Nurture your dreams
New dreams are fragile because we haven’t had time yet to let them grow or develop. When a seedling oak is only a year old, a child can tear it out by the roots, but once it’s had some time to become firmly established, even a hurricane can’t knock it down. Young dreams are also more easily shot down because if they are attacked, it is usually by close confidants, because they’re the only people who know about them.
Our hopes and desires may be able to weather the criticism of a stranger, but they have a more difficult time surviving when undermined by a friend.