THE MEMORY OF YOU...US...MY 8TH GRADE YEAR

Lost Dreams

Dreams. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” Don’t be afraid to have dreams. I like to look at dreams, as goals. Think of them as the goals you set for yourself. When people say “live the life of your dreams”, I think of goals I want to meet and things I want to accomplish.

When you begin to lose sight of your dreams and goals, that is when you may start to lose hope or feel helpless. Your dreams and passions are what make life interesting. We each have our own passions. We each dream differently. While we may have some similarities to others, we also have differences. Those differences are part of what make us human. We will have differences and sometimes they will cause disagreements among people. However, your passions and dreams give you something to put positive energy into. In my case, writing. I am not only using my passion to channel positive energy in a difficult time, I am using it to spread positivity to others. If you are passionate about something, then pursue that thing. As long as you are happy with your choice and you know it is right and true to yourself, then pursue your dreams. Pursue your passion.

I would tell this to everyone around me after we lost Aydin. What I didn’t realize was that I was being a hypocrite. I had kept telling them to hold on to their dreams. To always dream of Aydin and to think of positives. To live their lives for him. He would want them to live their lives and be happy. While I told everyone else to do this, I never did it for myself. I kept losing sight of my dreams, goals, and passions. I kept losing my positivity and I let myself slip away.

Doing what you love and what you are passionate about, is what makes life interesting. It’s what makes each of us unique and different from one another. If we all thought the same, liked the same things, dreamt the same things, then life wouldn’t be interesting anymore. We would simply be living in a black and white world. Our world is full of art and color and similarities as well as differences. There is nothing wrong with being different. Our differing opinions are what make us unique from each other. They are what makes us special in our own way. They make you a one of a kind human.

While we are all working towards a common goal, whatever that may be, we take different paths to get there. Not every person will do the same thing as another person, but in the end, we meet our goals and accomplish what we want to accomplish. Now, if you think that you haven’t accomplished what you wanted to, then maybe you lost sight of your dreams and goals. Or maybe you are just working on your path to get yourself there in the right way.

I was in a position where I thought I would never meet my goals because I didn’t have my best friend to guide me through it all. However, what I’ve come to realize is that, while he played a major part in my life, I didn’t need him to hold my hand through everything. Aydin taught me that if I feel as though I haven’t yet met a goal that I have set for myself, then it could be one of two reasons. One, I could have lost sight of my goals and fallen off track. Or two, over time, my goals might have changed. He helped me to get back on my own two feet and in the process stopped holding my hand through it all, and let me be free to take control of my own life.

If you find yourself in the position of questioning your goals or dreams, then take a minute to step back and re-evaluate everything. Look at life through a new perspective. Try seeing things from a different point of view. It can really help to clear up what your dreams are and what goals you want to accomplish in life. “Lost Dreams” are just dreams and goals that we have lost sight of and need a little push to find them again. To find ourselves and who we are. Always remember that if you lose sight of your dreams, it just means that you are taking time to figure out yourself and what’s best for YOU, in your life.