The Dream, The Drive

This sounds lame, but I've always had this dream. You see, I've heard from so many different people (whom are in their like, late twenties now) that they remember sitting in the theater back in 1994 seeing The Lion King. In 1994 I was barely being born, so I surely wasn't sitting in that theater. Even though I did grow up watching this movie  I've always envied those older kids who saw it in theaters. I'm not sure why, The Lion King isn't even my favorite Disney movie, but I've dreamed of being able to see this movie in the sticky-floored, fake leather seated theater, that is my own Tinseltown, forever. I mean FOREVER. So I'm sure you can imagine how ecstatic I was back in July when I learned The Lion King in 3D was coming to theaters for two weeks. If you can't imagine it, I believe there was squealing and jumping involved. I've waited all this time, and ,FINALLY, I saw it on Saturday afternoon.It was simply amazing.I laughed just as much as the children who surrounded me in the theater did; I got emotional and teary-eyed when Mufasa died; anytime a song came on I was dancing a singing my heart out. It was an incredible experience. I can't even explain how giddy and smiley I was before, during, after, and even now just thinking about it. It really was a dream come true.

So strikes my subject; dreams. I've written about dreams before, but on a more personal note and then for a poetry contest last year in English class. But I don't think I've expressed the importance of dreams. In this case, dreams are what you want most in life (goals and such), not the dreaming you do when you're asleep and really awkward things happen. There are no dancing muffins, zombie hunting, or unicorn discovering in this dreaming... Anyways, it's very important to have dreams/goals in life. Whether it's within your career, family, or anything else, you gotta dream. I feel very strongly about this. However, if you were to ask me what my "life-long-dreams" were, I would not be able to give you an answer. I've no idea... My first response would be that I dream of being in college; it's something I've looked forward to since about the 3rd grade. However, in a year when I AM in college, then what? My dream is fulfilled and I'm set for life? Surely not... Second I would answer "to be a successful journalist." Even before I knew exactly what journalism was about, I knew I wanted to be one. Now I've only reassured myself of this. But I feel as though that is not the right answer to the question either,despite how much I desire this... So next I would say, in all honesty, that I have this ridiculous thought inside of me that I want to be a secret agent (like James Bond), to be a superhero, and to space travel. None of these things are what I truly want, but they are all so appealing to me, like they seem so flipping cool, that it makes me think that I want this. So basically I'm not sure what to say if somebody asked me of my life-long-dream... Recently I've asked some people, mostly a few teachers, what their life-long-dream is (assuming nobody really wants to grow up and teach a bunch of punk kids, or that's just me). Pretty much none of them could answer, except one who actually did WANT to teach... Besides that, this got me wondering if this is really such a thing, a life-long-goal. I mean, people are indecisive and changing their minds a dozen times a day. How could they set a dream to fulfill and keep them content for a life time? I really don't know.

Life-long-dream or not, I still know that dreaming is important. Without a dream, even when it's the kind that sort of puts your head in the clouds and feet off the ground, one doesn't have the drive life needs. You know? Like if somebody didn't have the dream and drive, we wouldn't have cars or most technology or pretty much anything. Without having a dream, America would still be segregated. The world we live in today has been built upon the dreams we had yesterday. Dreaming, of course, isn't much unless you have the initiative and ability to execute it. But without the dream, there's nothing to push towards. If we can't dream of a better tomorrow, will we ever have one? And as I wrote this, although it didn't go in the direction I planned on it going (like most things I write), I changed my mind. Now that I can cross seeing The Lion King off my list, I have a dream. Or I've always had this dream, so I guess it could be considered life-long. At the moment I'm content, but in life I want to be happy. In whatever I do. I want to have that kind of career that I love doing, therefore it isn't work at all. I want to be able to be exactly who I am. I want to be around people who love me and most of all don't judge me. So my point, if you haven't caught the drift, is dream. Don't just dream, but dream big. Dream about a world you want to live in. Whether you dream of inventing something incredible, making a nice family of your own, or seeing one of the most played childhood movies on the big screen, you've got to dream. I want tomorrow to be a better day for the world, so I dream.

But more importantly, if you've read this much (thank you) and are bored out of your mind, I'm telling you to go see The Lion King in 3D. I don't care how old you are or anything. The 3D makes it amazing (and I'm not even into 3D movies). GO SEE IT, it's only out for 2 weeks!!!!