Ryogen
Yamada

The Transition of My Dreams

I have had specific dreams as many people have. However; my dreams have been changing because of frustration and a whim. I felt strong disappointed whenever I abandoned any dream. Now, I am introducing the transition of my dreams and their reasons.

In my childhood, my first dream was to be a professional baseball player, because I thought they were cool, could make lots of money, and could have good reputation. It might be natural that I aspired to be a professional baseball player as many children do so. I did my best in my elementary school, junior high school, and high school to achieve this dream. However, I realize the limitation of my ability of baseball, and I gave up to be a professional baseball player. After the activity of the baseball club in the high school, I was loosing my dream for a while. However, I met the next dream by accident after then.

When I visited my friend house, I was very impressed by the beauty of the house. Soon, I knew his father was architect. His father saw me around the inside of the house and his atelier. As I felt strongly that I wanted to design this kind of house, I promised his farther that I would be an architect. After then, I studied hard to be an architect, and thanks to this efforts, I was accepted by four universities. However, I couldn't decide the best one. I was given some advice to make a choice, and I concluded that I chose one university, but the university didn't have the department of architecture. I thought of the fame of the university as more important than my dream to be an architect. To say the truth, the biggest reason was the university was very popular to girls. This is how my dream to be an architect ended up too much soon.

Just after I entered the university, I decided to be a scientist. Nevertheless, I also gave up this dream very quickly because it was very difficult to understand physics completely. I spent almost all the time in the university without any dream, but I would have unmet experience that made me decide my next dream for my future. That was Whistler. When I visited Whistler in Canada for the first time, I was so impressed that I strongly hoped to have my house and live in Whistler. I also thought how I could accomplish this, and I concluded that I had to be enough rich to buy a house there. Moreover, I thought if I lived in Whistler I would have to speak English. That is why, I thought a MBA of a famous university in Canada would be useful to attain this dream.

And now, I am studying business at BCIT for the first step to be promoted to a business school in Canada. Although I will have lots of hardship in the proceed of attaining this dream, I think every hardship will be my good experience and fortune. Finally, when I attain this dream, I will praise myself because most people can not attain their own dream.

March 2000