Life and dreams...

If we had no dreams or aspirations, our minds and intellects would merely be subsisting.

We would not really be living, only persisting in a state of existence which has no meaning or purpose.

There would be no destination to our journey.

No point in our life that we can look back at nor anything on the horizon of our future that we can see from a distance.

We would not notice or meet any interesting people.

And we would not say our fond farewells to them afterwards after they have become our friends.

So in spite of my situation that constantly threatens to jolt me into waking up, I will keep dreaming.

Not because I'm idealistic and blind to the reality before me.

But because I want to say fond farewells to people that have become my friends.

Because I want to meet interesting people.

Because I want to be able to look back at my life and laugh or smile at it.

I want to look forward to the future.

I want to find out where my journey finally takes me.

But most of all, I want to live.