DREAM DOERS

May 29, 2014

An elderly man, in the final days of his life is lying in bed alone. He awakens to see a large group of people around his bed. Their faces is loving but sad. Confused, the old man smiles and whispers, “You must be my childhood friends who have come to say good-bye. I am grateful.” Moving closer to the man, the tallest one among them grasps the man’s hand and says, “Yes, we are your best and oldest friends, but long ago you abandoned us.”

                        

“We are the unrealized hopes and dreams and plans that you once felt deeply in your heart, but never pursued. We are the unique talents that you never refined, the special gifts you never discovered. Old friend, we have not come to comfort you, we have come to die with you.” We all have wonderful and colorful dreams, but in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, effort and action. Dreams will not auto-happen, just so we are clear, you need to make them happen.

King Solomon had a dream of building a temple. The dream temple would not have been built had Solomon not activated the passion in the people of that land by doing the dream. Sadly, when people refuse to do their dreams, another person employs them to help do his own dream which is why the number of employees on earth are far more than the number of employers.

Have you not noticed that majority of the people making things happen in this era are people who are busy doing their dreams. The world would not celebrate mediocrity, the world would only celebrate celebrity and celebrity are the people who are busy doing their dreams. Sir, you only have one life to live, live it to the fullest. There is no worse statement that, “I wished I did my dream.”

Always remember that to dream is good, but to do the dream is better.

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