"Follow Your Dreams And Don't Let Anyone Stop You"

That's what they all say.

But did they actually do that?

Are we even able to do that? 

Follow our dreams and do whatever we wish to do?

What if we just wanted to travel the world? Going to many different countries consecutively? Do we need to get a job and earn a huge sum of money just to afford the cost of travelling to many different countries, and experiencing different lifestyles? Yet, when we finally earned enough money to sustain the travel fees, our hair has already turned grey, our forehead covered in wrinkles, bodies too weak to travel the world? Hadn't that effort of following your dreams gone to waste?

People could disagree with me, saying that not all effort would still result in failure. However, I feel that sometimes, life and the society is not allowing us to fully attain whatever that we wish for.

Last week, I had just finished a few examination papers for schools, with more coming up in a few weeks. Although I am still very young, and I have much to learn and experience, I am starting to get tired of school, and all the work that I have to go through. I am getting so many projects and assignments with no breather in between, and I feel very suffocated. School is preventing me from doing whatever that I like, and whatever that I wish to do. Every day, I come home from school at 7 in the evening, and I would be too exhausted at night to do anything. During the weekends, the only thing that I do is homework. Homework, and more homework. I cannot go out and have fun with my friends, or even take a walk and get some fresh air. I am just cooped up at home, doing work. 

But isn't that how life is? The only way of possibly having a good life in the later years is to study and get good grades. After that, we are then able to get a good job with high pay. We would finally be able to live in comfort, and we would have enough money to get anything that we need in order to enjoy whatever activities that we like, or just sustaining ourselves after we retire to enjoy life.

I wished life could be more simple. Being able to live life as you wish to live it. Being able to do whatever you want without difficulty. 

But reality is not like this.

I am not trying to demoralise anyone or trying to tell anyone to not chase after their dreams. I myself am trying to chase after my own dreams, and I am also working hard at doing that. I am just wishing that things could have been different. Not needing to have so many restrictions while trying to attain your dreams and wishes.

I am trying to make my wish come true, and I hope that you are trying too!

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Album of the Week:

Super Junior D&E (Donghae & Eunhyuk) - The Beat Goes On 

Genre: Ballad, Dance

So I had recently decided to check out this album, and I have been listening to it these past few weeks :) There are 6 songs in this album, and the songs are mostly upbeat (with the exception for the last ballad song). 

It is not an album where you would instantly like the moment you first hear it, but it grows onto you as you listen to it more and more :)

Do listen to it if you wish to!

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Pictures of the Week: 

 

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See you next week!

~Baethxr