6 Minute English / Are you following your dreams?

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Hello. This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I m Neil.

And I m Beth.

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

Daisy, from New Zealand, and, Herman, from Argentina 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. In this programme, we ll be hearing how Daisy and Herman made their dreams come true not by changing the world, but by changing themselves. And, as usual, we ll be learning some new vocabulary too.

But before that I have a question for you, Beth. Following your dreams can be tough, but not following them can leave you regretting all the things you wanted to do but didn t. In 2012, Australian nurse, Bronnie Ware, wrote her bestselling book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, after interviewing terminally ill patients about their life regrets. So, what do you think their top regret was? Was it:

a) I wish I hadn t worked so hard?b) I wish I had followed my dreams? orc) I wish I d made more money?

Well, I ll guess it s b) they wish they had followed their dreams.