CONTEST: What's Your Biggest Dream in Life
Here is my entry for this week contest;
Dreams are imaginations of who you want to be or where you want to be. I believe everyone has a dream but what differentiate us is what dream seem pleasing to us, how far you can see and how big you can see.
My coach once told me "Dream five years from now". He calls it the five years fantasy. It doesn't mean it is limited to five years, it could be ten, twenty, fifty or even how elegant you want your burial to be. I would rationalize that dream is about seeing your future self in the present.
Now to my story... what is my biggest dream? I will share this and the reason behind it.
Right from my childhood I've always want to be an intellectual. There is this feeling in myself when I brag among my peers about what I know especially when it comes to academics. To hit the nail on the head, I dream to become a Professor. A Professor is is a person who holds the highest academic rank in a university. These people are known to be authorities in their disciplines. My childhood knowledge of them is that they know all. Professors are intellectuals, critics, researchers, writers, developers and honourables.
A model of such calibre that I know in my early days is Professor Wole Soyinka, the first African (Nigerian) to win a Nobel Price. He is a professor of Literature and he has so many written works to show for it. By stories, then I was told he has the authority to form English words and add them to the dictionary.
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In Nigeria, Soyinka was a Professor of Comparative literature (1975 to 1999) at the Obafemi Awolowo University. Wikipedia
The hardly erasable impact of people of this calibre motivates and excite me the more. My further exposure to the world of science even intensify the excitement. Imagine an intellectual who died centuries ago still present in my classroom telling me about his finding during his lifetime. This is a lifetime well spent, a life of impact to the world, a life dedicated to making the world a better place now and in the future.
Another well known notable scientist who made impact in the world is Isaac Newton, the second Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. Wikipedia
In 2019, I graduated from Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria with a degree in Physiology (basic medical science).
Physiology is one of the pillars on which Medicine and health sciences rest on. It is a very interesting field that studies how the human system function. I wish to pursue further studies, in line with my dream; best in a country with incredible advancement in science and technology so as to understand the frontiers of my discipline.
Out of the ocean of Physiology, areas of Neuroscience (Neurophysiology) caught my interest the most. The world now pays attention to every aspect of human health, including Mental Health which has Neurophysiology and psychology as its bedrock.
Here are pictures that shows my personal writings in my diary:
The peak would be to earn a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded for extraordinary contributions;
The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's 1895 will, are awarded "to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind”. wikipedia
Here are some of my writings that might interest you...
-https://steemit.com/science/@okunlolayk/the-gait-system-or-the-physiology-of-human-locomotion
https://steemit.com/physiology/@okunlolayk/why-do-we-sleep-part-1-the-physiology-of-sleep
https://steemit.com/physiology/@okunlolayk/why-do-we-sleep-part-2-or-the-circadian-regulation-of-sleep
... Just to mention a few
Conclusion
like I mentioned in the beginning, Dreams are Imaginations", they only become real when you do what it takes to birth them to reality.
Hence, Goodluck to Every Dreamer
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