Le Dynamique Professeur

Today I was going through a friend's blog (appleaddict). In it, she poised a question I believe is very important for everyone living on the surface of the earth today - what is your dream? It is important becomes heroes in history are dreamers.  The history makers of our world are endless dreamers. That is why it is a very important question. In one of my blogs "who are you and where are you going", I shared on the fact that who we are, reflects our purpose in life; and where we are heading, talks about our visions and dreams towards becoming who we were meant to be. The significance of a dream in a man's life cannot be overemphasized. Someone said, "just as fuel is to a car, so is dream to a man." When a life is void of a dream(s), the life is soon gone. Many people walk the streets today with no goal, no dream, no ambition, no vision, some with nothing to live for. They just wander about looking for wonderlands. No wonder news headlines nowadays are filled with many different stories of suicides because people lack foresight and dreams.

I remember someone told me when he asked a 5 year old what he want to be in future; the young boy smiled and raise his voice in ecstasy "I want to become 'Superman' (the TV series hero)".  Amazing, the confidence the young boy had in himself and sees no reason why he wouldn't be able to fly, run or save the world just like the Superman' he sees on TV. I reckon the same thing applies to each and everyone of us. When we were young, we had no fear whatsoever whether we were capable of our dreams coming through or not. We knew no failure. We cared less whether Dad and Mum agrees or not. We didn't have impossibility in our dictionary. We simply had the hero sensation within us and we believed it.

What happened thereafter, as we grew older, we came across few failures along the way that took away our confidence. We began collecting different kinds of opinions from friends and families that made us believe not everything is achievable. We started moving with 'the impossibles' gang; before we knew what was happening, we had 'impossibility' inserted into our common vocabulary such that we lost the faith and courage of achieving our dreams of 'saving the world'. That's exactly how most of us lost our dreams in the pathway of life. We lost them to fear and dread. We lost them to the 'impossible' polls from friends and peers. We lost them to the unpleasant situations and circumstances that perhaps defined our grooming. We lost them to what our fathers and mothers wanted us to become instead of what we always dreamt of. We lost them to careers our societies have labelled 'star careers'. We became limited through the imitation of those we refer to as the 'celebrities of our generation'.

I once heard of a man (Asa Griggs Candler) who sat in his room in Atlanta Georgia and said "One day, I would make the whole world say 'Coke'". Look around you today, unarguably, you can tell that tevery individual, one time or the other have voiced out that world 'coke'. I once read of Larry Page and Sergey Brin (owners of Google Inc.) when Larry had that crazy dream and idea of downloading the whole World Wide Web on his desktop and there goes Google today. All you and I need is that dream that might seem initially impossible.  John F. Kennedy was once quoted to have said, "we need men who can dream of things that never were." Let your dream be your drive. Let it be your passion. Allow it to envelope you. Let it be your fuel. I assure you, sooner than you can imagine, you will get to your destination. Let your dream possess you. It's yours!

I have a dream of becoming a professor. I had it right from the age of 16 and I have stood with it eversince. I have no doubt in my heart, I will reach it. I am almost there. I just have to keep believing and never give up. If you have a dream too, I want you to beat your chest with courage and say with me "I WILL MAKE IT!"

- Le dynamique professeur

An eight year old boy and his father walked along a quiet path that leads to a village near a jungle. As they made their way around the place, the father talked to his little boy. After some minutes, the boy ran ahead of the father after noticing a pond with a cute fish inside. He was drawn by the attention of the cute-looking fish and started to tell his dad about it - "Dad, this is amazing, look at how beautiful it looks". He was so carried away by how seemingly cute the fish was and didn't notice the silence posed by his father.

When he noticed his dad was not saying anything, he looked back and was surprised seeing his father had disappeared. Immediately, he was encapsulated by a sudden mass of fear that saw him stucked where he was standing and began to yell "DAD!", "DAD!!", "DAD!!!". He was so frightened that his breath could be heard miles away. He began to stare in rage and fear of what might have happened to his Dad. All he could hear from the silent bush was the echo of his continuous clamouring. He hardly could hear anyone's foot steps or voice. He was caught up in the panic of his soul. As a young chap, there was only one thing he could resort to...

Just as he was about crying, the father appeared. The boy filled with ecstasy ran and jumped on his Dad. The father patted him in solace, then he asked his boy; "what happened?" The boy replied, "I was afraid when I didn't see you". The father proceeded to ask; "so, what did you do?" "I started shouting, yelling and exclaiming your name", answered the boy. "And what did you get out of that?"... "nothing, safe the echo that came from the bush", the boy replied. The father remarked, "crying is never a solution to anything but a try might be". Let me ask you my reader, Why Cry when you can Try?

The easiest thing to do is to sit and cry in the face of fear or failure. Many even failed to try at the ordinary sign and sights of failure. They result into crying, making a pity party of themselves. Some even go to the extent of giving up completely, believing there is no way out and there can never be. What we do when challenges stare right in our face matter in our little sojourn on this planet. Vince Lombardi has this to say, "in great attempts, it is glorious even to fail". Don't stop attempting. Edmund Cooke also said, "its nothing against you to fall down flat, but to lie there - that's a disgrace". My question to you via this post is, 'have you given up? Are you lying down there crying? Have you resort to making a pity party of yourself that you are no longer moving forward?

"Most people lived and died with their music still unplayed; they never dare to try" - Mary Kay Ash

- I once heard about a man who came to Singapore with a single brief case and now owns one of the most admirable building on the popular Orchard Road (Takashimaya); what if he had given up?

- I once heard of a man who failed, failed and failed again and later became the president of the United States of America (Abraham Lincoln); what if he had resorted to pity partying. How many times have you failed just yet?

- I also once heard the story of a man whose invention of the telephone was referred to as a 'toy' by one of its potential marketers - here we are today, the telephone technology cannot be avoided as a means of communications its almost the bed rock of very communications technology we have today (Alexander Graham Bell); what if he didn't try again?

- I know, as much as you know, of a man who fought so much for freedom and was thrown into prison for 27 years for his human right activities but later became the president and most respected person in that same country (Nelson Mandela); what if he gave up and resorted to making himself a pity party?

I have come to discover that life does not recognize men that give up easily. I have come to find out that men who often resort to crying rather than trying, are mere cowards that will end up remaining where they are - in a party of the pitiful!

Dear reader, its time to stand up. Its time to arise and try. Its high time you gave up crying for trying. The season of pity partying is over. If you don't try, you cannot thrive. Its never a sin to try and fail but don't you ever fail to try. I love this quote by Fred Smith "The fear of failure must never be a reason not to try". Get at that thing! Get back again to giving it a try! No time for crying; TRY one more time!

See you at the top.

(c) Le Dynamique Professeur