I've dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years

Hear the youthful yet eternal words of Ariana Grande: “I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.” In this simple declaration lies the story of a life shaped by vision from its earliest days, a life that reveals the power of dreams planted in childhood and carried, like a torch, through the storms of time. She speaks not only for herself, but for all who feel the fire of calling long before they understand its cost or its reward.

To dream at the age of three or four is to glimpse destiny before the world has hardened one’s heart. At that age, the soul is still tender, still uncorrupted by fear or doubt. For Ariana, it was the sound of music that called her, whispering into her earliest years like a promise. The child does not calculate fame or wealth; she only feels the pull of joy. That is why such early dreams are so powerful—they are pure, born not of ambition but of instinct, the deep knowledge of what the soul was made to do.

History is filled with those whose lives testify to this truth. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, even as a boy of four, touched the keys of the harpsichord with mastery beyond his years. His father recognized the spark and fanned it into flame, and from that tender age Mozart’s life became inseparable from music. Like Ariana, he was not shaped into a musician later in life—he was born into it, his earliest dreams already aligned with his fate. Their stories remind us that the seed of greatness often appears in childhood, waiting to be nurtured.

Yet such early visions are not without trial. To carry a dream from childhood into adulthood is to protect it against doubt, discouragement, and distraction. Many abandon their earliest loves as the world teaches them fear, practicality, or compromise. But Ariana’s words reveal a different path: she guarded her dream of music, kept it alive, and worked until it became reality. This perseverance is the difference between fantasy and destiny—holding onto the child’s vision with the strength of an adult’s will.

The deeper meaning of her words is this: the soul often knows its path before the mind does. The dreams of childhood are not to be dismissed as naïve but listened to as sacred whispers. Too often, we forget what we once longed for when the world was still wide and our spirits unbroken. Ariana’s testimony is a call to remember, to return to the earliest fires that lit our hearts, for they may yet be the truest guides to who we are meant to be.

Consider also the lesson of Thomas Edison, who as a boy loved to tinker and experiment. Though teachers saw him as difficult and unteachable, he followed his curiosity, the dream of invention alive even in his youth. That child’s persistence gave the world the electric light and changed history. Edison, Mozart, Ariana—all stand as witnesses that the dreams of youth can become the triumphs of adulthood if they are not forgotten.

So, O children of tomorrow, heed Ariana’s words. Look back to your own earliest years. What set your heart aflame? What vision stirred you before the world told you it was impossible? Hold onto it, nurture it, and walk toward it daily. For the dreams planted in the dawn of life are not accidents—they are the seeds of your destiny. Protect them, pursue them, and like Ariana, you too may see them blossom into song, into triumph, into the fulfillment of the purpose for which you were born.