Dream accomplishment has often become an unsuccessful struggle for many dreamers, particularly youngsters. This perplexity begins at a tender age when a person is exposed to a world of opportunities that require knowledge and physical and material support to fulfil them. What can you do without a dream?
Of course, you can do marvellous things successfully and even receive appreciation rewards; if this line of magic is not your dream, we call it success in your career or something you are doing. Strategies, patience, and plans are the only catalysts for fabricating dreams or success.
Whether it is a career of your dreams, a career out of your dreams or something else you do to drive your life, strategies, patience and plans must play a great role in achieving it. A dream is the ‘wish’ or ‘hope’ that a person must achieve in a given time or life. A dream makes a person happy.
A dream can be a career, idea, or imaginary thought a person wishes to achieve. A dream deteriorates and vanishes when strategies and plans are separated from patience.
Poverty
Poverty hinders development and diminishes the opportunity to achieve dreams. If you dream of being a lawyer, doctor, businessman, president, or religious leader in Harlem, a city of poverty, your dream is like the wind. Poverty creates a narrow passage for dreamers. This obstacle stimulates a change of focus from making a dream come true to a success-harming version. Being born poor is not a guarantee of dying poor.
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Changing a fate is a complicated journey that implies multiple methods to break the chain of poor historical background. If being a gardener can bring bread to the table, it is a better way than trying to pursue a dream that brings nothing but pain in the wounded scars. Some people become billionaires from poor families because success can be chased and achieved in different ways apart from a dream a person holds.
When poverty burns a dream into ashes, a person necessarily looks for other, best, and most fruitful ways to link with success. Now, it is not a wish or hope but a necessity to chase success in life, a necessity to ensure a person or family is living a comfortable life.
Parental Career Inheritance
“I am a good doctor; I want my son to be the best doctor.” “My son, what you are doing can never make you a billionaire but the poorest kind in this world. I can never accept that you are going to be a lawyer. You see, I am a successful lawyer.”
Here are some statements, commands, and influential words that most parents or guardians highlight to ensure that their children are successful in terms of financial and material possessions, regardless of what dreams children may have in their minds.
Some parents hope to see their children walk along the same path they passed during their missions of struggle for a good life. If the path is worthwhile, it becomes the dream they want to invest in their children, an idol like something.
It is difficult to encourage a parent or guardian to accept that there is also a good life in a person’s wishes (dreams) apart from doing the same thing (career) that gave them success. For this reason, dreams become unfulfilled, abandoned, and finally fade away from dreamers.
Peer Pressure
When parents provide minimal or no guidance in nurturing children’s wishes and hopes, it is a serious trauma. People around us recognise a dream through what we do and the potential that we deliver. We all have dreams before others; in the first place, when there is no support from our superiors, no one to advise, no one to tell us what our dreams are, it is easier to be distracted from the right path where your wishes lie.
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Dreams are not like shoes or clothes that we can share with our friends whenever it suits us; they are the oxygen that survives in a person who owns them. Naturally, friends may have the same dream, but it is not pleasureful or engineered by peer influences. People abandon their dreams and willingly join their peers’ dreams without measuring how deeply their future is jeopardised.
Living Someone’s Dreams
Pursuing a dream is not the same as pursuing a successful dream. It is a struggle to fulfil the purpose of life (wishes or hopes) a person is determined to achieve. Success looks for wealth, respect, or fame. When it comes true, it is an achievement because a dreamer has found all the elements of success.
If a person is confused between two terms (dream and success), choosing which path to take becomes a challenge. Theoretically, dreams are internally motivated, and success is externally motivated. When a dreamer confuses the terms, success becomes the dream, and a person starts to live the dream of others instead of his or her own by thinking that a dream is success.
There are successful people in different sectors, like footballers, musicians, and businessmen. Without a thorough review, someone may answer that there is an easy life. There is an easy life behind struggles, failures, and exclusion (dream).
A dream makes a person happy. Regardless of how difficult it is to harvest its fruits, there is always hope. If what you are doing does not make you happy but pay your bills, it is a success, not a dream.
Sometimes, a dream is realized after a fall and rise. It can be in the adolescence, puberty, or adulthood stages of human development. A thirst for success (money) makes a person impassive and impatient, wild like a person. A dream is the father of patience and wisdom. Never give up on making your dream come true; that is your central purpose in this world.
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