Dream on or realise it…

When you look back on your childhood or teens, you certainly have been asked 'what you want to do when you graduate' or 'what you will do for a living'. Most people, me included, responded to the question with either the answer of 'what their parents wanted them to be' or 'what is an occupation worth having '. Now you are in your 20’s or 30’s, what do you reckon? Is your “normal” life what you dreamed of?

I have been living in Australia for five months. Before I came here, I worked for a multinational accounting firm as an accountant. X years before then when I finished my military service and returned to the university, I needed to prepare myself for life outside uni. I decided to become an accountant and not only was I interested in the role of accountants in a capitalist society, but I majored in accounting at my university. The way of being of an accountant required a lot of devotion from me in my twenties. Three tenths of my twenties were spent to achieve it. As my colleagues did, I buried myself in the textbooks. I studied more than ten hours a day for three and a half years to pass the CPA exam. As far as what I do for a living is concerned, I made my dream real.

When pursuing your dreams, you will face the question of “what if” continuously. To minimize being shaken by the question of “what if”, you are required to have a firm resolve for your dream. In my opinion, this will help you carry out your life goals without hesitation. It gives you strength to go through the problem, no matter how hard the problem is. So you need to find where to base the resolve for pursuing your dreams.

It is devastating to fail when you really wanted it so much. No matter how hard you try to ward off a sense of failure, nothing can compensate for it. In this time of frustration, it is a very good time (?) to decide whether you try again or not “Is that what you sincerely want? If so, do you think you can bust your guts for your dream?” If you have an affirmative answer to this question, you can’t live without achieving your dreams.

Do you think you are in times of trouble in the pursuit of your dreams? Try again and harder with more passion.

by Jaden