Silence really can be golden...

It's not always the best idea to talk about your dreams and aspirations with others, especially when it's a fledgling dream that hasn't fully taken form yet.

In the beginning, you may have a sense of its shape or a prescience of your future direction if you choose to follow the dream. In these times, the dream may be fragile. It exists in your nurturing mind, a mind that accepts it even though you may not have answered all of the questions that must inevitably be answered about its impact on you and your life. The excitement lights your eyes and your heart soars with the possibilities before you. Most eagerly, you attempt to share with others and discover that they may well question for details that you do not have in this early stage. Trying to bring your inner knowing to the rest of the world could put your tender new dream in jeopardy. Sometimes these things are meant to be kept inside.

So, for now, let the dream be nurtured within, as a baby is held safely and warmly within its mother during gestation. Let no one prod or poke at your tender new reality. Hold it, learn who it is, experience the precious joy that comes with any new discovery. Create a knowing between you and your dream that strengthens your understanding of it. When the emotional and spiritual giddyness has transformed to deeper surety, then it is time to share.

Newborn dreams are too precious to throw to the unappreciative and careless. When your dream can stand safely on its own legs, though a bit wobbly even still, then it is time to test it against the outer world.