My Dreams and My Goals in Life
I believe that every human was born with a dream. At least, a dream which their parents want their children to be something. And when every kid grew up, they’ve seen many fabulous thing that they want, someday, they want it to be theirs. I think, that is when the dreams come from.
When I was a little kid, I had many big dreams which I think it will be irrational to be considered based upon my condition right now as a teenager. I dreamed to be an F1 racer, because I used to be told by my father that Ferrari is cool. Then I also read about go-kart’s stuff which made me feel much more interested. But that are just an ordinary dream as a kid, and I didn’t have any interest of that anymore.
Since I entered school (Elementary School) and I was introduced to the English language in 3rd grade, I became interested. English is the first foreign language for me at that time. And people in my country believe that English is a kind of “cool” language. Every movie speaks English (for foreign movie). And they also quoted, “if you can master English, you can go abroad and travel around the world…wherever you wanna go”.
In that time, I became very interested to learn another language beside my local languages in Indonesia. I thought that was unique. Learning different language and learning different people is kind of interesting. So I asked my mom to register me into a language course.
At first she refused. She thought that taking a course is a lot of money to spend. It is yet expensive. And we are not from a wealthy family that can get anything easily. I was disappointed at that time. Very disappointed. I was not big enough to understand about my family. I just feel I can’t get everything easily from my mom. I need to study hard and achieve something before I get what I want. That is what my mom always taught me.
Then, I had good news. I had a neighbor who just came back from Australia to learn English or to do some business which I didn’t really know. And then my neighbor was going to open a little school in his home to teach kids some English.
That plan was being talked about among my neighborhood in my residence. After that, my mom was getting interested and she signed me up to join with other kids to learn English.
I was so happy at that time. I can’t wait to go to my teacher’s house which is officially my English school. I went there twice a week. At first I was the only student in my class but after a few weeks the other kids come. We learned English together and having fun with it.
I love my English teacher. He always pushed us to speak rather than giving confusing grammar although we studied about that too. After a certain level of learning English with him, he usually held a test: oral and writing test. It usually held in the end of every three or four months. Oral test is frightening for many students, included me. But after learning there for some years, I considered oral test as the most important and the most exciting part after all.
I did learn English for six years with my teacher until I finished the advance level when I was in Middle School. And in that time, I strongly believed that someday I wanted to go to another country to use my English and later become an English teacher or lecture in my country. That was my dream when I was in Middle School.
Then, in my first year of High School, I made a target or resolution in New Year. The first prior target is going abroad. I knew that was impossible at that time, considering that my family was having financial problems and there’s no reason for me to go outside the country since I was still a student of High School. But I believe that Les Brown ever said in his quote, “Shoot the moon…even if you miss, you’ll land in the stars”. I believe that it is not wrong to put the target as high as we can.
Just some months after I entered High School, there was a selection for students to go to Singapore in Sunburst Youth Camp at my school. Of course I tried it because I thought this is my chance to go to another country. Finally I’ve been chosen by my school with my debate mate to go to National selection.
But at that time, I and my debate mate was still new student from High School, I mean…a kind of freshmen. And the other contestants were really good and talented. Of course, well, we failed. The tests was freaking hard. But I was not fully disappointed with myself, because not only the test was so hard, but also I got some friends from all part of the Nation there. I met new people, new talented people with hope and dreams, just like me. So I decided not to be so sad and frustrated but be spirit and keep up on everything I’ve got. I believe, that was just a warming up for me. I believe, someday there will be another chance for me.
After that, in the second year, I joined the AFS (American Field Service) exchange study program, just to give another shot to my target. And after 1 year selection, eventually I was chosen to go to United States and I got a full scholarship for a year program. At first, I was happy, of course, just like I’ve won a competition. But later, I can’t describe my happiness. Not because I won something, but because I just make my first prior and the most sort of impossible target becomes true. The target that I’ve made in the 1st day of January in 2007 before I watched the Spiderman movie (I even remember what I did that day).
The most important thing I learned about dreams are you can be whatever you want if you commit to yourself that you won’t stop learning. And my goal in life is, learn…learn….and learn until I find what this world want me to be. To me, I just want to make this world a better place in the right path. “Never stop walking, although you have to drag your face and the road eventually may fork”, that’s the thing I really want to do right now. Learning, and learning, until I find what the real meaning of this life is. ***
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