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Countless generations of
people have tried desperately to achieve their one goal;
their dream. The question I want to ask is why? Don’t we all
succumb to one fate? So why even try to achieve anything in
this world when we all know that when our time comes we all
go down the same road.
This question has played in
my mind ever since I could think of what we do and why we do
it. So far only one answer has come to mind.
All the great achievers in
our time, the people that changed the world we live in
forever, all had one thing in common. They all had the same
eagerness to change the world for the better, or for the
worse.
Think about it for a
second. Martin Luther King’s dream was for everybody to have
equal rights, no matter if they have a different religion,
are a different colour or come for a different country. He
didn’t do this to become rich or famous; he did this because
he wanted to change the world, not just for himself but for
every human being on the planet.
That is why I also want to
change the world. I know that millions upon millions of
people have tried before me and failed but I don’t care if
nobody remembers my name, as long as I do something with the
life that I’m so lucky to have.
Then again you may be
thinking, what’s the point of wasting your whole life
changing the world when you can just mind your own business
and let things be the way they are.
I have only one response to
this.
When people stop thinking
of just themselves and start caring about their world you
will see that everything that has plagued mankind for
centuries will disappear.
I’m not going to lie to
myself or anyone else by saying that I’m going to accomplish
this dream, who knows maybe it will never come true and
mankind will eventually destroy itself. Nobody knows what is
going to happen in the future all they can do is try to make
sure that they have the best possible chance at preventing
the worst things to happen.
To try to accomplish my
dream I need a position that I have some power in law and
power in influencing the way people think. That is why I’ve
decided to have a career in politics.
When I become a politician
I’m going to change a lot of things, for instance, I believe
that criminals get off too lightly when it comes to
punishing them. Can you believe that someone can murder you
and only get twenty years? I believe that if you kill a man
you should spend the rest of your life in prison. I know
that some people wouldn’t agree with me but I also know that
the majority of Australia feels exactly the same way I feel.
Another change that I make is to take better care of the
environment, we are destroying our ecosystem in such a way
that soon more and more animals are going to become extinct
and before you know it our whole environment will get
destroyed.
I also know for a fact that
some politicians are corrupt and I know that when I fulfil
half of my dream by becoming a politician that I would make
sure that I don’t become one of those people. I’m saying
this because I believe that when you’re a politician people
trust you and respect you, but when you break this respect
they hate and despise you.
The things that I have
mentioned above are but a trifle of what I dream of doing in
the future. My actual dream is for everybody to live in
harmony. There is so many things that we can do and
discover. The possibilities are endless if the whole world
unites. We could discover cures for every single disease, we
could abolish hunger and poverty, there are just so many
things that we could do if we all joined together.
Of course like I said
earlier my dream will probably never come true but I’m going
to do everything that is humanly possible to try to make it
come true. I know that even if I start to make it happen
that it would probably take centuries for the whole world to
change and only my descendents will live in my dream, but if
I don’t start it who will?
Hopefully, by the time I’m
old enough to enter politics things would have changed for
the better and there would be more people like me that want
to change the world.
It’s going to be a long,
hard journey to become a politician who is loved by all but
its going to be even harder to change the world. That’s why
I know for sure that I can’t possibly achieve what I want to
achieve by myself and that I’m going to need help from
everybody in the world.
In conclusion, a dream
isn’t something that we want to do if we get the chance to
or something that we always dismiss be saying I’ll do that
tomorrow. A dream is what keeps us alive, without a dream
what would we be? We need dreams to survive and to strive
to. Even little children have dreams of becoming astronauts
or presidents. Of course our dreams get more realistic as we
age, but nevertheless we all need that reassurance that we
aren’t living our lives just for the sake of it but we’re
alive because we are going to do something with it. I just
hope that my dream will someday, eventually come true. |
