So i had a dream a few nights ago, and to cut a long story short, would be wrong, so i'll tell you the long story.
So a couple of years ago i used to live in a flat with a flatmate. In the dream, i'm back living in the flat with him and my flatmate decides to give me an awesome sports car called a Safari Bongo. A lovely sleek silvery/grey colour, similar to an Aston Martin, but with it's own quirky features... I think to myself 'oooh niiiice'.
I decide i will drive the car to church (the dream was on a Saturday night so i was dreaming of the next morning). The car is awesome, especially the sound system! But it has one strange design - it doesn't have a normal brake pedal; instead it has what looks like a weird pressure pad. It takes me a while to get used to this. Basically when you press the brake pressure pad it takes about 5 seconds for the car to stop. This is bad when you want to do an emergency stop. Actually it's bad if you are just generally stopping. So i get to some traffic lights that are red and by the time i've managed to brake, i'm already through them by about 20ft. Thankfully they are not the newer traffic lights that have the cameras on top...i get a few strange looks from other drivers that appear to be asking "Why hasn't he stopped?" and "What on earth is a Safari Bongo? I want one!"
So i drive the car back to my flat and tell my flatmate about the weird brake pedal. The first thing he says is "Brake pedal? Sounds more like a BROKE pedal haha!" i politely laugh at his joke. He says to hold on and he'll get the instruction manual. We find out that in order to brake more quickly you need to repeatedly press the brake pressure pad in quick succession, then the car will slow down faster (slow down faster? That sounds wrong!). So all in all a bit of a complicated car. Good sound system and awesome looks, but it might just crash.
So i'm not really sure if there is a point to this dream other than to share it with you. But if there is a point i think it might be this:
Are you sacrificing things to make your life look good on the outside, when on the inside things aren't working properly?
See it doesn't matter how good something looks on the outside, if it's not functioning in the best way on the inside it's probably not that beneficial.
Maybe sometimes it's good to take a look at ourselves and see if there are any funny brake pedals that need looking at. If in doubt, take a trip to the heavenly engineer and see what he has to say :-)
Happy Thursday!
Sam G
