This dream is about my husband and I reviewing a choice we made in the past, and deciding whether it was the best choice for us.

In the dream, my husband and I were driving around our neighborhood.  We were doing this deliberately, to see how everything looked and if there were any changes.  We stopped by a house we had almost bought several years ago. At the time we considered it, it needed a huge amount of work.  Neither one of us are home repair type people and so we decided against the house, even though it had huge potential.  Someone else had bought the home and made the necessary repairs.  The transformation was amazing.  The main house had a Greek/Roman façade across the front. A building in the back had been completely repaired and appeared to be a large open barn used for different activities.  There was a third building aligned with the house but at the other corner of the basketball court.  This other building/house had been added to and now consisted of two floors instead of the original one. All three buildings were connected by a large basketball court, so it had the appearance of a large, expensive compound.  Four or five young men were playing basketball quite vigorously.  All of them had dark hair and appeared Hispanic. We were both quite impressed with the quality of the work and how wonderful the whole project had turned out.  My husband looked at me and said, “We could have done that!”  I replied “Yes, but we wouldn’t have.  We are just as well off in our little house.”  He nodded in agreement because our little house is easy to take care of-very low maintenance- and quite comfortable. We knew that the choice we had made was the best choice for us. We drove on to finish our inspection of the neighborhood.

This dream is about a point in time when my husband and I made a choice as to how we wanted to live our lives.  The opportunity was there to expand our lives physically, mentally and spiritually beyond our natural inclinations. It would have been a wonderful opportunity to greatly extend ourselves and become people who more greatly serve others. At that time, we chose to stay within our personal boundaries, as we recognized the other way was a lot of hard work that we weren’t necessarily inclined to do nor perhaps even capable of doing.  Looking back at this decision, we see what we could have created and how nice it would have been.  But I remind my husband that we didn’t have the personalities for that particular path of growth.  We prefer to stay within our natural inclinations and expand those as much as we can.  And we’re happy with the decision we made.  Sometimes it is best to recognize one’s own personal limitations and work with them instead of against them.