The dream is like a star. maybe we never touch it, but if we follow it, then it will take us to a beautiful place. Reflect on yourself about the past and the future, because your current self is a picture of the past while what you are doing today is a picture of the future.
When God gives you an established financial endowment, do not raise your standard of living but raise your standards in giving. Failing it was a painful blow as well as a bitter reality to be received with a lump of lectern. But if we learn from the bitter fail, then the sweetness of success will be closer...