Behold, the Dreamer Cometh! by Sister Gwen Shaw
But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him. "Here comes that dreamer!" they said to each other. "Come now, let's kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we'll see what comes of his dreams." (Genesis 37:18-20)
The world resents a "dreamer." They hated Joseph because he saw wonderful 有點ahead of him, and he had faith that God would make all his dreams come to pass.
It was Joseph's dreams that got him into trouble, and it was his understanding of dreams that got him out of trouble and elevated him to Viceroy of Egypt.
It takes courage to be a dreamer, because a dreamer has to go against the conventional, the status quo, the systems of man and the rules of society. He has to believe for what no one else has ever even thought of. He is a revolutionary, a rebel, a dissident, and because he is so different, the world sometimes thinks he is insane.
A dreamer doesn't give up easily. In fact, he usually NEVER give up. He keeps on trying and trying until he either succeeds, or dies in the attempt. Only success or death can stop a real dreamer.