People · 1995
Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Isn’t that true?
— Amy Tan ‧ The Hundred Secret Senses
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Dreaming is framed as a basic human need, the thing that keeps hope alive. The speaker then turns it into a challenge: giving up on dreams amounts to admitting fate can't be changed. The closing question invites the listener to agree that hope and possibility depend on imagining.
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