When you ask little kids about what they want to be when they grow up, they usually answer with lots of radiant hope that they want to be a police officer, a fire fighter, and teacher, a detective, an artist, an astronaut....Rarely will you ever hear I want to be an office clerk, work in a dead beat job, be homeless, be discriminated on, incarcerated....Most little kids dream of changing the world, helping others, and making their dreams come true. So what happens on the way from childhood to adulthood that makes most of lose that sparkle?
Some people say that it's the system, others say it's fear, while the rest say it's just that children are naive and there are responsibilities that must be taken care of. According to dictionary.com, a system is defined as :noun an assemblage or combination of things or parts forming a complex or unitary whole: a mountain system; a railroad system...any assemblage or set of correlated members." I wonder, are we not the parts that make the whole? Are we not the members of society? According to dictionary.com fear is defined as "noun a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid." So, what are we truly afraid of? Also, responsibility is defined as, "adjective answerable or accountable, as for something within one;s power, control, or management." What do we have control over? What are we accountable to?
The reasons that most people in society give up on and/or abandon their dreams are for arbitrary reasons. We talk about all these things as if we can't touch it or see it. As if we can't do anything about it. Yet, we are the ones that create it. Then that would mean that we are accountable for what is going on with the stale and abandoned dreams. So what do we do? Some give up and go with the flow, others try to change the world, the rest wait for the wold to change.
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