Childhood Dreams

                 

                              Ambition or Future Disappointments?

Every one of us had a childhood dream, maybe we didn't achieve these dreams, maybe we are still working on them, and maybe we will never achieve them, because these dreams are really impossible and we realized that long time ago and gave up on them and got disappointed. Even if these childhood dreams were silly and impossible they certainly had a great effect on our path in life. What do these dreams represent? Our ambition or our disappointments? Should we encourage our children to dream or inhibit them from dreaming?

We might be allowed to put limits to our dream now and rationalize them because we are mature enough but, as teachers and parents are we mature enough to put limits for our children's dreams? Well, I don't think so, we can't decide which dream is achievable and which one is not, we can't put limits to their abilities and to their imagination. It is their mind and their ambition whether they can achieve it or not. Whatever these dreams are, they will give them a push to work and become a better person and achieve something even if they didn't achieve their real dream.

Unfortunately, in our homes and schools we still can find parents and teachers making fun of the children's dreams, without realizing that they are stealing their rights, and suppressing their abilities. They think that they are protecting them from future disappointments, don't they know that these are the best kind of disappointments?! The kind that can make you laugh proudly in case that these dreams became disappointments.

Hope is all we have and hope is what we should give to our students and we should give them a chance to dream and encourage them to work for it. We don't have the right to steal the joy of dreaming from their eyes. Their dreams today may become our reality tomorrow.