The Power of Dreams

Monty Roberts was in high school. His class teacher asked him to write a page on what he wanted to be when he grew up. Monty invested his whole night and wrote an essay of seven pages on his dream, ‘A horse ranch in 200 acres’. He described every detail with a map, plan for the whole 200 acres along with a 4000 square foot house. The next day he submitted the paper of his dream.

Despite his hard work he received an ‘F’ with a note, ‘See me after class’. He approached the class teacher. She yelled at hiom, ‘This is an unrealistic goal. Look at yourself, your family’s economic status and llok at this goal. Unrealistic and impossible. I will give you another day’s time, think again, change your dream, come back and I will reconsider your grade.’ Monty firmly replied, ‘You keep the ‘F’ and I will keep my dream’, and walked out.

Years rolled by. The teacher along with 25 students had been to a horse ranch as a part of their field trip. Somebody came up to her and wished her. The teacher realised it was Monty Roberts. ‘Oh, Monty! Nice to see you! Are you working here?’

Monty smiled and replied, ‘No, Madam, I own this.’

His words sent a chill down the teacher’s spine. There were tears in her eyes as she said quietly, ‘Oh, Monty, throughout my life I was a dream-stealer. You had a dream, held on to your dream so strong that it is reality now.’

So dream, dream and dream. Hold on to your dreams. Keep your dream big. Make your dream exciting. Define your dream in detail. And most importantly, hold on to your dream so tightly, don’t let any dream-stealer steal away your dream.