Dream, the Teacher: A Dream is Needed, Even If It’s Not Meant to Come True

Dreams - you will say - are wonderful. A dream makes our life more interesting, and it doesn't matter how achievable it is.

Here's what I think:
A dream fills life with meaning. If you're heading towards a dream, you get out of bed in the morning less beaten than if you didn't have one... but that's not certain. These are just my memories of my own experience. I'm not an expert on dreams.

I had a dream. I don't even know how achievable it was for me, but I never managed to fulfill it. I was involved in sports and wanted to become an Olympic champion, a world champion. I was passionate about it, believed that I could achieve it, but apparently not enough. And luck, which seemed to be smiling and winking at me not long ago, undoubtedly moved on to someone else. The heartless lady.

Was I disappointed? Undoubtedly. Did my world crumble? Yes, at least for a while. I think I even experienced something like real depression. But time calmed me down.

I thought a lot about dreams and luck. And here's the comfort I found in talking to myself. Of course, it's self-deception, but it worked. Here's how I deceived myself:
Do you remember how you started to get cocky when the first serious wins intoxicated you? If you had achieved what you dreamed of, you would most likely have become an unbearable braggart.
That would have been a different you - not having pondered many moments that you're thinking about now. Would you want that?
And maybe you would have gotten into some shady business, and prison or death would have awaited you.
Now I have dreams too. Yes, they are more down-to-earth, but they help me keep moving forward.
Perhaps in my case, not achieving the dream turned out to be an even greater stroke of luck than its fulfillment, but I will never know that.

My dreams are actually very pathetic because they often intertwine with material things, like money. And there are people who dream that they could get out of a wheelchair and start walking, or that the unbearable pains tormenting them for years would stop.

And if there's a queue for fulfilling dreams, let these people go ahead of the line. And I can wait.

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