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reamers are achievers: they are the famous artists,
the physicians, great engineers, influential writers and scientists, who above
all things continue to transform the world on daily basis. They are the ones
people want to emulate; those we so much long to live their lives. But sadly,
dreamers’ lives echo with hollowness – a constant restlessness governs them
from the inside: a bugging restlessness to achieve more; to cap their
achievements which very often need capping; to prevent falling off the radar.
Dreams have a bad habit of becoming less important
once a dreamer has achieved them. Thus, the dreamer – having a desire to surmount
higher dreams – delves into a realm where he seldom finds rescue, in order to achieve
these dreams which sooner become useless in his sight. For instance, a man may
dream of owning an expensive car, but as soon as he buys this car of his dream,
it becomes useless in his sight after a period of time, and he dares to acquire
a more expensive car which will also become valueless in his sight as soon as
he acquires it.
With these continuous likes for fancier dreams and
dislikes for them once the dreamers achieve them, combined with this
intoxicating quest to achieve higher and more tasking dreams, the dreamer – no
doubt – rises to an astronomical height in his dream pathway. But it must be
noted that while those below him idolize and admire his stellar achievements,
he loathes what he has become, because his achievements have become meaningless
in his sight.
So while we aspire to live the lives of the
dreamers, we must be forewarned that it’s suicidal in a skeletal way. Dreamers have
a crazy insatiability; they are workaholics, because they must work with either
their physical strength or mental capability or both to achieve their set
goals; their dazzling facades mask these accumulated layers of fear which make
them heavy with guilt of not achieving enough and a consequential fall from the
stellar height they presently stand.
Because of this constant desire to achieve a fit;
because of this internal quest which drives them like demons, coupled with the
heartbreaks which come with failures to achieve some certain dreams, dreamers
are generally unhappy; they are generally unfulfilled. Sometimes, this curse
cast upon them to dream and achieve, drives them to commit suicide or become
demented with drugs or become depressed. When people who only view their
beautiful outsides see them this way, they ask themselves: “Why did they commit
suicide when they have achieved everything?”
Ohikhuare Isuku,
Ibadan, Nigeria.
Twitter: @ohikhuare_isuku
Ibadan, Nigeria.
Twitter: @ohikhuare_isuku
