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Created: 27th March 2007
Talking Point: Unfulfilled Dreams
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Mt Everest has become a symbol for fulfilling a dream or an ambition.
I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it.
— Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy, On the Waterfront (1954)

Whether its John Betjeman wishing he'd 'had more sex' or Woody Allen saying his 'one regret in life is that I am not someone else', we all of us have dreams and many of them go unfulfilled. Today we're asking:

  • What are your unfulfilled dreams?

  • What do you dream of doing one day? Can anyone help you do this?

  • Do you lack the confidence to 'dare to dream'?

  • Does openly talking about your dreams bring you closer to them?

  • Or do you talk the talk but rarely walk the walk?

  • Are we made to feel like we're 'under-achieving' by the ad men?

  • Maybe we're living the dream already but don't realise it?

  • Are you dreaming the right dream? For instance, a lot of 'celebs' find out retrospectively that they might not have been dreaming the right dream for them after all.

  • Are some dreams better left unfulfilled?

  • Have you achieved all of your dreams?



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