OUR DREAMS VERSUS OUR REALITY

Dreams can be formulated as what we envision for ourselves in life in the long run. Dreams can also be our imagination of an incredible life. Reality is what we live with or have to live with in our daily lives and which, in most cases is out of our control. 

Unfortunately what we dream of is very different from how our reality is. Our dreams and our realities barely meet. What we envision for ourselves are great luxurious or beautiful things that we in reality forget we are incapable of doing. 

However, it is not always about our abilities but it's just how life is and should be lived and it's not in our power to change things. People often find themselves on a different path of life which they never saw themselves taking. It's called life, where we have to live with whatever comes our way. 

Some examples of how people find themselves in different situations include:

It all starts at a young age, where we have dreams of taking certain occupations. Remember the phrase, "When I grow up, I would like to be a.......... ". The answers would mostly be; a doctor, teacher, pilot, engineer, those being the common occupations we knew at the time. 

When we become more aware of the different occupations in primary or high school and we probably want to be that doctor, engineer but eventually our K.C.S.E grades say it all. It determines what courses we take, and in which to our surprise we find lots of them which we never knew of. 

Other kids wish to grow in a complete family, full of love and peace. To our surprise, families end up broken, and in which we can do nothing about it. 

Again when one is done with college or university and you are out there looking for jobs in line with the course you took, positively wishing to obtain one. 

To our awe, securing a job becomes much more difficult than we ever imagined and in most cases, people end up taking jobs different from what they studied in school. We are even at times forced to take other short courses to match your new career path while others end up setting up their own business. 

Another outline is when people anticipate being in a great relationship and marriage full of love, respect, great bonding, and magnificent treatment. However, very few relationships and especially marriage last, about 40%, and in which we can't say are 100% thrilled. We thus find ourselves in melancholy, something we never dreamed of.

We also contemplate climbing up the ladder fast in our careers or lead a very successful business, but all this ends up being a slow painstaking process.

All in all, amidst all these different turns and paths that life forces us to take, we should just embrace them without cursing. We should also try to enjoy the small and simple things that come our way. We live in a very complicated world but we just have to go with the flow and create happiness within us. 

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