Work For Your Dreams

In the news on March fourth, there was a story about a Russian professor, Igor Panarin, who is predicting the fall of the U.S. in 2010. He states that he has been here and what he saw was that the people have lost the American dream. I would go one step further and say that most people the world over have lost their dream.
In this time of economic hardship, it is easy to see how people lose their dreams. They see no hope. They are losing their jobs, their homes, and everything they worked for. The problem is, they lost their dreams a while back. When people have a dream, it usually includes bettering their lives. They make choices and work toward the object of their dream. They are not easily swayed by others. They are focused. In doing all this, they often make the lives of those around them better as well. In today's world it seems that most everyone is listening to anyone who seems to have a little power and taking what they say as gospel. People will hear what this professor Panarin says and believe him. After all, he is a professor, he must know what he's talking about. They will begin to think in terms of survival. They might begin to stock weapons and ammunition, knowing that professor Panarin can't be wrong. Their dreams are on hold in favor of reacting to someone else. We listen to the media, the politicians, and anyone who claims some form of power.
I am sure that professor Panarin and the leaders of his country would like nothing more than to see his prediction come true. Their own country is on the verge of collapse. The Soviet Union fell because their economy and their society failed. Communism may sound good, but when there is no hope of ever rising above the masses to find your dream because, by law, everyone must be on the same level, hope becomes lost. Russian began to prosper under the new regime when the USSR failed. Now, under the current government, democracy is being replaced by communism once again. The hope of finding and making dreams come true fails again.
Any country that has risen to any level of greatness did so because of dreams. Ordinary people dared to dream about being more than their position in society or their birth-right declared. They believed that they could be more and that life could be more.
Let's show them for the liars they are! Dream again. Work for your dreams. Not the dreams that someone hypes to you, causing you hardship and them fortune, but dreams that better you life and the lives of those around you. What makes any country, any culture great is having dreams of a better life and a better world and working for those dreams to come true. Find your dream again. Who cares what the economy looks like or what those in power are saying? Have the strength to look toward the horizon and see not storm clouds, but a beautiful sunrise full of promise; promise of dreams fulfilled.