(Note: I should include a video file to make things clearer, but I can’t find a video featuring the part I want.)
Recently I got into watching “Glee”, a TV show about high school kids in a performing group. The club is initially very unpopular and its members are the misfits who get bullied by the football jocks and the cheerleaders. Their teacher-adviser is a former Glee Club member himself, and at first he’s very enthusiastic about passing the baton on. Then his wife tells him she’s pregnant and he decides to give up his teaching job for an accountancy job, which is what he’s actually trained in.
When he breaks the news to his students, they’re naturally quite hurt and ask him how he could turn his back on his dreams and their dreams just like that. He replies that “being an adult means having to make difficult choices. Sometimes you have to give up the things that you love.” He gave up on his dreams because he thought he had to go and earn more money to make a happier life for his family. Noble? Sure. But I didn’t agree with him, because I don’t see the point of having a more materially comfortable life if you have to lose your dreams. It’s like being dead inside.
Later on in the show, his colleague digs up an old tape of his team’s winning performance from 15 years ago, and he realises that no matter what, he can’t give up on his students and their dreams. So he stays on in his teaching job (which he really enjoys) and thinks up some other way to earn the money he needs.
The question this episode poses: Is it more painful to live with fewer material comforts, or to live without your dreams? Every time this question arises, I think of only one person: Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad Poor Dad. Before he became wealthy, he was so broke that he lived in his car with his wife for three weeks. Material comforts can be regained once lost, but dreams can never be regained.
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