Someone told me yesterday that he never have any dream. Even as a child he never knew how to answer a simple question like “What do you want to be when you grow up?”. He also can’t get the concept of following your passion because he doesn’t even know what is his passion. It stunned me.
While in the opposite side, I’m a hardcore dreamer. I have lots of BIG DREAMS, such as the dream of building a school for unfortunate children, the dream of becoming a professional photographer, the dream of having a tea place where people can get off from their busy day for a while and have a moment of solitude and peace, the dream of traveling all around the world, diving, taking pictures and having my own photo exhibition, the dream of having a family with children and a dog and maybe then traveling with my kids to let them see the beauty of their homeland, etc.
That’s A LOT right? YEP.
That’s why I always put this on my bio : just a little girl at heart with dreams bigger than the world.
I have people telling me that my dreams are TOO MUCH, TOO BIG and TOO IMPOSSIBLE. Well, don’t you think it’s kinda cool to challenge yourself to do all those stuffs and prove them wrong? *smile*
Dreams give people reason to live, dreams helping people to make plans and getting through life. Dreams can be the reason why people are not giving up because they believe in the future, in the coming things, in making the dreams come true. Dreams help people to have a hope for tomorrow, to set the priority and to prepare them for what’s coming in the future. Dreams give you excitement, something to look forward to and joy in trying to make it come true. Dreams teach you how to handle disappointments, how to act when things don’t go the way you want them to, how to keep pushing through and getting up everytime life knocks you down.
I remember a verse in the Bible said, “where there is no vision, the people perish.” – dreams or vision giving people direction and setting the course of their life. when you have no direction then what kind of life would that be. Living life just like that is not enough. Living life in the now is good, but it is not enough. When you live in the now without having a vision of the future, you will only wasting your time doing something that will never produce anything and slowly, it will eventually drain your life.
It doesn’t mean that I’m against living in the present. Living in the present, in the now is also very important because you cannot go living in the future without the present. But to live the present to the fullest, you need to have a vision of the future because what you do in the present will create the future.
I am a firm beliver that everyone is here in this world to make a difference, everyone is called to live a great life not just ordinary normal life. The only problem is sometimes, we’re satisfied enough with the ordinary. We settle down too easy in a safe net just because other people seem to do that. It’s like keeping an ocean size fish in a small pond. Not quite comfortabel ain’t it? J - so let it go a bit and free the potential inside you.
If you stumble into this blog and read my post, I hope you will soon find your dream and have the courage to pursue it. Live your life to the fullest because you only get to live it once.
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