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[잉그리드 전주살이] Dreams Come True?


기사 작성:  전주대 교수 - 2014.05.01 20:03
When I was in grade one in elementary school I was asked to produce my first dream in art. I drew a picture of me with long hair, playing a guitar and singing. I eventually had waist long hair for some years and I have a guitar I play badly because I don’t practice enough. As for the singing ? I have entered contests in Korea and won a couple second places and managed to get into the contests in the first place. I was even on the foreigner singing contest on KBS years ago. So I am not a professional singer. Let’s be honest ? almost every professional singer is thin and beautiful. I wasn’t actually able to keep my weight down ? giving up food and being on a permanent diet was something I wasn’t willing to do so I made an adjustment. Now I am queen of the singing room and go there with friends or by myself. Do I feel bad? Am I a failure? I don’t think I am. Being a singer is not the only dream I have and I never gave myself a deadline. I am not dead yet, I could still become a professional. I still think about having one hit and I know how I want to do it. OST. Yes, I want to have a hit song on a soundtrack. And I might be able to do it because I have more than one dream.

When I first came to Jeonju, I often heard the phrase “Dreams come true!” Well, yes, sometimes. It depends on many things. The size of the dream. Talent, hard work, more hard work, luck, dedication, more work. Acceptance of failure and the willingness to keep trying. Work and, wait for it, work. And sometimes your dreams still don’t come true. I studied ballet from elementary school. I had some talent and wanted to study more. But nature conspired against me as much as she helped. I had grace, balance and then I grew too tall, had feet too big (280 cm) and inherited my father’s large bone structure instead of my mother’s tiny size. I would need a sumo wrestler for a partner to lift me. That dream wasn’t going to come true. Adjustment. I learned volleyball and all those gifts I had in ballet were useful for volleyball ? jumping, gracefulness at the net, spinning. Yes, I made the volleyball team, even got an MVP award the year we won first place. I thought ? Olympic team! Then I stopped growing. I was tall enough for a university team but not the national. Another dream bites the dust. You can’t control everything. Actually, you can control very little. But you can adjust (change) your dreams. And there is nothing wrong with that.

I have more than one talent. Everyone does. You can’t depend on one thing. You need many dreams. If you only have one, then what happens when your dream doesn’t come true? You have little victories but there is a limit to how much room there is at the top. All this pushing to be the best and anything else is failure is wrong. Or, on the other, if your dream does come true, then what? You still need something else to do. You shouldn’t judge or allow others to judge you by your ability to succeed in some dream.

And dreams are sometimes disappointing. One of my dreams was to be a radio announcer. I succeeded. For two and a half years I was a professional radio announcer and…I was bored. The dream came true and it was disappointing. So I made another adjustment. Went back to university, got a Master’s degree so I could teach. I was going to use my talents to coach volleyball, teach English literature and direct the school musical. Instead I ended up in Jeonju playing volleyball, learning coaching techniques from a former professional player, teaching English as I did when I was a child to my mother, and singing in contests and the singing rooms. Not the life I envisioned as a child. And where are the children I thought I would have? Well, you know what? Those kids I didn’t have from my body are from my soul. They are you and every student I have ever taught. I am happy even though I didn’t get all of my big dreams. And the one I have left, about one hit song? I will continue writing, and when one of my novels becomes a movie, I want to sing one of the songs on the soundtrack. I need to keep working on dreams and so do you. Always be ready to adjust. It’s a good thing.

/전주대 교수

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