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Personal Reflection

There’s a quiet ache that creeps in when a dream dies — not always dramatic, not always loud. Sometimes it’s just a silence where hope used to be. A stillness where movement once was.

And yet, Langston Hughes doesn’t romanticize the dream. He warns us.
A dream isn’t just inspiration — it’s survival. It’s flight. It’s the direction we point ourselves toward when everything else stops making sense.

But here’s the hard part: holding fast isn’t passive.
It’s active.
It’s holding when your grip is slipping, when your fingers are bloodied, when logic tells you to let go.
It’s believing you still have wings, even when they’re broken.

Dreams don’t always survive untouched.
But sometimes holding fast doesn’t save the dream — it saves you.

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Reflective Prompt

What dream have you been tempted to give up on — and what part of your soul still clings to it?