Light a Fire under Me

This is a presentation for my oral English lesson:

Before I came to the college, I dreamed of being a lawyer. But my parents told me it was hard to be a good lawyer in China. So I chose economics as my major.

 

In the first two years of my college, economics interests me and then studying it aboard and being an economist became my dream.

 

But later I met a girl who I had fallen in love with for the next two years. I thought maybe it was necessary to go working and earn some money after graduation, so I would give the girl a nice future and live with her quietly and happily.

 

As now I’m standing here telling my story,you must have realized I changed my mind again.

 

You know what they say,” Things change, people change.”

 

You may think maybe we change just because we know better about the world and ourselves. It makes sense. When we were young, we didn’t know what was interesting and what our favor was. So it’s possible for us to have some you may call daydreams and we change them days later.

 

But is that all? Do we change our dreams just because we know better and know more? If just for this reason, I think maybe today I should have some better dream which is quiet appropriate for me and inspires me to do something I like, something once I think of, passion and joy would fill my body ,push me to keep working and bring me a satisfactory life.

 

But when I stopped my step of life and asked myself “what’s my dream now?” I disappointed to myself. There’s no answer.

 

I don’t have any dream today. Yes, maybe I will work in an investment bank and earn some money for my lover, give myself a nice future. But that’s not the thing we call dream. It’s just the life of others. It’s just what everybody around me wants to do or will do. But they don’t enjoy such life.

 

At that moment, I realized I lost my dream and the direction of my life. It seemed that my future and the whole life totally depended on the others, like my parents, my lover, my classmates or even the whole society, but not me, though I make the decision. I change just because of the others.

 

At that moment, I realize I must take back my life with a dream.

With this dream, I hold my life in my own hands;

With this dream, every morning I open my eyes feeling excited;

With this dream, every day I know exactly what I am doing and what my purpose is;

With this dream, every night when I fall asleep I know I am becoming a better man and I deserve a better life.

 

Luckily, finally I got my dream. It doesn’t matter what my dream is. But it matters whether or not you have such a dream and work hard for it. So why not give yourself a moment to think about it, to think about your own life? Just for yourself.

For better life.