People are always telling you to follow your dream, follow your heart. At times though, you may just feel like your dreams, your ambitions, your hopes, your aspirations, just aren’t enough. You may even give up on them and toss them aside, regarding them as if they were old, dirty laundry you never want to touch. Well, here’s the deal: don’t. Don’t give up on your dreams. Don’t give up. Don’t give in. Don’t stop believing, as Journey says. Your dreams are one of the most important things that you have in life. It’s one of the few things other than your DNA that set you apart from others. Others may claim to share it, but your dreams are truly only yours.
Never give up on your dreams. Even when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, and feel like nothing, absolutely nothing can ever go right, don’t give up on them. That’s the prime time to start thinking about them. Get out a piece of paper, grab a pen or a pencil, a marker, a piece of chalk, whatever. Then write. Write out what your dreams are. They can be as simple as wanting to make that ice-cream sundae you’ve been craving for a long time. Or wanting to see that movie that’s been talked about for over a year. Or maybe even becoming a neurologist, a lawyer, a zookeeper, anything. Give yourself reasons to follow your dreams, no matter the size.
And don’t let your academic life dictate what you do in life. You can be someone who has amazing grades, amazing SAT/ACT scores, but excels in drawing and wants to become an artist. Or you can be the opposite and have not so amazing grades, average SAT/ACT scores, but have a fascination with engineering and want to become a software engineer. What you do in the classroom, and how you do in the classroom, should not determine what you do with you life. It may determine where you go to fulfill your dreams, but wherever you go, let it be Ivy League or a state college, it’s what you make of it there. That’s all it boils down to.
Just don’t stop thinking about tomorrow…and don’t stop believing.
