spring is for dreaming and making dreams come true

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When you were little did you have dreams – and did you ever try to make them come true? I wanted to be a dentist when I was starting school (until I went to a dentist with a cavity and developed a fear of dentists), then Miss Universe so I could have a glimmering feather-covered fantasy dress (until I realized that Finnish “national costume” was made out of ten layers of plain linen and I’d probably get my dress only if I joined the samba club), and so my dreams kept changing…

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The longest dream I ever held was to to compete in the Olympic Games: I gave years for that pursuit, moved to America to train near the Olympic venue, but it all came to nothing much else but a bunch of injuries that I still suffer from. I did go those games, but sadly only as a spectator. So i tried and failed, and that dream died.

There has been smaller dreams since – some of which I’ve reached, others that I never tried pursuing, but sometimes think that I should have, or even wondering if I still could.

So I concluded that I should now re-assess my dreams, little and bit bigger ones – and try to make some of them reality. And why not? We’ll see what comes out of that but hopefully I’ll have at least fun trying…

Anyway, the reason why I started thinking about dreams though was because I stumbled across this set of photos of Miss Anaïs. They were taken in California where she did Chinese Dance in the Xiaopei Chinese Dance School some three and a half years ago. She loved performing and Chinese dance was really beautiful for the spectators too – a combination of graceful choreography, mystical music and beautiful outfits.

XiaopeiDance-3 Anaïs never dreamed of becoming a Chinese dancer and even if she did, it wasn’t really possible for her to chase that dream as we moved to China and she couldn’t continue dancing there (ironic, isn’t it, but in China these dancers are trained in their own institutes and it really is a full-time career from a young age…) and here in UK it would have required lots of time and effort to travel to London to join the local group, so it wasn’t meant to be.

Even if a dream doesn’t come reality it doesn’t mean that pursuing – or trying out was for nothing: in Anaïs case she gained great experiences from Chinese dancing, new friends, reinforcement for the fact that she loves sports – and most importantly,  good memories that will last a lifetime.  Then she chose new hobbies and dreamed of new dreams like children do…

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One of my long-lasting, sort of “everyday” dream is to be able to raise children who will be happy with their lives, go and chase their dreams, do not easily give up when they face challenged and who will make a positive contribution to the society. Now that our eldest has expressed a desire to chase one of the dreams, we are supporting her efforts to live it out – and if it works out, great for her – but if not, then there is plenty of time to dream new dreams and try again…

Today we dreamed of seeing the solar eclipse, the only one in Britain in 10 years but it was so foggy and cloudy that there was nothing to see. Ironically now, a few hours later the sun is out in full force…That was a little dream gone there, but not it’s time to enjoy this beautiful spring day and dream on new things to come…

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