What's a Dream without a Struggle?

An interesteing question don't you think? What is a dream without a struggle- Let's break it down: what is a dream? what is a struggle?

According to my little handy dandy Oxford dictionary,
A dream is: 1) a series of images and feelings that occur in your mind while you are asleep. 2) A long-held ambition or ideal 3) informal A wonderful or perfect person or thing.
A struggle is: 1) make great effort to get free. 2)try hard to do something. 3) make your way with difficulty...

So a dream without a struggle is an ambition without the hard work. this leads to my next point, which is- if you DON'T struggle, you will never realise the dream or apreciate it when you finally reach the long-held ambition or ideal.

What if the struggle is really testing the limits? What is it's really pushing you over the edge? What if one more poke at the ribs will send you head first over the cliff and into the jaggered rocks and crashing waves.

This is what waiting for those bloody results feel like right now. I know they are a couple of days away, and I did what I could for the exams. What else could I possibly hope for?
Yeah, One more thing- A divine intervention!

We were watching Evan Almightly the other day (at the sleepover) and there were so many points of the movie that were really relavant. (you must be thinking, "C'mon, it's a freaking movie!" I'd say, "Movies are a reflection of life- just distorted")
The bits that struck me the most was that trials and challenges were a way that God shows us that he loves us. And when we pray for something, like peace, God doesn't give peace, he gives us the opportunity to choose peace.

I just thought that they were really good points. It brings about a sense of relief and comfort even. But with that, there is also a sense of doom. You can't help but wonder, is there any more to come? Will the big man upstairs put me through more than this?

This is the part where most people, certainly me, say, 'Just kill me already, get it over a done with!'

I am not a religious person, as compared to others. I do talk about God, but I am no saint. I do skip the rare services once in a blue moon (What's the point of going when you're gonna be tuned out?) I swear my arse off and sometimes, that actually scares me and if I want to, I can have the foulest mouth in the entire universe, saying the most hurtful things. I am no saint, but I believe that the Big man upstairs has got a plan of all of us, the contents- classified.

Sometimes I think the way he organises the universe is on a need-to-know organisation system. If you need to know, he'll tell you...no actually scratch that, he'll give you cryptic clues and you go figure.

At this point, you must be wondering why did I go from dreams and struggles to God. Well, my dear friends, I don't know, but I have a feeling they intertwine.