Eyes Closed...Mind Open.
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Last published Tue, Jun 23, 2015
Life is hard.
You've got to work for what you want and even then sometimes you don't get it.
It's the complete opposite to the fairytales my mom told me when I was younger. She used to tell me, "Dreams are like road maps for your future...always follow yours and you will find your destiny."
I know what you are thinking, and you are right...what a load of crap.
Dreams are just collages of our desires mixed in with our imaginations.
They are creations of our subconscious to get the things out of life that we aren't getting for real.
They are full of false hopes that just manipulate our minds and emotions.
They closely resemble nightmares in the way that nightmares use our worst fears, and dreams exploit our innermost ambitions.
Most of the time when people awake from their dreams they yearn to return, but I have never been like that. I believe that it is better to face the harshness of reality instead.
That wasn't always my opinion. I used to believe full heartedly in every lie my mother told me about dreams, but I've changed a lot since then...I had to.
My old self was not strong enough to handle what life threw at us, but since then I have built a wall around myself to protect both my brother and me.
Synopsis:
Aislinn has had it hard the past seven years and it has caused her to become closed off from the rest of the world, all except for her ten year old brother Mikael.
They are each others only family.
Soon after visiting someone she had not seen in years, tragedy strikes.
Christine somehow finds herself in a place she has never seen nor heard of and it seems as if she will never be reunited with her brother again, but she can't accept that.
Her will, her heart, and her mind are put to the test as she struggles to return to her brother and escape.
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