Dreams

Dreams, according to the Oxford Advance Learners Dictionary, can be defined as a series of events, images ,and feelings ,that happen in your mind while asleep: or a state of mind or situation in which things do not seems to be real. To me a dream, is just a part of our second life. something like the inactive part of our life, we only activate it, when we sleep. A place where we escape to, from all the troubles of these world, not really peaceful to say, because our nightmares still’s stain’s the place up with it’s ugly colour, making the place, a place of horror, and at the same time, our little safe abode. But if we can only channel our mindful resources right, we might be able to make the best use of our dreams. Dreams can be the highest point in our lives A place where our hopes and visions stand a better chance of surviving .A chance of been realized and exploited. Dreams are spiritually inclined, a small fraction of our dreams goes a long way in re-shaping our lives here on earth. As a necessary means to an end, dreams are necessary to life .A man who does not Dream is not living. Such a man can be considered dead only not clinically. In a dream you can do those things you can’t get to do in the real world A place where you can set your marks, and reach an impossible height of achievement .And at the same time, dreams can be seen as acting ingredients that sharpens a man’s life. Take a look at the Biblical Character of Joseph” the dreamer” a man who took his own destiny into his hands through his dreams, he ruled his entire family, he was framed ,locked up in a prison, there he encountered two of Pharaoh’s best service men, his butler and his baker, there he re-defined the two men’s life. And also saw his way up to be the Prime minister of the Egypt province. The kind of dreams you have, determine what you like would be like ,it’s like a prologue to a book, that explains what one should expect in the book, Defining it’s style and content. Great War lords like Alexzendra the Great, Adolf Hitler, Julius Caesar have had dreams that have affected their lives, positively or negatively either encouraging them to purse or abandon their campaign. Also revolutionary leaders have had their share of the illusioned world too, like of Malcolm X ,Martin Luther King Jr, Winston Churchill and the rest. The power within a dream ,should not be underestimated, because the true fact about dreams is that ,they determine how much you will be going in life .Alfred Tennyson said ”Dreams are true while they last ,and do not we live in dreams?” .This explains the luxury one enjoys in the dream world, where you can be whatever you wish to be, the President of the United States, the British Prime Minister, a drug lord. But all these are just only true while they last, because really we don’t live in dreams, it’s just a temporary illusioned world .And before you know it, you are back to the same world same position you were. Sean ,a eighteen year old boy, born and raised on the wild side of Brooklyn New-York has had it all ,from neglect as an infant, to child molestation ,to abuse from a broken family, to deprivation of the basic ingredients of livelihood .coupled with the fact that education seems not to have a place for him in her curriculum .The parents were even to poor to realise that education and good health is necessary. He moved into the street, .became a gang member and a drug peddler. Well the streets, itself has its own way of getting rid of it’s unnecessary elements, got arrested and sent off to jail .the last hope for a better tomorrow. his mom got cleaned off drugs, and reconciled with the husband ,got a better job, and suddenly things were getting better in the house. Only that he was not there to see it happen. So what he did was that, each time he wants to have his share of the new happiness at home, he sleeps and dreams of it. when asked why he sleeps so much, he said “so that I can escape and be with my family at anytime I wish to ”he even at times describes happenings at home. This at times confirms what is going on at his house. Poor Sean never made it back home, he was stabbed in the bathroom , by a rival gang member, just three days to when he will be getting released. On his dying bed at the hospital, he smiled and told his mom, that she can still have him back anytime she wants, But only In her DREAMS.