A Drummer’s Dream (Living Your Life With Dr Abdulfattah Adeyemi)
Dreams can have such a powerful grip on our lives. We have these ideas of a good life we dream of: things we wish we could do, people we wish we could be like, and heights we wish we could reach.
Nevertheless, not all dreams are meant to come true. It is a fact of life. We cannot possibly have everything we dream of. There are some heights we will never attain and some goals will be forever beyond our reach.
One single life-time cannot be enough for us to do everything we ever wanted to do: we can only do our best within our human limitations and time allotted. All the same, if after we have tried so hard and it didn’t work, so be it. But how can we know that a particular dream is not meant to come true if we never try?
However, so many people seem gifted with the ability to have dreams of grandiose proportions, but their dreams are so big and intimidating, such that, rather than be motivated by the goals ahead, they are overwhelmed by the daunting nightmare.
For this reason, it is the same dream that should push them forward that is holding them back. Others have dreams that they can handle, but they are not fired by the passion to drive their dreams to reality. They just sit back recounting, revising and re-editing their wishes without chasing after anything.
Yet, they wish and hope that their dreams would come true someday. Truth is: if dreams are not chased, will they ever come to reality? Can false hope get anyone anywhere?
Conversely, some people do not really know what to dream of, talk less of recognizing any opportunity to make it come true. Moreover, what if we are faced by too many obstacles that we cannot humanly handle? What if we are the ones stifling our own dreams to death by surrounding ourselves with so many avoidable distractions? Shouldn’t we drop the shadows and pursue the real stuff instead?
Nonetheless, a person’s dream can be to assist others in achieving theirs. We can help to put a fallen hatchling back into its nest. We can offer drinking water to a thirsty nightingale so it can sing again.
We can offer an appropriate pair of shoes to a determined individual that needs to run through a thorny path to success. It is possible that while helping others realize their dreams, ours are concurrently coming true. One person’s dream to be a good drummer might be in tandem with another person’s dream to be a good dancer.
