To be grammatically correct, it should read a wish on which to build a dream, but that doesn’t have the same old zing, so I’ll leave it as it stands.
Everyone, I hope, has a wish to build a dream on. Some thing they want, some thing for which they would make sacrifices. Some thing, though thing is not always the wish. It could be a situation or a way of living that is different from the way things are now. As humans, I believe we all need a wish to build a dream on.
Here’s the problem. For far too many of us, myself included until I suddenly realize time is a-passing and if I don’t get off my duff and strive harder, my wish is only ever going to be a wish and not a reality, don’t do anything more than wish. “Oh, someday,” we whisper wistfully, taking comfort in the dream as though the dream were the reality. To have a wish or a dream is good, but I’m saying the wish or dream alone is not good enough and absolutely and positively should not be good enough. My wishes and my dreams are of great and enormous comfort as I travel down the path toward them, but they will not be a comfort if I get to the end of my life and only have wishes and dreams to show for a lifetime.
This is what Thoreau said, “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, you will meet with a success unimagined in your waking hours! Live the life you’ve imagined.”
Off I go.
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That's the stuff. Always look for opportunities to make the dream come true and always push towards the fulfilment of the dream. The American pastor, Dr. Vernon Johnson said during the Revolutionary War; "Be ashamed to die until you have done something good for mankind."
Good to know America has its own Dr. Johnson.
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