Dreams vs. Fantasies

So, I don't know where I've been all this time, but just recently I have discovered "Glee". Oh. My. Sweetness. It is so good. I'm newly obsessed and wish I had jumped on the Glee bandwagon a long time ago! Sadly, Hulu and Fox.com don't have all of the episodes online. I've got to get around that somehow. All that to say. I'm a new "Gleeker" (aka: Glee fan).
So I've thought about the difference between dreams and fantasies a lot. There's a difference, ya know? As far as I can remember, any time I filled out those "Get to know you" sheets or talked to anyone about what I want to do when I "grow up", I was always 1 of 2 things: be a professional singer or a teacher. Hellooo?! Those can't be any different! So here's the deal, a dream is something that you can and will achieve. A fantasy is something that you'd love to do, but it's maybe not reality.

For example, my one true dream has been to find the man of my dreams, get married, and live a honeymoon life forever! Have a few babies and do family things all the time. Family vacations, be a football mama, do my daughter's hair for her dance competition (without being the crazy mama), make big dinners for my family, go to church together, have lots of family pets together (including a pot bellied pig!!), live in a big house with a pool and a slide, but then at the end of the day, I wanna always going back to my best friend, my husband, and fall asleep together and then start our day all over again. Sounds awesome right? And the thing is, I AM living the dream. I married the greatest guy in the world! We had a perfect wedding day and went on the dream honeymoon! I vividly remember going on family vacations, thinking, "Man, I can't want to travel with my husband. I wanna go on a romantic honeymoon." That was me. Jamie and I were that madly in love newlywed couple traveling to Maui together. I truly am living my own dream and I wouldn't trade it for the world.

Jamie and I on our Honeymoon in Maui, standing on our balcony

But then, there is my fantasy: living in New York City, persuing the Broadway scene. After I saw WICKED in Summer 2007, I was in love. I was bound and determined to be on a Broadway show one day, preferably WICKED and play the roll of Elphaba. And even though there isn't a single moral roll in RENT, I still adore that show. I'm no where near talented enough to play the roll of Christine Daae on Phantom. I'm the wrong color to play the roll of Nala in The Lion King. But for real, I really did want to be on Broadway. And now that I'm hooked on "Glee", it has just boosted my desire to follow my fantasy. But remember...that's not reality for me. And I'm okay with that! I'm living the dream, and that's a lot better! I'll just have to go to NYC every now and then and live through the Broadway stars to fulfill my fantasy! Plus, I can always pretend I'm a superstar by belting out my showtunes while I'm cooking, singing into the spatula....not that I really do that or anything...