These dreams go on when I close my eyes...

Now I have that song stuck in my head. Thanks Heart. (Just as a side note, if you have 3 minutes and 49 seconds to spare, which I am assuming you do since you took the time to read this, you should watch that Heart music video. It's all kinds of strange)

So dreams. I have crazy dreams, often. Not dreams for my life, but like the kind you have at night when you are asleep. Anyone who knows me and is willing to listen to me talk for more than 20 minutes knows that my dreams are downright odd.

Last night I had one that was weird but also incredibly inspirational. Jennifer Lawrence was in it, not as Katniss Everdeen, which would have been AWESOME, but just as herself. Equally awesome. We were shopping in the forest. Don't ask me what that means, because I really don't know. We weren't talking or anything, just forest shopping. Then, out of nowhere Jen reaches over and taps me on the shoulder, so naturally I turn and look at her. Everything gets really serious and she says, "Listen. Just do you, you know?"

Wow. Just do you. What a concept. What a hard lesson to learn. Often I feel like I have to change what I want or who I am in order to please other people. It's hard, it's exhausting, and I am tired of it. It has taken me years and one Jennifer Lawrence-forest shopping dream to finally grasp this concept of just doing you. I doubt I will always be able to follow her advice, but I sure am going to try. And now every time I go forest shopping I will think back fondly on that one time that Jennifer Lawrence and I hung out. It's going to be awesome.