"I am a traveler between two worlds. First, there is my outer self -- this hectic adult life, in which appointments and obligations dominate every thought and stifle any remaining creativity I might still have." "But somewhere deeper inside of me, another place exists. It is where all the hopes, dreams and imagination of a child fled as I grew older. There, my eyes are still wide open with wonder." I'm mentally divergent, they say, Two conflicting worlds pull me each way, One bears the scars that time has made, One keeps the dreams that never fade. "For a long time, I believed these worlds were separate. But the deeper I looked, the more I understood that my inner world is like a vast sea beneath me. Its depths may be hidden, but its surface still touches everything above." "Sometimes a memory rises like a wave and changes the way I see the present. An old dream becomes a new desire, a forgotten fear shapes a choice. What lives below never stays completely hidden. It keeps breaking through the surface." I'm mentally divergent, they say, Two conflicting worlds pull me each way, One bears the scars that time has made, One keeps the dreams that never fade. "But I also know this divide cannot remain. Escaping into one world means abandoning the other, and each time I cross between them, I leave a part of myself behind. What once protected my inner child now keeps the woman I became incomplete." "But if the surface already connects them, then perhaps I do not have to choose. I can let the wonder below become part of the life above, and let experience give shape to what I still dream. When both worlds become one, the divide will disappear. And then, I finally will be whole." I'm mentally divergent, they say, Two conflicting worlds pull me each way, One bears the scars that time has made, One keeps the dreams that never fade.
