The key to fulfilling your dreams

Bright eyes,
burning like fire.
Bright eyes,
how can you close and fail
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes.
Simon and Garfunkel - Bright eyes
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"I hope, I dream, I do!"  The power of hope in fulfilling your dreams and actually DOING them.
The phrase above was written on a poster on the wall of my English class. It triggered a waterfall of thoughts inside of me, questioning the truth of this matter.
Is Hope such a powerful emotion that it can move mountains and lead us, with our stubborn egos, to do what we dream of?
I´d like to say yes. Hope can thrive in the darkest times and driest deserts. People who only have known oppression still carry a little spark in their eyes, the light of hope reflects in
their hearts. Once they have the strong feeling that everything somehow will be better, once they hope, then they are mentally ready to make the big change and break out of the cage
of their misery, either caused by others or by themselves.
Many people are stuck in the mindset that life merely offers pain and neverending sorrow, and they are often egoistic in claiming that everyone has turned against them. Every slap in their face has, according to those people, the sole function to hurt them, let them feel the burn of living on this planet. That is not true. We can choose to turn the other cheek at life and let it slap us twice, or we can stop its hand in the air and ask it: ´Why do you wish to hurt me? Enlighten me on this matter?´.

 Each obstacle we see in front of us, the last, the current and the next burden we have to carry is brought to us to learn from it. See pain as an injection with a virus, it does a bit
of mental and physical damage, but our soul eventually makes antibodies against it. We slowly get better and feel stronger than ever. Our mind has learned how to cope with the
distress. We have the tools and are experienced now. Life has healed us.
Once people have seen the true intentions of this short phase called "life", then they are open to constructive emotions as hope and love. We need to have both eyes inside, to see the progress and growth of our soul, and outside, to still see what´s happening out there.
The next logical step in an healthy humans mind is to think about the future, thus dream. Dreaming is mostly seen as irrational and more as a waste of productive time. Current society expects us to behave as robots, whose only purpose is to work and be succesful. Yet dreaming is highly productive and a balm for our souls.
 I can´t say that we don´t need to keep our feet on the ground at times, but we need to look upwards, reach out to the Sun and dream of better things.
Dreaming and hoping form a circle, the one makes the other stronger. When the strength grows, we form a certain passion for it. This is the direct path to action.
Dreams to which no action follows are a pass time, and to me eventually an empty shell. Many people carry regrets due to missed chances. The passion was there, still is, they were somehow afraid to take the jump. This is one of the biggest mistakes we can make, our minds stop us, making excuses (whether based on reason or not) to stop following our heart.
My goal in life is to never stop hoping, always keep dreaming and do the things I want to do.