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A New Year's resolution
Think positive and dream big
Happy New Year, everyone!
A teacher once told me that our cells stop growing and begin to die when we reach 18. Okay, so this is the third year my cells have been dying. Here we are, another year older, with more cells dying and more cells dead.
But since we can’t stop our cells from dying, why don’t we think positive? Okay, one more time: Here we are, another year wiser, another year more mature, with more unwanted cells eliminated, and more unwanted cells on the way to be eliminated.
This is the last issue of Varsity for the current editing staff, but instead of saying, “We are finished ”— as in “We are dead” — I’ll say, “We have finished!”
This issue of Varsity is about dreams, about people who hold on to their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt, renowned wife of former U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, once said, “The future belongs to those who see the beauty of dreams.”
But sadly, as Ellen Loo of the local pop group At 17 pointed out, few people have dreams nowadays. A dreamer is seen as a loser who just sits there and dreams, instead of someone with great visions of the future. Since when did dreaming become a bad thing?
Dreams are strange things. They can be constructive or destructive, and it depends on the person who dreams. You can dream your life away, or you can live your dreams. That’s your choice.
To me, the greatest thing in life is that we are allowed to dream our dreams. Many great things all started with a little dream.
Think about all that we have today — automobiles, jumbo jets, movies, mobile phones. Weren’t all these once great dreams of people before us? I can’t imagine where we’d all be today if Martin Luther King or Mother Teresa didn’t hold on to their dreams.
“I have a dream. . . .” Perhaps that’s the first step we should all take to make this world a better place.
Do not underestimate the power of dreams, because we never know what dreams may become reality.
So here’s my New Year’s resolution: Think positive and dream big.
And instead of just saying goodbye to you all, I’ll say, “See you soon!”
Because who knows? With dreams, there are indefinite possibilities.
Penelope Yau
Assistant Managing Editor