One without a dream....

A week ago, one of my students asked me, "Alice, what's your dream?" "The dream for most teachers is to spend their winter and summer vacation in different parts of the world. What about yours?" At that moment, I wanted to nod my head, but, in my heart, I felt like crying.
"Well", I replied, "I once had lots of dreams, but when the most crucial one was broken, so were the others." I didn't know whether she understood it. Nevertheless, I started to think of many dreams we had had for such a long time.

"We will go to Japan, along with his family members."

"We will visit Europe, and practice German, another language we learned at school."

"We will go to a formal musical concert, for we didn't have enough money for it when we were students."

"We will have a feast once a month after we start to work." (We couldn't do this because we were just poor students then, and what we could have was eat at the street venders.)

"We will visit many places around Taiwan since we haven't done that before, unlike many other couples."

"We will stick together, and help each other, no matter what happens."

Still many other dreams.....

However, those dreams were broken and disappeared seven months ago. I don't know why this happened.Can I find those dreams back? Do I have other dreams now? Well, I really don't know. Maybe because of the sudden disappearance of those dreams, I dare not to make another dreams. I can't bear losing any dreams. Thus, I am a person without a dream. A few days ago, I explained an saying from a textbook for students. It says, "the poorest man is not without a cent, but without a dream." I think, I'm this kind of person now.


20:24 December 19, 2006