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My Dream
A Writing Competition For High School Students 
in the Fairfield Area, Sydney, Australia

Jim Du- Consolation Prize

In my life, there are only two types of dreams. They are the dreams that I dream during the night (or day), and there is the dream of my future, a dream of what I want to become.

In the dreams at night, I might dream about being a dancer, an artist, a singer, a vet, a doctor, a lawyer…I love those dreams. Of course I don’t take that seriously, I don’t want to become any of those. In these dreams, none of them are real, and most of them won’t come true. These dreams are opportunities for me to break away from the real world and relax. However, although my dreams can lift my spirits so high that I wouldn’t know what the word “sadness” meant, it can also cast uncertainty and gloom over me and drench my soul in fear in nightmares.

Every night, I dream about something. Most people forget their dreams in the morning when they wake up but I don’t, I remember them clearly and vividly, whether they are nightmares or fantasies.

Some people’s favourite time of the day maybe in the morning or in the afternoon, or even during dinnertime, my favourite time of the day is late at night, when my eyes become heavier as I drift off to slumber land. Once I enter the dream world, anything is possible. In that world, horses have

wings, trees can talk, and I control everything. In my dreams, I can do anything I want to do, I can do things that I wouldn’t dream of doing in the real world. My bed is my personal holiday resort; I can be in America one night and be in Japan the next.

One night, would be dreaming about being a highly respected doctor and I saved all my patients with a simple wave of the hand.

Another night, I would be a prestige lawyer. I would win court cases with effortless ease and get paid handsomely for not doing much at all.

In my dreams, I am a fighter pilot back in World War II. I would be the only fighter pilot left fighting for Great Britain and single-handedly win the war and be awarded medals for bravery and courage by Winston Churchill himself!

Nevertheless, all my dreams aren’t happy and jolly; I do have the occasional nightmare.

In my nightmares, I dream about wolves chasing me on one dark quiet night. I run and run trying to work out where I was from the dim light that came from the moon. The wolves won’t give up until they capture their prey – me! And when they do eventually capture me, I wake up, perspiring from head to toe.

I sometimes dream about living in a world of silence. Everyone so actively unaware of me, as if I wasn’t there, as if I didn’t exist!

I dream about falling, falling, falling into a dark gloomy bottomless pit. I the feeling of my stomach dropping like when a person goes down on a lift.

I dream of losing my parents in a terrible fire, that engulfed my house. I’m all-alone with a distant relative of mine that thinks about nothing but himself and way to take my family fortune, which my parents left with me.

Those dreams were the dreams I dream about at night. The other dream is to become a doctor. My aim is to find a cure for cancer because there is a cure for cancer and I want it to be affordable so that everybody in the world to be able to acquire it. I don’t want become a doctor for fame and fortune. I want become a doctor because I want to help people who are sick or need any medical advice. After I become a doctor, I would try even harder to achieve my ultimate goal – to be awarded with the Australian of the year award. I know it won’t be easy, but I’ll do everything in my power to get it.

            First in high school, I would have to study really hard in the junior years as well as the senior years so that I will be well prepared for the HSC. I’m only in year eight, and I’m in the top class. However, although I’m in the top class, I can’t stop trying to improve my skills. I don’t know what to study to become a doctor, but I know it won’t be easy. It doesn’t matter how hard it is, as long as I enjoy the subject.

            Why would a thirteen-year-old boy want to become a doctor, one might wonder. Well, as I said earlier, I want to find a cure for cancer. It’s because whenever I hear about someone dying from cancer, it scares me a little, because right now, there is no cure for cancer. I feel helpless; I

want to do something about it.Not only do I want to find a cure for cancer, I want people hooked on drugs to get rid of the bad habit. I live in Cabramatta, and it is an absolutely wonderful place to live in, but when I see those people standing in the streets half asleep, I know they have been taking drugs. When I see this, my heart squeezes into a tight ball, I feel sorry for them. If those people keep up this appalling habit, soon they will die. As I walk to school, I see needles carelessly been thrown on the ground. By doing this they not only ruin their own lives, but put others on the line also. If I don’t become a doctor, I would open a rehabilitating centre for the people who have recently given up drugs. In five more years, my dream will come true. If I achieve a good result in the HSC, I will be in university studying to become a doctor. I can’t wait

until that day comes, maybe by the time I become a doctor, there will already be a cure for cancer. If that really does happen, my dream would have finally come true, even though I didn’t discover the cure myself, it’s all the same to me.

 

 
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