I Have A Dream.
Hello there!
I always talk about how it's been awhile, but
it's been really long, or how I haven't had time to write when
I'm really just watching Glee everyday and night. HAHAHAHAA. But I have been thinking of writing about this for awhile, and finally I've decided to really sit down to write it.
While sitting
a little more than a metre away from my
boyfriend who's playing his game on his 3DS enjoying the beginning of his holidays, and
surrounding by PR notes because I'm still living in hell, I decided writing might give me a break from Glee and PR. Eeewww that combination.
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I have a dream.
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That is a very great phrase to be mentioned. It sounds highly inspirational, and it is. But it is also deathly, killing so many people on the insides for as long as men have lived. A dream,
in usual context, refers to motions/visuals/sounds/situations our brain conjures up in our sleep. More often than not, we have dreams.
But we all know what that phrase meant. I have a dream, and I've had this same dream for years. Some dreams are big, some are small. Some could be to marry their boyfriend of many years, some could be to make a lot of money. Some could be to be famous, or some could be to actually lead a normal life for once.
Some people want to be surrounded by a happy family, some just want to be alone for the rest of their lives. Some people want to be teachers, doctors, lawyers. Some want to be businessmen, actors, hollywood stars.
I want to be a dancer.
It's a far-fetched dream, and I know it.
But for as long as I've danced, I've wanted to be a dancer. For as long as I've put on those ballet shoes and moved along to the music, I've wanted to always feel that same way I did on the first dance practice. I remember fumbling about, and I remember how I still did just maybe yesterday at dance.
A good dancer or not, I have this dream. And this dream has always been with me. It's difficult, almost impossible. And that is why I've constructed other dreams, feasible and boring dreams. Dreams like
starting a family with the man I love and
getting a job that pays well. Dreams like buying a house with a full-length mirror and bar so I can, for a moment, relive my dream.
They say the bigger the dream, the tougher it is. The bigger the dream, the happier you'll be when you realise it. But I know I'll never realise this dream. I don't even want to be a professional dancer that is known worldwide. I just want to teach dancing, inspire young people like I was inspired. Help them make that first step.
I just want to always, have dancing, as a part of my life.
I want to listen to any music and dance to it, even when I'm 35 or 52. Dancing has taught me so much about self-expression and living without being ashamed.
10 years ago I wouldn't have been able to dance in public listening to music plugged in my earphones without giving a care about people staring at me. I wouldn't have been able to face a full theatre of people while standing in the front row centre. I wouldn't have been able to do an interview on television or dance on international events.
But dancing has taught me so much about how being ashamed of things that you love gets you nowhere.
It has taught me to be shameless, because that helps so much in achieving what you really want.
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This is my dream. However far-fetched and impossible it may be, it is my dream. And it will always be my dream. We may have many dreams in our lives, but nothing will come quite as close as the one that will always be in the back of our heads despite tough times and happy moments.
Even if I know it's not what I see myself doing in the future,
even if I know it's impossible, I have this dream. And I love having this dream.
When we're young, we're given the privilege to dream big dreams. We're given the chance to dream of something so incredible we'll laugh at ourselves a few years later, thinking how
silly we were back then. But when we're young, we don't know that dancing don't really pay bills and gives you an unstable lifestyle.
We don't know any of that.
But we do know that we have that dream. And however tough it may seem sometimes, when our instructor is scolding us for
not being able to catch that move or being singled out for doing something
wrong ... We believe in that dream.
And now that I'm growing up, I'm seeing life as it is. Dancing is difficult, almost impossible. But dancing is my dream. And I am so proud to have this dream. Not everybody dreams big, but everybody wishes, till their death bed, that they had a chance to realise this dream.
I don't need to realise this dream. I just need it to be there, regardless. It's what keeps me alive, breathing, and happy everyday. It's what keeps me going.
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I have a dream. What's yours?