Memories...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
ON DREAMSFrom Mon night around 10 pm onwards, I prepared for my Study of War presentation all the way till Tues afternoon. I only slept 1 hour from 6 to 7 am. And from 7 am I continued to pia until bout 1245 afternoon, after which I rushed down to sch immediately for the seminar class without lunch. The class lasted from 2 to 5pm, where I finally delivered my presentation, and I was quite happy it went smoothly despite my lack of sleep. =)
Havent slept much the past week as well, only bout 4, 5 hours per dae? I guess the fatigue set in, such that I slept yest night all e way from bout 9 pm till this morning 9 am haha. But i must say it was really a good sleep, and made me so much more refreshed and relaxed (at least for now heh).
I had a very sweet dream, where I dreamt that I owed a kitten, pretty much like the one in the pic. It was following me all around, and I had lotsa fun with it. But dunno why in e end, I had to pass it to Lion King (mayb coz he s e pussy king wahhaha)
Anyway, I think that there are lotsa people out there in this world who somehow or rather, either consciously or sub-consciously, and even within your own friends, likes to put down your dreams in life.
Eg. Let say you tell people that your dream is to work in the zoo. Some people straightaway jump up and say things like: "huh, why u wanna work in the zoo?", "the pay there good meh?", "you study so hard then go to work in the zoo for what?", "are you SURE?", "eh, i heard the promotion aspects there very low wan leh", "aiyoh, dun waste yr time la", "huh, gotta clear the animals' shit or not? You like these kind of things meh?", "dun mind me saying, but i dun think e job is cut out for you", or "eh dun la, come join me in the banking industry instead" etc etc.
It happens all the time. And the greatest irony is that the very same people who questioned or doubted you, often are not sure what they want themselves when you turn around and ask them, "Well, I told you my dream is to work in the zoo, what bout yours?"
At the end of the day, we should live our lives and dreams how we want it to be, not live out our parents’, nor our friends’.
I have read before that one of the reasons why others subconsciously try to put you down when you speak with confidence and bliss about your dreams, is because it makes them relatively insecure, esp when they dunno or dun have dreams themselves.
Without dreams, you ll never fulfill your self-actualization in life.
So, always dare to dream, no matter what others say. =)
