Dreaming and Thinking

Jamie,
The class before the last class, the class was talking about what the students in Never Let Me Go wanted to be when they were older. Some wanted to be actors and some wanted to work at supermarkets. But Miss Lucy told them, “Your lives are set out for you. You’ll become adults, then before you’re old, before you’re even middle-aged, you’ll start to donate your vital organs. That’s what each of you was created to do,” (Ishiguro 81). Someone then raised the question why they were thinking of become these things when they knew they were going to die, and you said something along the lines, “People always dream of doing something even though it is most likely impossible. I dream of being the world’s richest woman but it probably won’t happen. Even though people dream of impossible things, they still do it.” I thought about this after you said it and I agree with you. I started to think of why people dream of things that are most likely impossible. My first thoughts were that it helps people set goals in life and it gives them hope. But it wasn’t until the final minutes of our final class when I was talking with Jason and telling him what I got out of taking this course when I thought of probably the best reason why people may dream of things that are improbable.
What I got out of taking this class that I think is most important is to THINK about everything that is presented to you. Things may have more than one meaning behind it and that if you look deeper into things past what is visible or obvious, there may be more important, hidden, and new messages. When people dream of things that may be impossible, they are thinking of something that is usually difficult to obtain but may be achievable by certain methods. These methods could be common or the person may be THINKING of new methods to reach an improbable dream. They may be thinking outside of the box to obtain that dream, and I think this ties directly to what we did in this course, which is to think outside the box with certain texts, look more in depth at things, and be creative. Thinking outside the box and thinking of new ideas is what progresses the world’s technology and helps the world become a better place. Thinking outside the box to obtain unlikeable dreams, even though plenty have been obtained, teaches people to think critically about everything and to think about everything more in depth. By looking at things more critically and more in depth, it definitely teaches people to be more open about people’s own ideas and to understand how and/or why someone reached a conclusion that you may not have thought. By doing this, you may start to think of other possible conclusions and how to arrive to those conclusions by a different thought process. In the end, you may even think that this new conclusion is better than your original conclusion. In conclusion, THINKING develops new things, allows a person to understand others’ points of view, and allows a person to see things more in depth.