Partly because I heard a song with this in it, partly because I’m still suffering from last night’s American Idol songwriting winner.

What happens if all your dreams come true?

All your dreams have come true, now you have nothing left to anticipate or strive towards. Audrey says “you come up with new ones,” but doesn’t that defeat the purpose?

Worse still, what if someone else makes all your dreams come true?

Not only did everything you ever wanted get presented to you, but you had nothing to do with getting it. Or, if you’re a person who truly thinks it’s a good thing for someone else to make your dreams come true, what do you do now? Wait for this person to come up with new ones for you? Come up with some more for a different person to fulfill for you? Move the goalposts and make this person fulfill any new dreams you come up with?

Without your dreams, you have no purpose. Without your dreams, you’re stuck in real life without relief. Without dreams, you’ve reached the end of a life worth living.

If all my dreams were fulfilled, it would be awful. I can only hope that I’d come up with new ones, maybe some impossible ones, before the despair killed me. Any song that says “you made all my dreams come true” sounds like a terrible thing, not a happily-ever-after ending, IMO.