At the early stage of our lives, we all had plans about our future and we fantasized about how our lives would turn out. We had specifications of our kinds of women, we had dreams of where we would be working, we had dreams of the kind of life we would be living, we had dreams of who we wanted to be but it is so sad and disheartening that now when we look back and remember those dreams, majority of us feel disappointed and depressed because we have turned out to be the opposite of all we ever dreamed of. Sometimes I would question myself”why should we keep dreaming?” because I still cannot understand whether it is life that switched up on us or it was maturity that set in or probably it is high time we stopped dreaming. Adults that dream in this part of the world are few not because of the fact that we all have lost the ability to dream but because happenings around us constantly remind us that we are wasting our time if we don’t wake up and face reality. It is good to dream and at least create a picture of who you want to become in your heart so you can work towards it, I am not disputing that fact but I am just wondering why majority don’t get what they dreamed of and sometimes worked hard for.
These days, you see a graduate hawking, you see young men and women of our time in schools not because they have the passion for teaching but because they need money, you see young boys today telling you education is no more the key, they do not even want to go to school anymore because they are not blind/ deaf, the educated ones cannot talk where they are talking except they want to disgrace and embarrass themselves. Let us ask ourselves what changed?
Let’s take a look at a young, intelligent, sharp, promising and vibrant boy who never had the intension of going to the type of university he went to, who now feels like he is the only one that is not successful yet among his peers, a guy who now feels all he knows how to do is to be happy for the successful ones around him but they have never for once been happy for him (when there is nothing to celebrate), a guy who used to be the cynosure but now is as irrelevant as whatever comes to your mind, someone who has been reduced to nothing, made jest of by every single person he calls friend, someone who used to be so bold now intimidated by the ones he used to intimidate and all that. Tell me, did his dreams change? What happened to him? It’s not his time yet right? Is it life that played its role? Did he miss it somewhere? What happened to this boy’s dreams of becoming the kind of person he wants to become? I also know of a guy, he is a pharmacist and he has always dreamt of him getting married to and having children with a legal practitioner but later ended up with a teacher/small scale baker. This is a guy who doesn’t like teachers or small scale entrepreneurs, he never liked them at all right from his youth up till date but this is something he has to deal with now for the rest of his life.. Now let me ask you, what happened to his dream girl? Did he not meet up with the standard? Is it real life that dawned on him? Is it God’s doing? Why did he end up with the kind of person he never dreamt of? Did he stop dreaming? His dream girl never came or he missed her?
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