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If I shared my dreams with the world

Carrie
23 May 2019

If I shared my dreams with the world

If I shared my dreams with the world I would want ‘I’ to become ‘we’ so no one would ever be lonely, we would capture every happy memory in slow motion and we could revisit and share that moment whenever we want, we would simply just know how precious the gift of life is from the day we entered this world so we can make every moment count. We wouldn’t have to of lived and learnt sorrow and sadness we would simply understand without words. We would be filled with warmth from the sunshine, sunrises and sunsets would fill our skies for eternity. We would love each other with more passion possible. We would live in a world filled with laughter; we would smell the sweetest of flowers and taste the most scrumptious of foods. Every dream would be a fairy tale and every wish would come true. We would sing sentences and fly like birds with wings. We would travel the seas and walk the lands of time. We would float on clouds filled with castles and mermaids will swim our seas, unicorns would take us on journeys across our skies. No one would have known the world at war, people would not tell lies, and the world would be at peace. Every voice would be heard, no-one would ever suffer, we would have no pain and tears would only ever exist in happiness. We would only know peace and harmony for eternity. Angels would sit amongst us and every one would be equal, we would all sit on thrones and wear royal crowns because only princes and princesses would exist. Fairies would sprinkle fairy dust. Snowflakes would fall every Christmas time and Santa Claus would be real so every child would enjoy the fairy tale gift at Christmas. The world as we know it would be for eternity.

Time is precious and unfortunately our time on this planet is short, we need to make our dreams count, we need to love one another and share kindness for the future of our generations and their generations of generations to live in a world filled with peace, laughter and happiness and pray for a world that one day means all our dreams come true.

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