The Power of Dreams

      Of course, all of you remember the first few words of Katerina’s monologue from the play “The Storm” by A. Ostrovsky: “Why people don’t fly?.. I say, why people don’t fly as birds?” And really, it is not so long ago people didn’t know to fly. They didn’t have airplanes. They couldn’t take a tour around the Earth as it is possible today. Well, they even didn’t have trains and subways. But what they always had – they had dreams. And there always appeared some crazy visionary who tried to embody these dreams into reality.
 
Dream is a beginning of everything in our life. All great things in the world start with a dream.

Can you imagine today your everyday life without using telephone or Internet? And how it is possible to go bed without checking your page in Facebook or in inKontact?

But all these things which are so usual for us today are someone’s yesterday dreams.
So you understand that the dream has a real power.
 
The popular Hollywood actress Penelope Cruse told in one of her interview: “I dreamed my fate in my childhood. All what I have today, I have because I know to dream.”

A few months ago I visited the exhibition of Rabindranath Tagore. I was impressed by his very special paintings. Do you know that he began painting only at the age of 63?

Barack Obama – the 44th President of the United States of America – is the first Afro-American selected to this post. Could anyone even think about this possibility something like 60 years ago?

A frail man called Gandhi, clad only in loin cloth, became a driving force in India that shook the might of British Empire.

A nun started a small order with twelve others that grew into “Missionary of Charity”, Mother Teresa and her order has helped more number of people across globe than many put together has done in history of mankind.
 
There are only a few examples of great people. There are numerous super achievers in this world who seemingly never had a chance, but still made it.
They have one thing in common – they are Dreamers.
 
But do you know many people around you following their dreams? Have you met a lot of those who after age of forty at least have some dreams?
What is the problem? Why man stops dreaming?
 
As children we have vivid imagination and fantasies. We do not know what is possible and what is not. We just imagine.
But as we grow old, we face the harsh realities of life. We come to know about the limitations of our circumstances. We start knowing why something is impossible. And what is the first thing we do? We bury our dreams.
 
Then, once been disappointed in love we afraid to fall in love again. Once been rejected we afraid to initiate, to express ourselves, to share our ideas and creativity.
We afraid to fail, we afraid to fall… We give up.

And only few of us achieve, not because they never fall but because they always stand up and continue their ways believing in their dreams. Fueled with the power of dream, they take risks, face challenges, and rise above their circumstances.
 
Next time, before thinking of giving up remember the following: Walt Disney was discharged of work for lack of ideas; Mendeleyev had low marks in Chemistry; Einshtein could not talk until the age of four, and his teacher characterized him as a mentally backward.
 
Let’s dream our lives. Let’s live our dreams. Let’s make our lives special and useful. Let’s live so that in the end of the way no one could say of us: “Who never lived, will never die.”


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