I want to live quietly. To go back to how it was before modern life came and swept away so much of what people used to know years ago. I want to go back to a time where women listened to the call inside them and made their houses beautiful and loved their families, where you would be criticized for going out into the world on your own but not for living quietly with your husband. I want to go back to a time when girls weren’t bombarded by people asking them what college they were going to or what career they would go into, when people worked with their hands and farms were not a wonder to see.
I don’t think it’s silly or wrong to have simple dreams. Because though society laughs at them, they are sometimes the most important things you could ever wish for. What is life, anyway? Is it the big goals and grand resolutions to change the world, or is it the very small things that no one ever sees? Death comes to us all. People live, die, and are forgotten. Even those of greatness are not always remembered, their deeds not always held in regard. The vapor of your life will fade away in an instant, and what will it have been worth? I don’t want to live for big things and remarkable deeds. They are deceitful things – promising happiness, but many times snatching it away instead. I want to take each second of my life and live it as I was intended to, with the people I love, knowing that they, too, will be gone someday, and the chance for love will have passed. I want to live knowing I will die, and not being frightened of it. I want to serve Jesus the whole time, knowing that He is really all that matters, that He is the one I will go to when I do die.
My dreams in life aren’t to be a well-known designer or a famous photographer. I love design, I love photography, but they aren’t my life. I want to get married young and have a family. I want to learn how to grow my own food and have just enough to be comfortable and live as simply as I can. Society can laugh, but that is my dream.
What’s yours?
Beautiful, Hannah. Thank you.
I love this. What a beautiful, beautiful dream.
yes. this. i have a lot of dreams. some big and lofty. others small and minuscule. but they all come second to this. this is my biggest dream. i’d love to marry young and have a big family. biological kiddos as well as adopted. i don’t want to “settle” down with them though. i want to travel the world as a family. be educated by the world. i want to live in another country. i want to work in an orphanage. i want to be a professional designer. but i want to do it all (or not at all) with a family. however, i guess it’s not much up to me. it’s all in God’s hand. and you know what, i feel like if i don’t get married young (or at all) i’ll still be happy and have a fufilling life. dude, im rambling, but thank you for this! you really made me start thinking. xx | natalia.
This was beautiful…& beyond anything else I could ever hope to be, or do, marrying & raising a family is my highest & most constant dream.
I lovelovelove your dream. It’s incredible. I dunno what my dream would be- wait, I take that back. Let me introduce you to my dream. (My dream is a bit childish in some ways, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that!)
It would be in a place I like to picture myself in, Sun Cloud. I’d be a princess, who secretly in love with one of the villagers in the village below my castle, when I’m supposed to marry the prince in the kingdom of Starr Cloud (I’m really bad with names, and yes, I meant to r’s). Every night we’d have Church services, praising God, praying- we’d even have mid-day devotionals in the Holy Room in my castle.
When it came to the mid-day devotionals, I held the one for the teens. My parents taught the adults, and my lil sister had the younger kids. In the Holy Room, we’d 12 lanterns lit while the room was dark. (12 for the 12 Disciples) We’d sing three songs every night. We’d always sing Light the Fire first, every day. Then two others.
I would want to read a few Bible passages, each passage depending on what we’re learning about.
Then, every day at 3:45, I’d see the boy I liked. Then, eventually we’d get married and have two daughters and a son, and name them Azalia, Carly, and Ashton. (Ends quick, well, that’s all I’ve come up with!)
Hopefully you like my dream as muych as I lovelovelove yours! Sincerely, [ Meena ]
btw, I plan on writing these kinds of comments more often!
This is lovely, Hannah. That’s my heart too!
May all your dreams come true my dear!!!!
:-)
Hannah…thank you so much for this. I have always wanted to go back in time and live like that, especially as I am attempting to decide what I will do for my post-high school life. I love your dream.
Love this, Hannah :)
This is my dream, too. What I want more than anything else is to get married young, have a big family and use my life to glorify Jesus Christ. I have other dreams, sure. But this is the biggest.
You have no idea how happy it makes me when I hear that I’m not alone!
Thank you all for your sweet comments. <3 How neat it is that many of us share the same dreams! What is so comforting to me is that all of them will come true if that’s what God has in His plans for us…and that is so reassuring. =)
This is just beautiful, Hannah! You’ve got a lovely soul, dear one.
xoxo | grace
Thanks Grace. <3