Doris picked her pen to jot down things she will be doing as far as the future is concerned.
If wishes were horses everyone would have rode on one.
It was on a hot Saturday afternoon during my service year.
When decisions began to fly up and down in the room where I sat on my small six spring bed mattress with my hands on my chic.
I watched my dear Doris draft out her things just like she will want it to be after our service year.
Sam, please take a look at this and tell me what you feel about it.
I reluctantly collected her jotter to glance through what she had written down.
I could tell that someone is dreaming with her eyes wide open as I read through the content it wrote;
I would like to have a store filled with cosmetics that will be rated one of the biggest after my service year.
“While I am working on that my wedding will also be in progress” I read that aloud and Doris mentioned hope you will be at my wedding? I smiled at that question then I came to realize that Doris and I are just friends with benefits.
It was a nice time spent while serving the nation as we both are not in our hometown but a strange land that needs a good head to survive there.
Why I said it needs a good head to survive is because I understand the language of the place we serve but Doris doesn't and on the other hand Doris is financially buoyant than I am, so in one way or the other we both need each other.
So, I smiled and answered “Yes” to her question,
If I will be at her wedding?
“I would like to have a poultry farm with thousands of birds in it and be one of the major suppliers of both birds and eggs in the whole of my state.”
Hmmm!!! I exclaimed trying to figure out what my life will look like as this dream is too exorbitant for me to even think of.
“While on with the poultry farm I will establish a good saloon, employ people who will be working for me.”
I smiled at that dream and handed over the jotter to her, all these things you want to achieve? Aren't they much why not pick one out of them and make it happen?
I suggested, knowing fully what the economy of my country is like and coupled to the fact that I studied it while in school.
I won't say anything because Doris' parents are wealthy so with their financial status they might assist her to achieve these dreams of her’s.
My parents are still struggling and the finances are barely enough to sort out some of the problems so if I am to dream now it has to be with my jurisdiction. I dare not do it beyond what I know.
Out of all that Doris wrote, the only one that has a high tendency of being accomplished is the poultry stuff and that's because Doris Mum is a poultry farmer.
So the knowledge acquired from her mum's farm can help her boost and make it happen fast but like all other dreams, Their tendency is as low as someone with a low sugar level.
Fast forward to the present day. That's about 4 years now after our service year.
The last time I spoke to Doris she was discussing flying out of the country in search of a Job.
I didn't bother asking her about her dreams because the conversation clearly told me that all of those dreams are just dreams written on a paper and I believe that paper can not be found now and so the dreams left with the paper that's a typical example of Daydreaming.
Like I earlier said, the economy of my country places restrictions on some dreams even the normal dream takes extraordinary effort to achieve them not to talk of some exquisite and expensive dreams piled up to be achieved on a goal.