Pascal Nunes

Paulo Coelho is a remarkable author. If there is one thing that he tries to convince his readers, it is to follow their dreams. He says that we like to believe that we never had the opportunity to follow our dreams. When we do get the chance to pursue many don't. We just like to believe that life could be much better, but rarely are ready to run the risks to fulfil that dream. Why do we love this dream world so much?

Probably because it does not show the entire picture. We see things the way we want. I recently watched the "Matrix". It is my favourite movie. Many people never wanted to come out of the dream world. When we dream we do not see the challenges and difficulties along the way. You have thought of all the difficulties? Well I am sure not. Why? Because real life does not go as you want. Something or someone will perform some action that will hinder your plan. You see yourself doing things rightly and succeeding . But this does not always happen. You may have overseen a small detail. Someone may foolishly do something have hampers your job.If you dream of going somewhere, you may see yourself parking your vehical at the destination. You rarely see that you get caught up in trafic, the parking lot is full, that someone moves in from the wrong direction and takes the last place available. I am not saying all, but something like this may occur. At this moment although nothing much has changed in your dream, you start feeling that life is not as good as you would like it to be.

But look carefully and you will realise that you did make it to your destination, and there is no reason to feel bad about. Just look back a little, you will find a hundred thing that you thought of and managed to do. So rather than holding onto things that you could not do, hold on to memories of deeds that you performed. It will make you feel a lot better.