Clouds and Dreams

You look at the sky and see some clouds drifting about, like sails on the sea. One attracts your attention: its shape is still undefined but it is slowly changing. Little by little, blown by the wind, it starts to take a clearer form. Now you can see it well: it's horse! Yes, it's a perfect horse, with mane, tail and all. But it does not stay so for long. Its contours change and the cloud is transformed into something else. Now you see a car, then an alligator, in a couple of minutes you believe you see a teddy bear, till the wind pushes the cloud too far for you to detect other shapes. Actually, it seems it si dissolving, but you are not sure. Interestingly enough, your dreams follow the same pattern. When you are very young you have no clear vision of what you want your future to be like. Eventually, it all becomes clear, and you make your definite choice. But, as time goes by, circumstances may become different and, as a consequence, your initial plans undergo a change. So, you make another choice and possibly - later on - a different one. Until...