You have to have a dream or you go nowhere.

You have to have a dream or you go nowhere. Initially, I heard this sentence from my father. He was a great man who would share with me his life experiences, his pains and gains, his ups and downs. From young, I have enjoyed hearing his stories, stories not about those fairy tales that most parents would tell their kids. However, I was unlike the average child. With slightly above average mature thinking, I preferred hearing materialistic events and happenings, such as religions, superstition, and so on.

Having heard many real life stories about successful men and women and how they started from a nobody to a somebody, I was nonetheless inspired to be one of them one day. Only determination, luck, skill, and hard work I knew would be my stepping stones. There would be no one-way path for anyone. Having said so much, I did not make and plans or attempted to follow in my father's or their footsteps.

Influenced by friends and fellow gamers, the vines of gaming addiction strangled me. Results plunged into a black hole. Day by day, week by week, it was hard. Hard and tedious, tedious and energy absorbing, to be able to catch up with the mountain of homework. However hard i tried to climb out, I continued to slip into the bottomless pit and continued falling and falling.

"Why was I falling?" I thought to myself. I did not have a dream, an aim, a target, nor a destination. I had not decided what I really wanted for myself.

One day, I pondered. Pondering in peace allowed me to be in a world of my own. With no
obstructions and disruptions, I was finally able to have silence, not thinking of the fun and thrills from gaming, not thinking of the stress from the homework. I wanted to have a good life, and in this practical world, money was the key to all the chests and boxes. And to acquire this magical thing called money, working towards my goal was the right way to walk.

Now I am, an accomplished man. Famous throughout Singapore. A rich man whom most people aspire to be. Once aspiring, now to be aspired. Many have asked how I manage to reach the top. I answered, "The stepping stones are always there. It is up to you whether you want to run or walk. Even if you fail off the flight of stairs, they will still be there for you to go back on. You have to have a dream or you go nowhere. My dream was to get the pot of gold at the end of the stairs. It is your choice."

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