Dreams and Hopes

I have been thinking about dreams. Not like the dreams you have at night but the dreams and hopes you have for the future. 

Life has turned out so differently than I ever expected. It is not bad at all, and I am truly happy, it is just different than what my dreams and hopes had been. In some ways I stopped dreaming about what I want and have become grateful for what I have. I know what it is like to work hard for what you have even if it is not exactly what you want and to be grateful for what you DO have because it could be a lot worse.

I think that we live in a world where dreams are shattered every day. Many people are living from day to day hoping that next week they still have a job and are able to provide for their families. People don’t take time to dream anymore because reality comes in and steels their dreams away. 

If I could have one super power it would be the ability to heal broken hearts and shattered dreams. Of course I do not. I can’t tell you how many people I have spoken to who are hurting and longing for something better.  I was visiting with a friend the other day, who is struggling with the tragedy of broken, or rather shattered, dreams because of divorce. I have never been married so I can’t fully comprehend.  As I was listening to my friend I could see the pain in their eyes and I felt that my friend had dreams that had been shattered and broken. Now my friend is trying to make since of their new life. Then there are those who struggle with lost dreams, not through divorce but through bad decisions of others and even themselves. And there are those whose dreams and hopes never came. To my friend and to all those that are struggling with broken dreams, because there are many, stay strong and it will eventually get better. 

I love the conference talk “Sunday Will Come” by Joseph B Wirthlin; it talks about no matter how hard life gets it will get better. When I think of all the loss in the world I also think of the story of Job in the Bible. He was a man that lost all that he had and after a trial of his faith, a very long and difficult trial, he received all that he had lost and more. I like to think that it will be the same with each of us. We may lose quite a bit however if we stay strong we will be blessed with all that we lost and more. I have always felt that Heavenly Father will compensate for all the pain and loss that we endure.

So you ask, what are my dream and hopes? I have many

 

November 25, 2012

I was thinking more on the subject of dreams and hopes. I think that for me I have not stopped dreaming and hoping. My dreams and hopes have just changed for what they once were.

Here is a quote that I came across a few weeks ago that is on the same topic as I have written.

"I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." Henry David Thoreau