[fly]Dreams[/fly]
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow”
——By Langston Hughes
Above is my favorite poem. Why do I like it so much? It tells the meaning of dreams and the relationship between dreams and one’s living.
It is a guide of our living. We work hard and head for the direction of our dream. So, when there are “two roads in the woods”, we may choose one that is related to our dreams. When we lost our way in some period of our lives, the dream is the lighthouse which penetrates the thick fog and guides our little boat of life, showing us the way.
It is the impetus of our living. Life, sometimes, is so boring that we need something to drive us forward. Dreams are just what need especially under this circumstance. With dreams, we succeed in not only overcoming the boring but also beating many difficulties we have met. Without dreams, we might have fallen. Because of the dream to rebuild the Yue Kingdom, the captive Goujian, the former king of Yue, could bear all the insults and made his dream come into reality at last. So the famous story of will and dream come into being. Now, the idiom, where there is a will there is a way, is extensively known. Because of the greatest dreams of human being, the Red Army managed to have climbed the jokul, crossed the grassland, and finally arrived in Shanbei.
There is an interesting theory about dreams. As far as I am concerned, the Buddhism is sort of religion about dream. It tells its adherent that people have three kinds of lives, i.e. the preexistence, this life and future life. People of this life suffered because of the sins they had in their preexistence, so they should bear and behave well in order to have a good living in the other life. In the history, such dreams of future lives are especially helpful for the feudal governance.
Today, our society, unlike the ancient society, endows with our dreams feasibility. More and more opportunities are offered, more and more equity are coming into reality, more and more democracy are fulfilled, and more and more people could share more and more freedom. In this sense, dreams means more for modern people than for ancient people.
I would like to say that dreams are the flowers of life. |