佳作欣赏：Follow Your Dream！(ZT)

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Follow Your Dream

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I have a friend named Monty Roberts who owns a horse ranch in San Ysidro.
He has let me use his house to put on fund-raising events to raise money
for youth at risk programs.
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The last time I was there he introduced me by saying, 'I want to tell you
why I let Jack use my house. It all goes back to a story about a young
/ J; U7 v- U$ Uman who was the son of an itinerant horse trainer who would go from stable
/ V: b3 W$ J( {* R, n2 D, R$ xto stable, race track to race track, farm to farm and ranch to ranch, training
horses. As a result, the boy's high school career was continually interrupted.
When he was a senior, he was asked to write a paper about what he wanted
, n8 S- J/ `1 `0 B: c) O! gto be and do when he grew up.

'That night he wrote a seven-page paper describing his goal of someday
9 ^1 |; Q: Y. X) l: T' n8 jowning a horse ranch. He wrote about his dream in great detail and he even
; U$ a- r) t! bdrew a diagram of a 200-acre ranch, showing the location of all the buildings,
the stables and the track. Then he drew a detailed floor plan for a 4,000-square-foot
% }2 n1 d  K' v2 B: H* m; whouse that would sit on a 200-acre dream ranch.

'He put a great deal of his heart into the project and the next day he
. {) X" |; v" ?. O& bhanded it in to his teacher. Two days later he received his paper back.
On the front page was a large red F with a note that read, `See me after
class.'

' e- f4 E) Y9 J'The boy with the dream went to see the teacher after class and asked,
`Why did I receive an F?'
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5 v% ^/ Y' n9 E, D'The teacher said, `This is an unrealistic dream for a young boy like you.
! e; G" h" L- PYou have no money. You come from an itinerant family. You have no resources.
+ R3 B  G) Q$ ~5 `! C! n5 MOwning a horse ranch requires a lot of money. You have to buy the land.
You have to pay for the original breeding stock and later you'll have to
. d4 e6 t( ?3 G& r4 dpay large stud fees. There's no way you could ever do it.’ Then the teacher
added, `If you will rewrite this paper with a more realistic goal, I will
reconsider your grade.’
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'The boy went home and thought about it long and hard. He asked his father
' h' S' w( x" ^  U9 J* Uwhat he should do. His father said, `Look, son, you have to make up your
8 h) c- Q! C! ^9 B' ]. Hown mind on this. However, I think it is a very important decision for
you.’
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'Finally, after sitting with it for a week, the boy turned in the same
: L& x+ A' }  p7 ~" |1 ?paper, making no changes at all. He stated, `You can keep the F and I'll
4 o  c( K% b6 G+ Dkeep my dream.''

Monty then turned to the assembled group and said, 'I tell you this story
* P4 [: T& U- k( _because you are sitting in my 4,000-square-foot house in the middle of
+ ]# l* l+ R* A6 j1 ^my 200-acre horse ranch. I still have that school paper framed over the
fireplace.' He added, 'The best part of the story is that two summers ago
# G0 B" u' C$ F7 I$ T% e' Ythat same schoolteacher brought 30 kids to camp out on my ranch for a week.'
When the teacher was leaving, he said, `Look, Monty, I can tell you this
now. When I was your teacher, I was something of a dream stealer. During
) O) s( _( {1 ?! C- U) Pthose years I stole a lot of kids’ dreams. Fortunately you had enough gumption
. ^3 q' y9 o8 s. q2 g! _/ `5 ^- \not to give up on yours.’'

Don't let anyone steal your dreams. Follow your heart, no matter what.

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