Dream, when you’re feeling blue. Dream, that’s the thing to do. Just watch the smoke rings rise in the air. You’ll find your share of memories there. So Dream when the day is through. Dream, and they might come true. Things never are as bad as they seem. So dream, dream, dream …..JOHNNY MERCER (1944)
Dream ! wow …. We often asked little kids what is you dream ? What you want to be when you grow up. Surely you’ll get an immediate answer, I want to be a Doctor, Lawyer, Engineer, Business Owner and so on. But, have you ever recently asked to yourself what is your dream ? Do you have a dream ? Or are you forgotten what was your dream as you go through your busy daily schedule ? Or do you have a stack of memories in the past that exceed you dream ?
Imagination is more important than knowledge. – Albert Einstein
Dream make you look forward not back. Let us measure ourselves by looking at this point of view, you are in trouble when you tell me how good you are in the past. Yes you don’t want to forget your achievement and I’m glad, but that was then and this is now. When memories exceed dreams, the end is near. The bottom line is are you willing to abandon what made it successful and start fresh.
Of course there were bad memories that we had gone through that create fear and paranoia. You got cheated and manipulated by your trusted partner. But there is a fine line between precaution and paranoia, oftentimes we crossed it by shutting the door to an opportunity because of bad experience. We need more dreams, naivete and optimism to shed those fear. It is the one that help keep the world spinning on its axis.
Analyst have always tended to measure a society by classical economic and social statistics: its deficit-to-GDP ratio, or its unemployment rate, or the literacy among its adult women. Malaysia under Najib’s Administration had introduced the Key Performance Indicator (KPI) on government and corporate sector. Such statistics are important and revealing. But there is another statistic, much harder to measure, that I think is even more important and revealing. Does your society have more memories that dream or more dreams than memories ?
In societies that have more memories that dreams, too many people spending too many day looking backward. If we stop our mind to create “dream factory”, we will make the world not only a darker place but also a poorer place. So let’s start focus to create more dreams rather than cling to the past memories, imagining a better future and acting on that.
My dream is to work on the conservation project but, I know the Conservation without money is only Conversation ! I believe this dream make me work harder to contribute the money I earned for the cause of it. Hmm..... Where did I put the Dream Catcher earrings, I need to wear it to catch more dream and start acting on it !
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