GOALS AND DREAMS by Tracey Jones, Age 16

Dreams satisfy for an instant; plans for a day; accomplishments for eternity.

Dreams are the essence of life -- man's goals and desires. These visions are stored in the mind, enabling man to seek out the answers to his questions.

A soul. willing to be patient, a mind ready to be worked, and a spirit striving to be successful are needed to unlock those secrets. Happy are those who pay the price to make dreams come true. Inspired by God, these mysterious jewels can extend to distant horizons and beyond to the cosmos. New frontiers must be conquered and it is the human nature to seek out and overcome these conquests.

The fine line between these commitments and becoming hopelessly obsessed with them is in getting things into perspective. However much achieving the goal means, one must constantly look at things as a whole by keeping in touch with reality. This is perhaps the hardest part, for many men have faltered here. Do not be the man who is all composed of ideas and does not have the will to make them materialize.

Dreams motivate the self, while achievements motivate the world. Remember that plans and material action are as important as the idea itself. For what good doeth a man with airy hopes only, never stooping to bring his head out of the clouds.

Dreams can reach ultimate heights, but be wary of the man who becomes lazy and unrealistic, for there is a man who will fade in the shadows. When he becomes aged, he will gaze over his life. If he has left his dreams unfulfilled by not planning and activating himself, he will sink into a sea of depression. The thing that matters is that feeling of accomplishment and realizing that you have gotten what you have sought.

If a man succeeds in accomplishing his goals, he must not look back at the world to boast, for they will see what he has and seek it by craving some of his glory.

Beware, also, of being self-centered, for through stepping on others, a man will fall and be cursed for it.

Take time to plan things out in a workable pattern. Keep that dream within your mind's grasp so as not to become disappointed or discouraged.

Dreams may liberate the mind, and plans the body; but accomplishments will liberate the soul to move freely on to bigger and brighter things.