Gracie Kay Close- What is Dreaming?

 In the beginning of the year we discussed the poem, “In Baghdad, Dreaming of Cairo; In Cairo, Dreaming of Baghdad”, by the poet Rumi. The poem discusses one's aspirations and the constant search for meaning in one's life. Another element of the poem is the idea that desires are right in front of us yet overlooked. I have done a lot of thinking on the poem itself. I resonate heavily with the idea that what we want the most is right in front of us, but yet so far from our mind. The most prevalent example of such I think is belief. It is within human nature to search for meaning, to search for a higher power to believe in. Speaking from personal experience, the search for something greater than myself gives me comfort in what is unknown beyond the life I have been given. In the poem, the man leaves for Cairo in a quest for a treasure of some sort. Something he longed for. Yet, upon such journey he encountered the feeling of longing for home. The dream of treasure and want was so far gone for what he desired most was home. He did not know what he truly wanted until he left it behind. God, in the poem, is a figure of guidance. God sends him away to reckon with the notion that material possessions do not compare to that feeling of home for he has gifted him such. Dreaming is nice, when kept to unconscious thought. Dreaming of such wants can be greedy and force oneself to reckon with what is actually most important in life. 

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