The star defeats the serpent

I had a dream last night that I had a snake for a pet. He was hungry and got loose from his dwellings, in search of food. He came across my body and slithered and bit me. His bite did not sting, but his venom did. It did not kill me however.

Right before he died, the snake tried in vain to squeeze the life out of me. He failed utterly, crumpled up and died a horrible death.

When I awoke from my dream state, all I could think was how nasty and icky the snake felt around my body. Even as I type this, I can still feel it's dry as bone scales covering me and trying to squeeze for dear life.

I always did focus on the wrong things. Instead of finding strength in the fact that his venom did not harm me, or that his bite alone did not hurt me, or even that after he tried his very last attempt at trying to take me down by squeezing me, I still survived and he died, all I could think as I awoke from this dream was, "Ugh, that felt so icky!"

I am realizing as I type this that both dreams and life are not about how you feel, but how you react to what is going on. What do you hold in higher esteem, the stimuli that was presented to you or how YOU reacted TO the stimuli?

What part of your dreams are you focusing on? Are you even dreaming anymore? That's an even more important question.