Thursday, October 11, 2007
In my own imagination 10:29 AM.
Standing among 1000 students in the hall, i began contemplating each one's ambitions and dreams. Every single soul in this gigantic room hold yearns of being somebody influencial in society, and aims to achieve remarkable goals in life. These goals and ambitions range from being a doctor who cure the most detrimental illnesses, to being an entreprenuer who strives up high and bring the country's economy to greater heights. Thus, this creates competitiveness among everyone, and emulation is common.
However, there are differences between ambition and dreams. An ambition is achievable through pragmatic sacrifices like hard work and dedication. Most of the time, pains will come in as part of our steps to attain what we want, and fulfill our ambition. Thus, when factors fall out of the perimeters of hard work and dedication is needed to attain a certain goal, that goal becomes a dream.
Dreams are unrealistic and idealistic. Many people barricade themselves too deeply in dreams that they cannot accept what is going on in society. A person dreams also because he or she so badly wants to become like somebody else, and thus contemplate illogically on how to transform himself into their idol. This is commonly seen among teens who go crazy over idolising their favourite boy bands. They admire the performers on stage and feel the urge to do the same. Thus, there're some teenagers who dreams of being a popular celebrity and thus, give up on their studies and pursue their dreams by joining Singing competitions, hoping that they'll be discovered by a media company and brought to fame without much hard work. Thus, having a dream to come true is much based on none other than mere luck.
Other reasons why people succumb to dreams is because of laziness. Taking the dream of stardom as an example, unmindful teenagers simply feel that it is arduous to achieve good grades in school and think that being a star is simple because the amount of revenue earned comes by half the conviction but twice the finesse. They have the impression that stars will just have to articulate a couple of songs and thus, able to earn the money from tickets and royalties of their song albums.
Relating this to our lives, we are aware of what we want in life and what to strive for. But, have we catogorised them and see if they are idealistic dreams or realistic ambition. If our goals are achievable through pragmatic hard work and dedication, then most probably we will do our best to achieve it. But, if anyone realises that he holds onto a dream, he has got to be very sure that lady luck is always helping him if not, it is time to wake up, stop dreaming and get started on practical goals.
Join ME in my imagination. |
