259 Dreams Build the Future

“Dreams Build the Future”

Dreams won’t feed a hungry stomach.
With this kind of thinking,
Why have dreams during youth?

“I want to be a doctor.” Or an artist, a teacher, a thinker.
“I’ve got a new thing in mind—it’s going to be so cool!”
“Everyone’s going to love it when we make this happen!”
This is the stuff to fill the discourse of youth.

It’s no good to always dismiss a young person’s ideas,
Just as it’s no good to always snip off a new blossom.
In youth is the energy to push forward to a new future,
The energy of free living, free thinking, free expression.

Those things that cannot be realized today
Will become realities in the decades and centuries that come.
Not in one giant leap,
But through new wisdom and insights
Gained by continuous innovation in technology and thinking.

Soichiro Honda, founder of the world-renowned Honda company,
Had a dream and made it real.
The first motorcycle he designed and sold
Was called, fittingly, the “Honda Dream.”