never stops!!
I really enjoyed reading this post – so pleased to hear that you didn’t interrupt her daydream. It’s a good reminder that we need to give our children chance to think their own throughts.
It’s so true Ruth, but it also made me nostalgic about my own daydreams!
I love to Daydream too, but it’s very rare now. I think I do just before sleeping when I’m unwinding. Also something when I read. x
I really need to read more. It was one of my most favourite things. Just never find the time anymore. But I’m going to!
What a lovely post! I think I’m still a daydreamer, although the lure of Twitter takes up the time that I used to spend daydreaming…there is probably a lesson to be learned there 🙂
I think you’ve got it in one there…*shakes fist at twitter* 😉
Thats it.. think Im going to allow myself 5 mins daydreaming.. lovely post, I find myself wondering where Miss N had found herself..
Well, at the moment its always a Harry Potter book she’s reading, so I imagine she’s was pausing with dreams of spells and Hermione.
Happy daydreaming!
Touching! And I like the photo. I think I often daydream too much, oftentimes walking around with a blank expression as my mind is in another world.