Manao, Rhean Grace M.

BSE-2A

Why Dreaming Big Is Not Always Good

(Reflection)

I dream big, but I’m not doing the things that could make it possible, that’s why, while
reading this, I feel so ashamed and I am disappointed with myself.
When he asked what is better, having the thought of being big or having a satisfaction
towards small things? I suddenly stopped and think deep about it.
When I was in elementary, I am very competitive, but I still can’t make it to the top because
we are poor and my family can’t afford my bills in joining some school activities, same when I
was in junior. In my last year of being a junior high student, I transferred school. Since then, I
already told myself not to compete anymore. I’m not doing my best, I don’t put effort on my
projects and such. Also when I’m in my senior high. But deep inside me I am so ambitious. I want
to be on the top. I want to be recognized. I want to be famous. But I can’t.
What’s the point about it? Its just that what’s with dreaming big if you’re not working on
it? But I accepted the result I got. Until I entered college, being a freshman. It worsen my thoughts
of not doing the best I can. The only thought that matters to me is to just pass the four years of
schooling in my chosen profession.
In the author’s case, I feel bad for him. The bad thing about him having a big dream is the
disappointment he got when he failed. It’s the bad thing about being ambitious. We are afraid to
become a failure. We are afraid to look pitiful because we failed. Aside from it, we can accept
even small failures. We always make it as a big deal.
When he said that having a big dream will make us overlook little things in success was
really true. Since we are dreaming big, we feel the thought of being admired and we can’t accept
any rejections which are not good for us.
But still, dreaming big is good, according to him. Only that we need to have a relationship
with failures and rejections. And I agree with it. We can still always dream big. Just like the saying
dream as long and as wide as we can because dreaming is one of the free thing in this world. But
of course we should work for it.
As I read this, I remember someone. That someone told us that he got to be so ambitious,
too. He always dream for a high things to happen. He said it’s better to have the thought like that
so when our dreams did not came true, there is at least something still going to happen, not as high
what we expected but better enough to be granted.