Are you following your dreams? Flashcards
utopia
perfect, ideal society where everyone is happy and gets along with each other.
are two people who decided to follow their childhood dreams. They wanted the world to become a utopia – a perfect, ideal society where everyone is happy and gets along with each other. … made their dreams come true – not by changing the world, but by changing themselves.
When I was a boy, I wanted to be a fireman when I grew up. How about you, Beth? Did you have any childhood dreams? I wanted to be an astronaut and fly to the Moon… When we’re young most of us have big dreams and plans for the future. Unfortunately, as we grow up these childhood dreams often get lost in the adult world of jobs, money, families and careers. But not for everyone…
struggle with (something)
find it difficult to accept or even think about (something).
What I think I always believed in is that the sharing of resources can provide a group of people with quite a great advantage, but it doesn’t matter how many hours you work or what work you do, everyone is getting the same amount. And that is something that many people outside of Riverside struggle with, and where we’re often getting this ‘communism’ label attached to us, because it’s so… it seems so outlandish for people.
Riverside isn’t a communist community. In fact, people with many different political views live there. But Daisy says that local people struggle with the idea that everything is shared. If you struggle with an idea, you find it difficult to accept or think about it.
outlandish
strange, unusual and difficult to like.
The adjective, outlandish, means strange and unusual.
And that is something that many people outside of Riverside struggle with, and where we’re often getting this ‘communism’ label attached to us, because it’s so… it seems so outlandish for people.
Daisy also says some local people call Riverside outlandish – strange and unusual.
conquer
control something by force.
I am so happy with the Herman there is now, that I know now – not the one who wanted to conquer the world, but the one who was conquered by the world.
I learn so much from people, and it’s amazing how the more you meet people, the more you know stories, how much more humble you become because you notice that you are a beautiful, tiny piece of sand, but a very important piece of sand like everyone is, right?
After many years travelling, meeting new people and hearing their stories, Herman is more humble – not proud or arrogant. He no longer wants to conquer the world – to control it by force; rather, he has been conquered by his experiences.
humble
not proud or arrogant.
After many years travelling, meeting new people and hearing their stories, Herman is more humble – not proud or arrogant. He no longer wants to conquer the world – to control it by force; rather, he has been conquered by his experiences.
how much more humble you become because you notice that you are a beautiful, tiny piece of sand, but a very important piece of sand like everyone is, right?
a grain of sand
small and insignificant, yet at the same time important, part of a whole.
the phrase a grain of sand describes something which is both insignificant yet somehow important.
Herman compares himself to a beautiful but tiny piece of sand and uses the phrase a grain of sand to describe things which are insignificant in themselves, but at the same time are an important part of the whole.
… how much more humble you become because you notice that you are a beautiful, tiny piece of sand, but a very important piece of sand like everyone is, right?
