Dreams and Aims
Animation by Braulio (M)
I think everyone has dreams and aims, life would be impossible without wanting something.
At very early age children might have unreal dreams, like to become one of cartoon character, to learn to fly or live under the water, to become prince or princess. Dreams change as children grow older but still, they can have something unreal or idealistic in essence.
Life and reality make corrections to most of our dreams. And by teenager age children begin to have different, more realistic dreams from what they had in childhood.
Many teenagers dream to achieve something in life, some imagine himself as a boss of a big company, the most ambitious might even dream of becoming presidents or government officials.
Some think that the main dream is to create family, have good job, have good relations with parents and friends.
But all of us dream to realize ourselves in all aspects of life. We strive to be the best in something and do everything to achieve the best results.
By the end of our life many want to occupy good place in society, it includes to have family, respect, good job, and house.
They say is that to achieve results you must have clear big aim before you. Aims and dreams are closely connected with each other. First we have far dream that becomes our aim to achieve in life. Then, we put smaller aims to reach in our hard way to big dream.
There is one saying form old times: "Every man must build a house, give birth to a son and plant a tree". I think most of aims and dreams of modern teenagers correspond to this saying. We want to have family and make the life of our family happy, and we want to leave something after us.
Sometimes dreams come into serious conflict with reality. For example, one had a beautiful dream in the childhood of becoming a traveler or a musician or a scientist. But later he understood that such dreams do not correspond with what is expected from him by family or environment. He becomes a lawyer, which is more reliable, he has highly paid job, respect but he is not happy, because he still dreams of what he can not become.
Life would be so wonderful if all our dreams could come true.
Try not to betray your blue dreams, do everything to reach them and then your life will be happy!
Arina (Russia)
Dreams are probably one of the most important aspects of a teenager’s life. Dreams are a picture of how someone imagines his or her future, and are based on role models. Sometimes dreams are hard to follow because sometimes you have to let them go in order to fulfill your loved one’s dream. If you were an astronaut like most of the children dream of, you would not be able to be with your family and enjoy those precious moments that won’t happen ever again. But even then, if you decide to have a career and find a job to be able to fulfill your family’s dream you’ll feel happy.
Every dream is possible no matter how hard it seems to achieve, if you really hold on to it and convince yourself that you can do it, you will. It won’t be easy, you’ll suffer a lot, and you’ll have to make sacrifices to achieve it, but once you’ve done it; you’ll find a great feeling of satisfaction and you will realize that all the hours, or even years of hard work finally paid of. It will be one of the greatest days of your life. So hold on to your dreams, and if you decide to give up on them, well at least do it for a reason that will make you happy. Like helping your loved ones to achieve theirs, but don’t let it because you stopped trying because you though you weren’t good enough or someone told you so. At the end what really matters is that the road you took led you to find happiness and satisfaction.
By:
Jorge Treviño(M)
Valentín Salinas(M)
