Harlem by Langston Hughes reminds me of the challenge in life to never get distracted by the everyday living of the world and forget your true purpose. When I was young dreams were always so grandiose. I believed anything can be possible, but what many people don't realize is the path from where you are now to how your gonna get to that dream. When your young the future looks so far away and planning really isn't ingrained into your head as it would be as you age. I had many dreams in my life all separate from each other one for example was wanting to be as big as Arnold Schwarzenegger. When I was young I was an overweight child and I always felt like I would never be able to make any progress when trying to lose weight. I expected to look like him …show more content…
When that didn't happen I shortly gave up because I thought I just wasn't good enough to be that big. As I learned more about my goal though I realized he didn't accomplish it in a day either. It took him years of going to the gym twice a day to look like that. I knew now that if I wanted to look like that I would have to put the work in. Thats when I started seeing results and overtime I got distracted from my goal I just thought of how I wanted to look, the end result is the ultimate motivation while on the path to get there.
Hughes wonders in the poem what happens to a dream deferred and I often think about the same thing. My constant argument in my head everyday is what will happen to me in the future. Will I be where I want to be in my life with the ideal job the perfect family and all around established person? The answer is within its self because just like how I thought when I started my dream to become the size Arnold Schwarzenegger I needed to realize that it's not going to happen in a day. my problem is i know what it feels like to have a dream deferred while i was in high school my focus was no longer on my dreams it was on