Why Dreams Fail

I think dreams almost always fail. I don’t know exactly why but I think it’s a combination of many things. One reason why dreams fail I think is because the dreamers have too high expectations. Sometimes dreamers have dreams that are too far out of their reach. A lot of times, dreamers dream of things that are way beyond them because they want a change and they want some big positive change in their life. For instance, all of the workers on the ranch have had dreams similar to Lennie and George and that is a huge dream and a huge reach. From the ranchers to become landowners is a huge jump so it is very hard for them to make the jump successfully. Most times dreamers create dreams knowing that they’re just dreams and will never come true so therefore they never actually dream seriously because they know the dreams are not supposed to come true. For instance, if Lennie and George dream to have a large chunk of land and they go into it knowing that it will never happen, they would not work hard to try to get money to buy their dream. This is another reason why dreams fail. Dreams also sometimes fail because the dreamers might not have the means to follow their dreams. For instance, before Lennie and George met Candy, they did not have nearly enough money to buy their dream so they thought of their dream more as an unreachable dream. But then when they met Candy, he provided the economic means to make their dream a near possibility. It is sad that dreams fail as much as they do but I think that is why they are called dreams. They are called dreams because they are no more than dreams for the future and they are not realistic or really possible. I think that George and Lennie’s dream is now more of a future plan than a dream because it is really likely to happen in the near future.