This webcomic has been going around tumblr (and probably other places I don't frequent), and I think it has a pretty good message. One of my friends quite vocally disagreed, so I want to talk about dreaming and doing a bit more extensively.
First of all, we have to define out terms. Dreaming and doing are two different things, and dreamers and doers are two more different things. In this context, at least, dreaming is the act of thinking about what you would like to accomplish, and doing is act of making it happen. A dreamer is someone who spends more time or effort dreaming than doing; a doer, the reverse.
There's nothing wrong with dreaming. No, more than that. You should dream. Before you can lay down any concrete goals, you need abstract notions of what you want to do. In fact, I'd venture that a great deal of our Gen Y angst could be avoided if we were given the option to really look before we leap.
But dreaming is not an end in itself. It's not even a means to an end. If you want to achieve your dreams, you're going to have to invest a lot of doing in them.
(Well, let me qualify that. If you're happy to imagine what you could be doing, instead of actually doing it, then dreaming is an end in itself. I wonder how many people will admit to that being satisfactory?)
Dreaming has a role to play in achieving those dreams. You need a reminder of what you're working towards, and you need to figure out just what that is. But you also need to sit down and work.
