A worthless person
This is Kawaguchi Hidetoshi. This is my humble answer to the question.
Certainly, it is natural to have dreams and hopes in the world, and it is considered correct and wonderful, but the problem is the content.
Well, I think there are many dreams and hopes in the world in general that usually satisfy desires and complacency. Simply put, it involves making money, gaining status, honor, fame, power, etc.
However, if I were to be able to get them, I wonder if I could really be happy... well, I don't think the suffering of hesitation will change that much.
Certainly, civilization has progressed, life has become convenient and comfortable, and at first glance, it has become a rich world/society, and there is a huge difference between when Shakyamuni explained his teachings and now, but after all, I think it can be said that the hesitation and suffering of people's hearts hasn't changed much from when Shakyamuni was alive.
Anyway, assuming that true happiness cannot be found in the eight laws of the world (gain, loss, praise, blame, honor, slander, ease, suffering), and that true happiness, in other words, leading to enlightenment and nirvana in Buddhism is necessary to become truly happy, Shakyamuni explained the path for that.
Of course, there is no complete denial of what the world says about dreams, hopes, and happiness, but in any case, they are nothing but things like morning dew, fragile and ephemeral, and Buddhism preaches that we should not get too caught up in such things.
This time, worthless people were able to have a “sense of separation,” which is really difficult to obtain, and they wanted to practice Buddhism; this is a truly precious “Bodhi Heart.” Also, it is precisely because we lose and suffer that we can understand other things that are lost and suffered as if they were our own, and this leads to “compassion.”
Then, if it comes down to “Three Treasures,” then you can become a person who truly walks Buddhism with all four signatures.
If a worthless person thinks they can't practice Buddhism unless they become a monk, that's different. Those who learn and practice Buddhism by aligning the above four time signatures are those who walk the path of Buddhism. I hope you can continue to learn and practice Buddhism little by little, no matter what kind of job or position you are in, even if you are at home and get married or give birth. I'm sure you'll be able to see the purpose beyond that.
Kawaguchi Hidetoshi Gassho