Different pictures

It's a picture of a date, of a event what comes to you mind when you try to describe what happened to you or how you spent a date, a day, a vacation.
Sometimes, there are no pictures. Not a single picture for a whole day, or even for a whole week.
There is a picture I cannot forget more than a fortnight. A picture of a girl, a girl around 18, who I met on a educational fair. Her name, old clothes, and vision doesn't matter- it's not her look I resemble- it is the feeling around her. And the feeling was struggle. The cruellest and at the same time not obtrusive struggle. The wish for success, but not success at any price. Maybe this girl reminds me of the girl I once was. Or maybe it was the wish of change what impressed me the most. I hope she will choose the right way to improve herself. And hope she will not lose her faith in her and in the world.
But, looking at my friends, I see different picture ( I am sorry, no offence). I see a picture of lost dreams, as in a famous Russian song "wrecks of feelings" and the explanation am searching for is WHY. Who or what made us like this? What made us stop dreaming? Lack of work and absolute apathy to the wrecks of education in Bulgaria? Lack of money? Lack of love? Lack of luck? Surely not the last two, because I love all of my friends and we're lucky to have each other. I think it's lack of smiles- we didn't learn to smile at our problems and do not pay attention on job, educational or financial obstacles. We lost our desire of actually being somebody within the worries of the small or huge problems we have to cope with every day.
Some of us still have dreams (well, maybe different from what we dreamed for 5 years ago). So lets make them reality....... or at least try :)