Dancing on Broadway

In The Heights (Original Cast Recording)

By Jon E Jorgenson

I was having lunch with one of my best friends the other day and he said to me, "Jon, I wish I was more like you." This was not something that I was used to hearing so I asked him what he meant. He said, "I wish I took my dreams more seriously." This intrigued me so I asked him to elaborate, and he began to tell me that when he was little, he dreamed of dancing on Broadway. He was a dancer. And after going to school for dance and spending some time in New York, he wasn't getting any jobs, so he had stopped believing in his dream. He had stopped taking his desire seriously. He was now struggling with whether to give up his dream and find a nine to five, or to continue pursuing his passions and talents. In that moment, I had a clear answer for him.

Too many people in our society today die with their dreams and talents rotting away inside of them. It has risen to the point where one could call it an epidemic. We have lost our desire to live a life that believes in dreams and the possibility to make them reality. We have stopped taking our dreams seriously.

We live in a culture that is supposedly, 'Do it yourself'. Our country was founded on the idea of people who had a fantasy of a better life, so they would pick themselves up by their bootstraps and make that better life happen. But this so-called 'American dream' seems to have died away. So many people dream of greatness when they're younger, only to one day 'grow up' and realize that their dreams are foolish or unrealistic, so they commit themselves to the mindless low-level corporate scene for the rest of their lives in order to make ends meet. Why? Why do we do this?

Erwin McManus in his book Chasing Daylight says this about our dreams...

"There is a voice screaming inside my head, 'Don't sleep through your dreams!' Ever heard that voice? It calls you like a temptress to abandon the monotony of life and to begin an adventure. It threatens to leave you in the mundane if you refuse to risk all that you have for all that could be. If ignored, the voice dims to silent."

The seductive voice of dream led living is dimming so fast in our culture that most people can barely hear even a whisper anymore. Solomon in the book of Ecclesiastes says that there is nothing new under the sun, and we are proving him right if we continue to allow our dreams to die instead of taking a risk to see them come true.

But now the question is, how? How do we fight this dream genocide? The answer is simple. Create. Create, create, create. In a culture where a multi-billion dollar corporation can be built and maintained off of a cellphone we have every facility we need in order to make any dream a reality. The question is, are you willing to take the risk?

Risk-takers are a dying breed in our culture. And by that I mean the good kind of risk taking, not the breaking the law and things of that nature. Those kinds of risk-takers are flourishing. The good kind of risk-takers who take their dreams by the horns and make them happen, these risk-takers are a dying breed. And once they become extinct, then the next step is for dreamers to become extinct. Do not let this happen. Create fellow dreamers, create. click to website >>>Broadway & Vocalists in MP3 Albums

Our society needs dreamers and risk-takers who desire to create a world where creativity flourishes and divine inspiration is morphed into earth-shaking vision. Let us begin to set our dreams free in creativity, so that one day, we can all dance on Broadway.

Jon Jorgenson

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