Everyone wants to achieve some sort of dream, and this dream can be associated with many different things. The car of your dreams, the house of your dreams, the spouse of your dreams, the career of your dreams, the degree of your dreams. I think you get the gist, dreams, the thought of achieving a dream is very alluring. I think at difficult times the images of your dreams can keep you going. Dreams. A 6 letter word yet it can open up so many scopes of our imagination…
Somewhere, somehow deep inside us we all have dreams. Whether we choose to admit them or not, whether we verbalise them and make them come to life, or shove them to the corner of our mind, we still have them. And I say dreams-not dream-because we never truly just chase one thing. We chase many different things in succession. And a dream can change. And I can tell you that with assurance because within a space of 3 years I’ve had 4 different dreams that I wanted to chase, career wise. What we don’t realise when we’re younger is that nothing is really ever too late, so what if you follow your heart thinking you’re doing the right thing for you, and then you find out too late that actually that’s not what you want to do. Only to find that the object of your affection is something that you never really expected, something that you perhaps might’ve not realised even exists. But that’s just it isn’t it? Achieving your dream is such a sweet thing and that’s not just because of the destination that you got to, but because of the experiences that you had in your journey and the boundaries and barriers that you overcame in your pursuit. I believe that, that’s what makes you really happy. It’s the hardships that we overcome that make the good days better, and knowing that there is a light at the end of this long dark tunnel; make the darker days bearable.
Which is why, in my opinion, success and chasing your dreams come in hand. Because surely by achieving your dreams you have simultaneously achieved success. But your dreams could change, that doesn’t mean you're a failure though. Picture a dream as a bubble, you know, the ones that you blow. They’re so fragile, so breakable and are influenced by external sources. I say this because the external sources are the experiences that we have and things around us that we see. Which help us decide if that’s what we want. Lately what I wanted to do was to become a clinical biochemist, pretty big shot role, mixes lab work with patients so it seemed like the best of both worlds for me. Until I saw a day in a life of a biochemist. Which wasn’t exactly my cup of tea. I then did another placement in a school science lab, which was really cool. I loved every minute I worked there, and even though it was all hands on, it wasn’t exactly what I was looking for. My bubble has been moving around a lot more times than I want it to be. But I think, no I know, that if I wasn’t a confused biochemist, I would probably be more narrow minded. Now I try to explore as many areas as I can in case sometime later in the future-near future- I know what I’ll be.
Life is a canvass, paint it in different colours. Dreams don’t work unless you do, but if you’ve done all that you can to make something happen and it doesn’t. Then it was never meant to be, you haven’t failed.
And so what if you don’t have the career of your dreams at 21 or 23 or whenever it is that you graduate? It’s not the end of the world. You have your whole life to achieve it, you have your whole life to be great.
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