How many time do we as parents discourage our children to live up to their dreams. When they tell us about the Porsche that they are going to drive or they explain to us how they are going to be the President and change the world.

Have you ever noticed the dissapointment in their eyes when we shoot them down and tell them that in reality it does not work that way. When we do that we are telling our children that we don’t beleive in their dreams. We think that they are not good enough to do the things they dream about.

I remember as a child I always had the dream of being a teacher. Both my parents were teachers and I had the opportunity to spend some time with them in their classrooms.  I could just see myself educating young people when I grow up. My father however never really enjoyed teaching and always discourged me from doing it.

I then decided to study law and become a prosecutor which wasn’t quite what my father had intended for me either. He saw me as a tour quide. His dream for me was to get married to an average guy and live in an average house, but that was his dream not mine. 

In my heart I was a born teacher. During my third year at university I converted from my law degree to an education degree and started to study teaching. I eventually fulfilled the dream my parents never believed in.

I always used to pretend to drive a nice car and live in a nice house, because that is who I am. I never believed that we should settle for second best if we can get the best in life. The great thing is we can all have the best but it is up to us to make that decision and take it.

We were all born with certain talents that will help us in our lives to achieve the best. Some of us are just to scared to go out and discover our talents. We leave it up to other people to decide for us what we are good in. We are willing to settle for a normal life and still expect that things will come to us as though is was meant to be.

We are too scared to follow our dreams, to climb out of the box and discover ourselves for who we really are. The real you, the person you were dreaming to be, not the person your parents wanted you to be.

Today I drive my dream car and live in my dream house because I followed my dreams that were given to me as a young child.

Instead of discourging our children when they tell us about their dreams. Let’s rather engourage them to live to those dreams, because who said that my child cannot be the President, or the next Donald Trump in a few years time.  

 

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