It’s Okay to Dream, It’s Okay to Travel in Rockets

Ray Bradbury has transcended and inspired generations of readers to dream, because it’s okay to dream, it’s okay to travel in rockets. Because it’s okay to go beyond, it’s okay to think and create.

This writer has made it possible to penetrate the goals of filmmakers focused on science fiction, and the result is that we can see films like Star Wars, Jurassic Park, among others.

But I didn’t come to talk about “recent” science fiction films—compared to the years Ray Bradbury spent writing—but rather how these dreams become reality through the simple act of dreaming.

Believing that everything is possible regardless of adversity and even less what others think.

This is how one of his stories unfolds for this occasion: The Rocket, written by Bradbury, and the sensations it produced in me. Though it seems impossible, opportunities sometimes come one in a million—how imagination can generate that power to fulfill the dream of visiting Mars, Jupiter, and Venus.

Dreaming also requires metaphors. No matter the adversities that arise in life, the primary premise is always to follow the dream, even though occasionally people comment: Only the rich have dreams and rockets!

Let’s read something about how metaphors become reality.

But is it possible that love for one’s children could allow someone to take his three kids into space on the rich people’s rockets with only $2,000 saved—in his entire life?

This man’s children are aware their parents don’t have money to pay for this rocket trip, but as I mentioned, this time is different. Because Bodoni, father of these boys, makes the dream possible and shows them space in just one week, fulfilling their dream.

Now, it’s possible it happened like in Doré’s illustration of Don Quixote, which suggested the knight-errant never left his library, that all his adventures occurred there, among his books and letters.

I say goodbye with a fragment of this journey in an old but illusion-filled rocket where, for once, dreams come true.

Oh, don’t let anything destroy this illusion during the next six days. Make space come and go, and let red Mars rise over the rocket, and also the moons of Mars, and prevent the color films from failing…

Fragment from The Rocket by Ray Bradbury