Nobody cries when a dream dies. There is no burial ceremony, no coffin, no wailing. You do not need to prepare a speech on what the dream did while it was still alive. You do not make a tombstone marking the day the dream was conceived and the day it died.
Of course, it is very difficult to actually know when a dream is born. The birth might be as silent as the sunrise. If you are not watching, you will only realize the change once it has already taken place.
I have seen people dream, dream long and hard, making sacrifices for their dreams and then giving the beautiful dreams they had, returning to reality battered and bruised.
Let me talk about the former security guard of my building Sumon for example. He wanted to become a driver. He left the job about two years ago for that. Things did not go as planned. And now he is back as a security guard once again. Waiting for the world to change for him, he now spends his time upgrading his mobile phone and putting the best new songs in it.
He tried. His dream grew and started an adventure. The boy-dream realized after a while that it was too early for the adventure.
I have seen a great many who do not want to realize their dreams because the fear of failure is too much for them. It cripples them, to the extent that they are happy only to dream about the dreams. Their dreams are kept in a small island. The child-dream is too afraid to roam around in fear of wild animals.
Look at any shy person around. They want to speak out and show their true caliber to us, but the thought of being visible mortifies them. Some of them keep working in silence until they are recognized. But others just cannot change. The dream die as a fetus, long before being born.
And then there are those, who’s dreams energize, make the status-quo crumble, make the neighbors stumble. They dream and they realize. They dream and make others dream with them. Young-dream runs full of energy changing the world around him. This young-dream will not settle for any less than what he aims for. We all have seen such dreams changing the face of the world.
These are powerful dreams that clear the way towards vision. These people with young-dreams are all over the history books. From Muhammad Al-Faatih, who conquered Constantinople at the age of 21, to Edison, who went through more than 10000 combinations of materials before finding the right one to create a light bulb. They all dreamt and did not let the young-dream die.
No matter what happens, as one writer puts it, “It is the possibility of a dream being realized that makes life interesting.” It changes the way we live, the way we see the start of a new day, the way we feel about the sleep at night.
Are you going to let your dreams die?
Of course, it is very difficult to actually know when a dream is born. The birth might be as silent as the sunrise. If you are not watching, you will only realize the change once it has already taken place.
I have seen people dream, dream long and hard, making sacrifices for their dreams and then giving the beautiful dreams they had, returning to reality battered and bruised.
Let me talk about the former security guard of my building Sumon for example. He wanted to become a driver. He left the job about two years ago for that. Things did not go as planned. And now he is back as a security guard once again. Waiting for the world to change for him, he now spends his time upgrading his mobile phone and putting the best new songs in it.
He tried. His dream grew and started an adventure. The boy-dream realized after a while that it was too early for the adventure.
I have seen a great many who do not want to realize their dreams because the fear of failure is too much for them. It cripples them, to the extent that they are happy only to dream about the dreams. Their dreams are kept in a small island. The child-dream is too afraid to roam around in fear of wild animals.
Look at any shy person around. They want to speak out and show their true caliber to us, but the thought of being visible mortifies them. Some of them keep working in silence until they are recognized. But others just cannot change. The dream die as a fetus, long before being born.
And then there are those, who’s dreams energize, make the status-quo crumble, make the neighbors stumble. They dream and they realize. They dream and make others dream with them. Young-dream runs full of energy changing the world around him. This young-dream will not settle for any less than what he aims for. We all have seen such dreams changing the face of the world.
These are powerful dreams that clear the way towards vision. These people with young-dreams are all over the history books. From Muhammad Al-Faatih, who conquered Constantinople at the age of 21, to Edison, who went through more than 10000 combinations of materials before finding the right one to create a light bulb. They all dreamt and did not let the young-dream die.
No matter what happens, as one writer puts it, “It is the possibility of a dream being realized that makes life interesting.” It changes the way we live, the way we see the start of a new day, the way we feel about the sleep at night.
Are you going to let your dreams die?