What if we dreamed?

It's not really a clear sky tonight. The moon is really only half visible through the cloud cover. It's not the perfect night for stargazing, but sometimes these things get put off or forgotten about. This isn't where I wanted to see the stars from, but often we must make do with second best, because often life takes us somewhere unexpected. As I look at life, I really can't make any sense of it. I can't see how there's a point to any of this. I can't see how we'll ever find peace in this world. I can't see the path my life is supposed to take, or where I'm supposed to find my future. But somehow, I can see all that in the stars. Not in the constellations or in the riddles of astrology, none of that means anything. But sometimes I feel like, even though I know that the stars are millions of light years away, sometimes it feels like if I jumped high enough, maybe I could grasp just one. Even if none of us ever get there, what's there to keep us going in life if we don't have our dreams. Dreams so far fetched and impossible that we are surely the only ones to ever believe in them. And what if we dreamed for peace? When I look at the stars in their stillness, in their harmony and sanctitude with one another, it doesn't show me peace in the heavens. It shows me a reflection of something we could have here. And what if we dreamed for purpose? When I look at the stars and see how some shine brighter than others, I know that those stars are not necessarily bigger or closer or more astonishing than the other stars. I somehow find the purpose in being who I am, maybe I need to question it sometimes, but why hide a star from the world? And what if we dreamed of love? What of love? I haven't the slightest comprehension of love and it seems that even the universe can't make sense of it. If one of the stars disappeared from the sky one night, I doubt anyone would even notice. I don't believe that we live in this world of fairytale plots where everyone gets their happily ever after. But if we all can't have happily ever after, can't we all just live happy, for as much time as we have? If one of the stars disappeared from the sky tonight I doubt anyone would notice. Then again, maybe someone would. After all, I can't be the only one looking at the stars.