Building Blocks

 

                       Dreams can be very powerful. One morning you wake up from an inspirational dream which can easily motivate you to accomplish goals you have set for yourself to achieve. On the other hand, your dream can be a complete nightmare which can allow you to conquer whatever struggles you may be facing in your daily life. Anyone can dream of having a happier and brighter future, but these privileged things happen to people who strive to work extra hard to get there.
                        In the Invisible City, Zobeide, the foundation is described as men of various nations having the exact dream of a wondrous woman in the night running through an unknown city. They all end up losing her and as a result, the men are inspired to build a city identical to the one in the dream, except they designed it differently to make it harder for their dream woman to escape. The woman in their dream represents all the hope, happiness and financial pleasure that all these working men from different nations hope to gain from life. In order for their dream to become a reality, they do all they can in hopes for this extraordinary woman to return and never escape again.
                        Unfortunately, this mystery woman never makes it back to the city leaving the men to continue on with their working lives and later forgetting the woman had ever existed in their minds. After reading Zobeide, the message is quite clear that no matter how hard you work for something, nothing privileged is ever guaranteed. You can only hope for situations to get better and ultimately life becoming easier for the respectable people who work for it every single day. Regardless if dreams come true or not for the working class, they will continue to work, push through and carry on into the next day of the same routine just like the men in the city of Zobiede.