I have a dream

On the path to maturity, sometimes we may feel hopeless, but we should have the confidence in ourselves. A dream is like a light in the darkness,  that can cheer us up and give us energy when we are tired. 

When I was a little girl, my mum always asked me: “What’s your dream, my dear?” Tell you the truth, I really didn’t know what I want to be in the future. I didn’t have a dream. How terrible! My mum told me that she wanted to be a kindergarten teacher, because she likes the cheerfulness and innocence of children and enjoys the time with them. But in my daily life, she is very strict and she doesn’t give any freedom. I can’t imagine her as a kindergarten teacher.

From then on, I always asked myself “Alice, what is your dream？”And until I was fifteen, I didn’t have one.

In junior middle school, my studies were not going very well , and I was in the middle of the class. My grades sometimes went up, sometimes down, and my mum, always worried about me, enrolled me in various cram schools. She hoped that I could enter a good high school, so I could have a better life in the future and be happy. It was a simple hope.

However, even though I tried my best, I still could not get good grades. I had no choice but to study hard. At my lowest, I really wanted to give up. I couldn’t see any hope. Unfortunately , I didn’t have enough perseverance, and I didn’t take my studies seriously. I felt very nervous before every exam, and felt regret when I saw my low grades.

In the last, crucial examinations, I didn’t do very well, and thus, I couldn’t get into a good high school. My mum was very disappointed, and we had a fight. I was in a bad mood in those days, and everything was black in that days .I didn’t want to do anything, just wanted to sleep and forget myself.

Was I such a terrible student? No, I thought I mustn’t be like that. Although I failed in the examinations, I couldn’t lost heart , and  I couldn’t give up. Since then, I make up my mind that I must enter a good university, to pay back my mum. My mum gets up very early and goes to bed very late every day, and worries about me every moment. I can see her white hair. I don’t feel very well as I see my mum become old.

As I get older, I feel that I haven’t made my mum very proud.

And so, my dream is very simple:  that is through my own efforts and enter a great university. A dream doesn’t have to be grandiose; so long as it can be realized through one’s efforts, it is meaningful and realistic. In the past, I didn’t do my best to perform tasks that I should had done well, and I don’t want leave this regret later in life. Now the most important thing is to study hard, and only in this way that I can get what I want in the future and realize my dream of being successful and happy.

“If a person has no dream, what is the difference between them and a salted fish?” Finally, now I understand the meaning of the famous question. Only if we have our own dream do we have the motivation to go forward. Dreams can inspire us all the time, even in the darkness.

That is my dream, a simple dream, to study at a great university in the future ,  and then enjoy a beautiful life with my mum.