My dream ended when I was born. Although I never knew it then, I just held on to something that would never come to pass. Dreams really do exist. But in the morning when you wake up, they are remembered just as a dream. That is what happened to me.
I always had the dream to dance like a beautiful ballerina twirling around and around and hearing people applaud for me. When I was young, I would twirl around and around in the fields of wildflowers that grew in my backyard.
I thought that if I twirled faster everything would disappear and I would wake up in a new place. Reality woke me up when I heard a voice saying, "I don't know why you bother trying to dance. Ballerinas are pretty, slender little girls. Besides, you don't have the talent to even be a ballerina." I remember how those words paralyzed every feeling in my body. I fell to the ground and wept for hours.
We lived in the country by a nearby lake. I did not like to be at home. When my parents were home, my mother just yelled and criticized because nothing was ever perfect in her life. She dreamed of a different life but she ended up living in the country far away from the city where she believed her dreams would have come true.
I enjoyed hanging out by the water. I would sit there for hours and stare at my reflection. There I was, looking nothing like a pretty ballerina dancer. Reflections don't lie. Once the waves would come, my reflection was gone. Washed away just like my dream to dance.
As I grew older, I began to realize that the reason my dream was even born, was because it was something that was inside of me. The dream I had was never nurtured and cared for, so it slowly died. It's not that I wanted it to die, but I allowed it to die the day I started listening to the words, "You can't do it." When I finally woke up from many years of dreaming, I realized that you can't settle for dancing in the wildflowers, you have to move on to the platform.
相关单词：applaud
applaud解释：vt.鼓掌欢迎，赞同；vi.鼓掌欢迎，欢呼
applaud例句：
The pupils that had been watching started to applaud.一直在一旁观看的小学生们开始鼓起掌来。
Please don't applaud until everyone has performed.请在每个人表演完毕后再鼓掌。
相关单词：slender
slender解释：adj.苗条的，修长的；微薄的，微弱的
slender例句：
Everybody of us admired her slender figure.我们人人都羡慕她的苗条身材。
The girl was pretty and slender.那姑娘长得美丽苗条。
相关单词：paralyzed
paralyzed解释：adj.瘫痪的
paralyzed例句：
He is paralyzed as the result of a would-be assassin's bullet years ago. 几年前有人对他行刺未遂，但子弹使他瘫痪了。
But the very imminence of the emergency paralyzed his invention. Good! 常言说得好，急中生智，可汤姆这回却束手无策，对，就这么办。
相关单词：yelled
yelled解释：v.叫喊，号叫，叫着说( yell的过去式和过去分词 )
yelled例句：
He yelled at the other driver. 他冲着另一位司机大叫。
The lost man yelled, hoping someone in the woods would hear him. 迷路的人大声喊着，希望林子里的人会听见。 来自《简明英汉词典》
相关单词：criticized
criticized解释：vt.批评(criticize的过去式)v.评论，批评( criticize的过去式和过去分词 )
criticized例句：
The decision was criticized by environmental groups. 这个决定受到了环保团体的批评。
The movie has been criticized for apparently legitimizing violence. 这部电影因明显地美化暴力而受到了指责。
相关单词：reflection
reflection解释：n.映象，倒影；反射；反映；非议；深思
reflection例句：
The reflection of the sun on the glass wall was blinding.玻璃墙上反射的太阳光令人目眩。
One can see the reflection of the tower in the water.塔的影子倒映在水中。
相关单词：reflections
reflections解释：反映( reflection的名词复数 )； （关于某课题的）思考； （声、光、热等的）反射； 映像
reflections例句：
Her eyebrows had the aspect of hills in spring, and her eyes -- reflections of an autumn stream. 眉似青山，眼如秋水
Since there are four reflections, the exiting image will be right-handed. 因为共有四次反射，出射的像将是右手座标系。
相关单词：nurtured
nurtured解释：养育( nurture的过去式和过去分词 )； 培育； 滋长； 助长
nurtured例句：
She is looking fondly at the plants he had nurtured. 她深情地看着他培育的植物。
Any latter-day Einstein would still be spotted and nurtured. 任何一个未来的爱因斯坦都会被发现并受到培养。
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