Today I was reading the Sunday times article about Daring to Dream written by Lee Wei Ling, who is also MM's daughter. I always find her articles to be quite provocative at times and yet rather insightful as well. Well, there ain't many such articles that one can find in Singapore...haha..She was commenting on her dad's dreams for singapore and his visions. Apparently, during the 1980s, he was telling then one of our key strategic advisors, Dr Winsemius, that one day there will be a huge freshwater lakes in the Marina Bay area. And that in the near future, with possible advancements in technology, we will be able to make the waters clean and and drinkable and with the waters using for recreational purposes as well.
To say the truth, I am seriously quite impressed with this guy foresight and vision for something that might not even happen in the future. Most people have dreams, long term plans but only a small group of individuals are able to achieve this. Because they have the skills and strategies to plan and execute in the short run which many don't. Vision is one thing but execution is seriously another thing all together. Also, to convince people to subscribe to the idea is also a skill to have. After reading this article, I feel that having dreams/ambitions is not enough, the courage and skills and the power of the human mind has to be present as well to make the dreams a reality.
I think the ending portion the author made a small remark that the current generation may not be tough enough to be daring enough to go and pursue their dreams and that we cant take hardship. I feel that different generation have different views on hardship and yes I do have to agree that the younger ones are definitely aint as tough as the old guard. But I am sure that there will be capable and yet tough people of our generation to lead this country on into the future.
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