The Nightmares of a Dreamer
As a child, we all had parents that told us “you can be anything you want to be.” We all grew up with these dreams of the most elaborate lifestyles imaginable. I remember being in school and my 2nd grade teacher Mrs. Knackk asked all of us what we wanted to be when we grew up. A lot of the girls said Nurses, Actress, Dancers, etc. While a lot of the boys wanted to be athletes, entertainers and doctors. As a kid, you couldn’t tell any of us that those dreams weren’t obtainable because we all believe in our parents as kids and the fact that we can be anything we wanted to be. As we grow up though, society starts to hit you with the fact that dreaming in reality is just a nightmare! You start hearing the rumblings of society and why you need to stop dreaming. No matter how much you try to keep your dreams alive, its more people telling you to wake up! They say nothing comes to sleepers but dreams, but nothing comes to a person who’s awake but nightmares.
So what happened to those girls who dreamed of being Nurses and Actresses? Well simply put, LIFE! These girls a lot of times were forced to grow up fast. Absent fathers, sometimes neglecting mothers and sexual abuse makes a lot of these girls no longer see dreaming as a feasible thing. Because of the fact she got pregnant at 16, she no longer see those things as reachable goals anymore. Whenever she attempts to maybe go to sleep to get back her dreams, there is always somebody dumping salt on her sleeping ass saying “WAKE UP!... and come get this damn baby!” So she has to quit dreaming and go back to her responsibilities as a mother. Not that her baby is a nightmare, but the people around this girl wont allow her to dream. Why is that? A lot of these same people who once dreamed as well have stopped dreaming. So what people who no longer dreams do?? Judge other dreamers. So this girl keeps pushing and eventually enrolls in some online classes to be a RN to continue her dream, but then find it hard to even get a job. So she ends up just getting any job to support her child because her bum ass baby father has left her so once again everything seems more like a nightmare than a dream. Everybody this girls runs into now only see single mother, barely making it and struggling to raise her child, but nobody sees the girl who once dreamed about being a Nurse or an Actress. Now some might say well this girl shouldn’t have been having sex, but no one ever blames her parents whose job was to mold and guide this girl towards her dreams.
So what ever happened to the boys that wanted to be like Mike or entertain?? Well a lot of these little boys were working towards their dreams throughout adolescence. These boys played sports all the way up to high school and attempted to be the class clown because they enjoyed entertaining people. So what happened in High School? Well simply put, LIFE! That’s when coaches can start telling you “You’re not good enough”. The best basketball player of all time (In My Opinion) Michael Jordan was cut in high school. The coach told him “you’re not good enough to play at this level”. Michael Jordan was hurt! He actually went home and cried and his father came to him and asked what’s wrong? Mike looked up and told his dad he didn’t make the team because he wasn’t good enough. Mike’s fathers looked at him and said don’t ever let a person tell you what you can’t do! Work hard and go back next year and show them they were wrong. Those words motivated MJ to become the best in the world! As touching of a story that is, the average boy in high school can’t run home to his father and cry. When this boy gets cut, he has to accept it and find other things that interest him. In other words, he stops dreaming. He’s no longer as entertaining in class because the “jocks” get all the attention. He’s no longer cool because the “drug dealers” have all of the nice things. With no guidance and nobody telling him to keep dreaming he stops. Now you have a boy walking around the world with no dreams which is the worse thing. See one thing statistics don’t equate is the fact that people stop dreaming. So this kid who once dreamed, now turns to other people who no longer dreams. See the thing with us as people, is we tend to attract to people who is in the same place mentally as we are. You ever noticed in school “Jocks stuck with Jocks”, “Pretty Girls stuck with Pretty Girls”, “Thugs stuck with Thugs”, “Nerds stuck with Nerds” and “Hoes stuck with Hoes”! What happened when the girl who was a hoe attempted to hang with the pretty bitches? She was reminded that she was sleeping in the wrong bed and go back over there with the hoes. As those boys got older, they are constantly told what they can’t do by the people that should be supporting them to dream. When a person says “I rap”, its now frowned up upon by the same kids who once dreamed with them. The same kids you shared your animal crackers and orange juice with, wont support your dream but they will support the person who they inspire to be.
With all that said, the point is at the end of the day it’s important that you support the people around you dreams! A person without dreams is a person without hope. A person without hope is a person who lives a nightmare. As black people, we should support each other especially being that most other people don’t care to support us. Not only as black people, but as people in general you should support anybody who is dreaming to be better and chasing that dream. Whenever a person walks up to me and say check this out? I do it! Why? Because I don’t want that person to ever stop having hope. You never know what that dream is doing for that person. That same dream can be the only that keeps that person going. You never know how inspired you might get from someone else chasing their dream. Sometimes you never realize that you have stopped dreaming until you realize another person still is.
“ I close my eyes to create dreams Im going to do,
Then I open my eyes to see those things coming true,
Even though some days I don’t think lifes fair,
I rather chase those dreams then settle for the nightmares”
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