A light in the darkness

 This composition is inspired by Langston Hughes's poem " Dreams. " I have not read his poems much but this one made me a fan of him. Hold fast to dreams where life begins beyond realms experimenting with themes until something comes out like a beam. Hold fast to dreams where creativity plays the mime giving birth to new rhyme which is way ahead of time. Hold fast to dreams where our life beams overflowing with streams of love, joy, & happy themes. ©water2025 This post is a part of  Blogchatter Half Marathon 2025

I have discussed with you all our means of using addiction as a way of hiding from our inner selves. There, I mentioned the other three agents: ambition, arrogance, and anxiety. In this post, I will connect dreams to ambitions and how they act as a hiding niche for me and you.  Let me start this discussion by distinguishing between dream and ambition. Dreams, as defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, are a strongly desired goal or purpose. So we dream to become something; we dream to achieve a goal; we dream to be big. This is the first stage of creativity or achievement. A dream alone cannot become real. We need to take intentional actions in the direction of fulfilling our dreams, and then only we can see it happen. Terri Kozlowaski sums it up like this: Dream +  Ambition  = Reality There is no harm in dreaming big. In fact, sometimes we should dream big to achieve big. The real game begins when we choose the kind of ambition to achieve it. Bandura (1993) , a Canadi...