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Electrical Theologist
Dreaming Inside the Dream
Chasing What Was Never Meant to Be Caught
Apr 18, 2026
Do we chase what was never meant to be caught? Are their gatekeepers keeping you from living you best life? Are we just manifesting a mirage?
How many people truly live their dreams?Not the curated version, not the polished illusion dressed up for screens and applause — but the raw, breathing, inconvenient truth of a dream lived fully, imperfectly, honestly. How many of us even know what that dream is? And if we don’t, then what exactly are we chasing when we say we are “working toward it”?
Most people I have met — and I mean truly met, beyond the surface-level exchanges — do not know what their dream life would even look like. They are buried. Not just in financial debt, though that alone is enough to suffocate a lifetime, but in emotional debt, psychological debt, inherited expectations, imagined limitations — debts of the mind and spirit that accrue interest in silence.
We were sold something early on. A quiet contract. Work hard enough, long enough, and the dream will arrive. So we worked. Overtime. Doubles. Holidays surrendered. We invested, we sacrificed, we endured heartbreak, burnout, the slow erosion…
