Dreams.

As children, people were more keen on exploring the ideas of different dreams and there was an endless amount of possibilities in existence. Though we could see so little, the world was wider because we were ignorant of the basic things that hinder us from our true potential. What changed in the span of a few years? Whence comest thy source of change? For what purpose do we continue to strive as individual beings being swept away by the confines that define our society?

Sometimes I often wonder about the true purpose of life, but neigh, I am not here to delve into such matters. I am more selfish than that. I would not want to waste time on the recurring discussion of the true purpose of life. When the children from the story "School Days with a Pig," dared to ask the question of the purpose of one's life as compared to the purpose of a pig's life, we find ourselves questioning the basis of the inquiry. Though we laugh at the idea of a few kids raising a pig and sympathizing with the pig as if it were a person, deep down we are aware that such a notion of existence of pigs is no different from the question of our own existence. So as you can see, this discussion is not one that can easily be answered in any length of words. In fact, I believe it can never be answered in words. Some can try to take a tip of the iceberg, but no amount of sense can actually capture the whole essence of the purpose of life.

So then the question for the purpose of this post comes up and I'd have to point to the title to put it in simpler words. Now one might ask, which dream could this be? But in all honesty, does it even matter which one?

The dreams we experience in our subconscious when our body is asleep is also part of the dreams our existence yearns for. In one way or another, which cannot be totally interpreted as it is difficult to unlock the secret to our subconscious, those dreams we see when we sleep are part of the realities we so desire. But since the details in our desired realities are too many to count, our dreams become a twisted mesh of situations and events that rarely anyone ever remembers. The unfortunate thing is that as it is forgotten much faster than we can claim to interpret it, we do not learn from the yearnings of our subconscious. And for this reason, we can only fully rely on the formulation of our own conscious dream, which we put much effort into accomplishing.

The dreams we had when we were little were more adventurous and limitless. These qualities are somehow similar to the dreams we previously mentioned, but as we grow older, many realizations sink in and our own helplessness hinder us from achieving our full potential. But then the real question is now... what is our full potential? What dreams do we aspire to have? I don't believe dreams are constant things and that as we go our way through life they'll eventually evolve into the greater realizations that we should aspire to. Even with that thinking, how do we propel forward not knowing where to go and where it'll lead us? Only self-confidence or faith would allow us to do such things without reservations. And I only have the latter to keep me pegged onto the journey we call life. It is through my firm belief that I was created to fulfill a dream that will influence others to find their own, which is too vague to even call a dream. But even dreams can start out vaguely and the shorter goals will become those small details that we need to reassure us that we are walking on the path we have chosen as our dream. As the girl in the movie "The Signs of Love," had said in her interview, the fulfillment of dreams does not happen with just one stroke. It is a continuous process of reaching for that dream. And though the interviewer mentioned that it is difficult to do that, she simply stated that the struggle for the dream and the hard work and lessons put into that dream are the things that make life interesting. My dream... in this life... is simple yet complex, as everything about me always is... I wish to travel the world, to take in all that I can in improving people's lives through connections, through education and through their lifestyle. And this line of work may or may not be appreciated, but hopefully it can make others see light into the preservation of their own life and also in their safety as they go about their daily routines.

But how do we begin to achieve these things? Would we even last? As a person whose confidence level was put out before anything good could have come out of it, how can I even hope to imagine the dream that I wish to fulfill?