Dreaming.

People need to properly distinguish between the 'ideal' of something and the 'reality' of something. What I mean is people need to stop believing what they want to believe about their lives and face the facts. We need to stop living inside an illusion that portrays the world in a way that is appealing for us. The phrase ''heads in the sand'' comes to mind. This is the thing that stops people from progressing and changing the problems in their life, because they're stuck in their own comfortable problem-free dream world. Most of the time this is done out of fear to escape the harsh reality of this life. To ease tension. It's an escapism. An 'escape' from the harsh reality and our imagination is our refuge. It's a way of coping. It's a crutch to lean on.

But those who are dreaming are unaware that this alluring illusion is a trap. 

Once we begin to distinguish between the 'reality' and the 'ideal', we can then come up with a way on decreasing the rift between the two states. Meaning we can make our 'ideal' (the lives that we dream of having) into our reality. But for how much longer will most of us be stuck in our dreams? Until the end of our life? Until we are too old and incapable of working towards them? There's way too many dreamers and not enough people who will work towards those dreams.