Dare to dream, a theme that creates a dilemma for me. I am a realistic person, who does not chase big dreams and hardly does self-reflection, like Christie.

It is a form of recognition, which makes me joyful.

Unlike Christie, I am not very impulsive and spontaneously do things that I want. That takes much longer for me. Every person is different, as it turns out.

When our children were small, we moved from Germany to the Netherlands. During that time I often suffer from a nightmare. It was always the same dream. I always woke up at the same time. Because the Netherlands is a land of water, you have many roads here and water right next to it. Sometimes with a distance of only a few meters.

In my dream, I ended up in the water with my car with three children in the back seat. I had to choose who I took upstairs. That was not the do, you can’t make a choice between your children. At that moment I always woke up sweating and panicking with a bad feeling.

Fortunately, the nightmares stopped after a while.

In my quilt, I dream of a world that will never exist. It is therefore a pipe dream.

I realize that a world without wildfires, floods and pollution will never exist. That one day there will be peace on earth or that we will all have a long and happy life without disease. That remains a utopia.

A few more nights of sleep and we will know what your and my dream is.

I’m looking forward to it.