追夢

CHASING AFTER YOUR DREAM

Dreams! How nice do they sound? I am not talking about the dreams we have when we are asleep but about the life long aspirations in each one of us. I am sure many or rather should I say all of us have goals in our lives. It could be the goal to be the next millionaire or to be a popular celebrity. Even if your goal is something small, you should be proud that you do have a goal.

Some never tend to think about goals in life. Although this may sound as a surprise it is true. These people take life as it comes without planning and go with the flow of events in their life. But again there are many who love planning for everything in their life.

In fact, having a goal in life would make anyone more focused and determined in reaching that target. Wish to get a job as a web designer? Your dream can come true if you work on your dream. How, you might ask? Start learning web-designing skills and when you’re skilled, you will find that you can get your desired job easily. So, do you see that all it takes for your goals to materialize is some work on your part? I have often heard some grumble that their dreams are just dreams and can never become true. Well, it all depends on what kind of goals you’re aiming at. If you’re dying to be the next star in Hollywood but you’re camera-shy and you don’t know anything about acting, your dream to make it big in Hollywood might remain as a dream. But if you’re very determined to make it and you’re already enrolling yourself in acting classes and talking to experienced actors about acting, you can be pretty sure that you’re already half-way there to make your dream into a reality. After all, if one is willing to put in the efforts, their goals can become within reach.

So never say that your dream will forever be a dream. Go ahead, plan on making that dream a reality and watch how easily you can attain that target.

Good luck.

【助讀詞匯】

◇aspiration n. 渴望，熱望

◇celebrity n. 名聲，名人

◇materialize v. 實現

◇grumble n. 怨言，滿腹牢騷

【參考譯文】

追夢

夢啊！聽起來有美？我這里說的不是我們睡覺時做的夢，而是指我償每個人心中一生的渴望。我肯定很多人，或者說每個人，都有自己的人生目標。這個目標也許是成為下個百萬富翁，也許是成為炙手可熱的名人。即使你的目標很小，你也該因為自己有目標而感到自豪。

有些人從來不考慮生活目標。也許這聽起來有點意外，但這是真的。這種人的生活沒有計劃，順其自然，隨著生活中發生的事走。但另外很多人則把生活里的每件事都安排得周周到到。

事實上，擁有一個目標可以使人更專注更堅定地去實現它。想做網頁設計師嗎？只要你朝你的夢想努力，它就可以實現。你也許會問：怎么實現？開始學習網頁設計的技術，當你技術熟練后，你就會發現得到夢想的工作并不難。現在你明白了嗎？要實現你的目標你就要作出一些努力。我經常聽有人報怨說他們的夢想只是一個夢，從來就不可能會實現。當然，還要看你的目標是什么。如果你想成為好萊塢下個明星都想瘋了，但是你在鏡頭面前害羞，對演戲一竅不通，那么你想在好萊塢混出頭的夢想只能是個夢。但是如果你下決心要實現它，而且還報名參加表演班的學習，跟有經驗的演員討教如何演戲，那么你很有可能正在實現夢想的路上。說到底，只要一個人愿意努力，他們就有可能實現自己的目標。

所以不要說你的夢想永遠都只是個夢。行動起來，列出實現夢想的計劃，你就會發現達成目標多么的容易。

祝你好運。

【人生啟迪】

人人都有夢想，可為什么不是每個人都能美夢成真呢？答案很簡單，因為不是每個人都行動了。不論你想實現夢想的意愿多么強烈，不論你一天重復憧憬多少次，除非你開始行動，不然你的夢想永遠的只能是夢而已。