Building Castles in the Air

24 Aug 2010 1 Comment

by sirtope in Uncategorized

This is not actually the exact time to post this essay but it just popped on my mind. I have written this almost six years ago in preparation for our high school graduation. And in fact, this my valedictory address. I am not bragging to be one, but I just realize it is worth to share. Although it is not exactly as it was written, but the thought is the same. Hope you like it!

Dream. It is for free. No one is restricted to do so. And everybody should not be deprived of doing so.

Through dreaming, we build our castles in the air. Castles that someday, maybe our sanctuary and the destination of our journey. A journey that is long and uneasy, ways and roads are unending, and the travel comes in the most rocky and slippery slope!

To dream is to build the blueprint of our future.  To dream is to find the path laid in the most complex way. And I dared to dream.

I dream of myself as a person worth to be praised not by anybody else but by myself also. I dream to be a good son to my parents, a good brother to my siblings, a good grandson to my grandparents, a good nephew to my aunties and uncles, a good student to my mentors, and still dreaming to be a good citizen of this state. This is my dream, so simple. And so I began to work for my dream. I go to school, I study well, I make my parents, my brothers and sisters, my relatives proud of me, and hopefully, made my mentors remember me whenever someone had mention my name.

To dream is to build castles in the air. And my castle in the air is huge. And I am grateful for my parents and family for building such a firm foundation of my castle. They are my inspiration; they are the foundation of my dream. With them, I started to dream and my parents never at once hindered what I am dreaming.

And now, I am dreaming for the success. I am dreaming for the success of my friends, my classmates and myself also. I am walking in the light of my dream and I know that this on the way to the castle that I build on the air. How difficult may the road will be, I have my family pushing me to continue my journey. I know that the mountain is high but I am halfway through and still moving forward. Little by little, I know that I am conquering it all!

To dream means to casts all the worries. It is just like carrying a spoon of oil while touring the garden of the palace. We often give emphasis on the spoon of oil, of not spilling them. And therefore, we miss to look at the beautiful sceneries in the palace, the beautiful paintings on the wall, and the person that surrounds us. We often look on our deficiency and we missed the point that we are gifted, that we are equipped and we are that perfect. We live in the fact that we are poor and we let ourselves in the mire and the fact that we should strive to work to change the situation.

And now, I therefore encourage everyone to dream. And at this moment, let us start building castles in the air.

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