What is your Nigerian dream?
Dreams are successions of images, ideas, emotions,
and sensations that occur involuntarily or voluntarily in the mind.
A dream is an intensity
that burns in the soul.
Dreams
are seeds for future harvest.
Somehow we
all have created a dream of what we want to achieve in life and maybe like me
places we want to journey to before we die. It is beautiful to burn with
passion for a personal dream because it drives and compels you. It gives life
meaning.
But beyond
our personal dreams what are our collective dreams? That dream that unites us and
creates a common vision and goal. A dream that breaks language, cultural,
religious and racial barriers. A dream that builds nations and sustain
generations. United we stand, divided we fall!
I strongly
believe to build our nation we must have a common dream of who we hope to be
and what we want to attain. We must have a Nigeria dream, a Nigerian ethos or
idea. My question is, what is the Nigerian dream?
Leaning from
America, we understand the importance of having a dream. The American Dream is
rooted in the United States
Declaration of Independence which proclaims that "all men are created
equal" and that they are "endowed by their Creator with
certain inalienable Rights" including "Life, Liberty and the pursuit
of Happiness."
James
Truslow Adams in 1931 defined the American dream, "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with
opportunity for each according to ability or achievement regardless of social class or circumstances
of birth.”
I ask again,
what is your Nigerian dream? You can share that dream here.
Finally, I
leave you with a quote from Bishop David Oyedepo:
Success
and outcomes are predictable and today will not be different from tomorrow if we
keep doing the same things. We are made or marred by our choices and one of the
choices we must make today is to be deliberate about painting the right
pictures. As seeds are to the farmer so also are dreams to realities. You
cannot feature in a future you do not picture.
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Wow! nice one and thought provoking. Is a pity we don't any collective dream in Nigeria.
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