Having What You Don't

You can have or be whatever you wish.  Our minds allow us to be rich as royalty, brave as travelers in space, fierce as monsters or warriors, glittering as stars on billboards or wild as animals and plants. Imagination takes us anywhere just as a magic carpet could. Here it is Christmas morning and while most are still in bed or scrambling to the tree looking for gifts, all the people who have nothing this day, are thinking about what they desire most and searching and finding it in their dreams. It's like going window shopping and being able to see and think about the gorgeous things behind the glass. They become finer and better, truly, for not being in our hands.You can't feel what's there, but your imagination allows you to do, precisely, that. All of the freedoms in the world are not as endless as the huge capacity within our own heads. There you may find your most in-achievable goals, bring back the ones who died or go to places you've never been or ever could. Your mind is the ultimate multi-tasker. In the most dire circumstances or the endurance of  horrendous events, you can escape to refuge in your head. It's a human safety net and life preserver. Loneliness, the biggest creeping affliction of Man, is laved with scores and multitudes of friends and supporters we love or wish to. They come to us willingly in our thoughts and get us through times of mental pain. Prisoners and the oppressed, can free themselves in their minds and revel in the vast spaces and places they invent. Story tellers pluck the fruits to build their tales and artists render their endless colours and lines that wander enticingly in their reveries. Writers stroll in great meadows and  forests of words they need and glorious scenes that tell them places and people and plots to place on paper or screen. Musicians hear melodies as yet to be invented and create impossible scores in impossible tones and tempos. The talented achieve their heights and are recognised for their as yet invented gifts. Children become beautifully gowned princesses and handsome princes on brave steeds. The athlete wins the medal and hears the roaring cheers and encouragements of  found fame. The ugly are much desired in their fantastically beautiful and perfectly formed bodies. The old are young again, in love and loved by those they adored. The religious find their highest hopes. The poor, hungry and homeless, stroll the halls and gardens of splendid mansions and furnishings and properties. Epicureans see banquette tables spill with supreme elegance, the richest desserts, succulent meats and shining vegetables beside glowing exotic fruits. It is paradise contained. It is all free and it's now and right where you are. It's in your mind if you want it, and it's having what you don't have.