“ Never lose the Vision of Reality ”

Good afternoon Ladies and gentlemen. My topic today is “ Never lose the Vision of Reality. ” Talking about dreams and future, I would say, dreams should never be too far away from reality. Detaching from reality, lacking solid or practical actions, any future plan or dream project will be nothing short of daydreaming, or, at most, well-intentioned thinking.
Here I am reminded the year of 2000, when 191 member states of the United Nations held a World Summit Conference, which made a declaration known as the Millennium Development Goals. The goals of 2015, which every member state pledged to meet, were such as, elimination of hunger and poverty, drastic reduction in child mortality rates, reversing a spread of AIDS and other deady disease,etc. Now, six years later, almost half way to the final year of 2015, do we see any signs of realizing these goals? Today, half the world – about three billion people, still live under two U.S. dollars a day; about 250 million children have no access to safe water, 11 million children die before they reach the age of five each year. Do we come to harness the spread of AIDS ? The answer is also “ No ” – and indeed AIDS is spreading faster and wider than ever before.
What is even worse, with the make of the Lraqi War, the nuclear crisis in Lran and unsetled sitations in many places, the visions of us young people today are aften limited-but the limited vision( that) we do have and care about every day cnnot change the conviction that this world does not seem to promise a very bright future before us. Who is to blame for all this? Of courese we can blame governments: - how they…disappointing they all seem to be: in one moment they are pleding to build a better future for us, and the other moment they’re igniting wars, killing more innocent people.
But don’t you think we ordinary folks should also take some responsibilities for, say, elimination of hunger and poverty? When we are quickly rushing to schools, works, or places of entertainment, how many times do we stop just to hand over some food to the deprived on the streets? When we are reading newspaper, browsing for news about what is going on in this world, how often do we stop to think about actual ways that we can do to help the people who’re suffering from various disastrous situations? In fact, how much have we done to help the people who are in need just around us?
Dreams are cartainly beautiful and indispensable in our life, for they give us inspiration and motivation. Future plans are cartainly necessary, for they provide us with goals and guides. But what is most beautiful…..and … important is an action an a day-to-day busis. In order to realize our dreams or make our future goals realized, we need to put our words into deeds and base our vision on reality. In other words, while human beings should be, first and foremost, idealists and thinker, we should also be, and all the more, realists and practical doers.Thank you.
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