My Journey to the USA started as just a dream.

If you have ever had a dream put your hand up.

Let’s ponder on the meaning of the American Dream……

The year was 2002 when I traveled to the USA for my first time. I neither had a passport nor a visa. It was the shortest distance that I have ever moved. The speed on which we traveled was so fast that even the speed of light would be considered slower. No one can fathom it. No fastest thing can comprehend the speed on which we moved. It was the cheapest flight that I have ever taken in my life. It costed 0 cents only. I can’t remember the flying machine that I used. May be it was an airbus! 

I was fascinated by how experienced the pilot was. All the crew members were so smart (I mean smart upstairs in addition to being smartly dressed). I do not know how they could even tell of where we were because the sky looked the same wherever we were!!! I was still an infant to travel overseas alone (without my parents).

 It was only just a dream!!! (Sung Nelly). When I awoke from my dreams, I hoped that the dream would come to a reality someday. I did not know about the American dream then but the more I recalled my dream the more I would get thoughts of being in America. In 2012, I got a Ugandan passport; a travel document that would officially allow me get to my dream land (America).

In 2015, I got the opportunity to travel to America in the palm of my hands. You know what? I love doing what I can and can’t what I can’t. I tried my level best and excelled in all the interviews that I had to be involved in. As fate would have it I got the American visa and came here in February 2016.

I do not know what you believe in; Luck or karma. One thing that I know is that there is a God who turns dreams into realities. The one who knew you and me before we were in our mother’s womb. The one who knows the end from the beginning.

Dreaming has been and still is one of my greatest gifts. I have had night dreams and some times day dreams. Why are dreams always beautiful? The reality can also be beautiful only if our dreams are bigger than our fears. We should live our dreams other than dreaming our lives. Our faith ought to be stronger than our feelings. If we follow our dreams with grit, we will achieve whatever we focus our mind too.

Keep your hopes alive, stay better not bitter, keep dreaming and your dreams will turn into realities. Never let go of your dreams and as C.S Lewis put it,” you are never too old to set another goal or to dream another dream”. Let your heart make a wish today and follow the dreams as they know the way.