Happier and Younger by Pursuit of Your Dream
Jessica Huang
Do you have a dream or many dreams? Compare to now and while you were younger, do you feel you dream less now than then????? You are very lucky if you still dream much as you were while younger. Or you have found to stop picturing your own fantasy? I found younger people dream more then old people, do you agree? Take my kid for example, one minutes he tells me he wants to be a fire-fighter, then the next minutes he might come up with seriously face saying I want to be an astronaut. Kids are practically making dreams every day or even every minute. We may look old as we are aging and that¡¦s something we have limit to control with, but how young at our heart is something surely we can control. Dreaming is a way to keep young at heart.
When I was a fresh-faced first year at college, I had a lot of dreams and aspirations. My number one goal then was to find a boyfriend¡K Bear in mind, though, that this was after 3 excruciating years of going to an all girl¡¦s high school, the only male contact I had there was teachers and fathers. Being interest to the opposite sex was the major interest that appealed to me as I can recall. I remember one of the crazy things during my high school class was ¡V always applauded out loud whenever there was a priest passed by, we applauded because our sexy legs are exposed to male priest.
Now that I am married and have two kids, I found most of my dreams are about my kids, my husband and works! No dream for my own interests! I shared this finding with my friends and they told me that was because when I were young I pursuit dream single-minded and make it come true and when married the dream for ¡§Myself¡¨ just stay in my head not in my hands. My hands are full with family. Frankly, I felt kind of guilty to have my own dreams, not to mention to make them come true. I don¡¦t know any one of you sitting here can tell me if you have any dream just only for yourself¡KWell maybe to improve English is one of your dream. Then congratulations! You have come to the right place¡Kbut wait a minute¡K. How many dream do you have for yourself?
My friend suggested me to get a small note book and write down all of my dreams, I call that ¡§Dream book¡¨. Whenever I had a dream of myself, I wrote it down¡K. I have been writing for about a month now and amazed to find out there are almost 15 dreams in my list that I want them to come true. I can¡¦t tell you how to make your dreams come true, but I do know that a good start is to know exactly what those dreams are. I discovered that I had a real love and passion for music, something that had gotten buried underneath and without being notice. I have talked to some of my friends and they all have the same discovery about themselves by writing down what they want. Between my friends and me, the common was that one thing that keeps us going, that makes us feel happy whenever we do it, that we know we can shine in our own way.
Think up one thing (everyone has one, everyone) that you absolutely love doing, no matter how ridiculous that is, and see if you can do it on a regular basis. Being able to carve little pockets of happiness in a crazy world is the best that you can do to keep going when things get really tough. The ability to dream is in all of us. What makes the real difference, what separates the riches from dullness in life?
Anyone can talk of sailing a yacht around the world, cycling across the whole country or becoming a world-class chef. But the person who actually has the courage to take the steps necessary to get there is the one with the true genius. Whatever works best for you ¡V writing down the steps, keeping a journal, talking to your friends¡K. do it. Do whatever is necessary to make your dream come true. It is the closest we can come towards beauty and true happiness.
Life is full of ups and downs. Don¡¦t let the trivial things take away your ability to dream. There are always heaps of things we can do to make ourselves feel even happier. ¡§I dream therefore I become¡¨, Try to write down your dream from today then you will be whatever you want to become.