Dreams! A word that is defined as 'A series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep'. Important to recall is the mention that dreams happen only when one is sleeping.
What about the times one is sitting and conjures up images of what the future would be like? Is that not a dream?
Dream it is, as the thought is still not tangible, is very fragile, and is still lingering on the outskirts of your thoughts, trying to live on in your imaginations, trying to imbibe in itself the breath of life. The tangibility of life that can be its, if and only if, you are ready to take the plunge to bring it to life.
It is not easy to give birth to a dream; it requires hard-work, grit and determination to birth a dream. Endless, sleepless nights of toil, of days which claim an application of self till there is nothing left to apply, of time lost which you will never regain.
These are the risks one has to own and subjugate if one has to attain a dream.
Many of us often dream of one thing or the other in our lives; maybe a better person, a better boss, a better son/ daughter/mother, or may be a simple dream of living as you.
Dream we all do, but instead of trying to work towards achieving that one dream which keeps us awake, we try and justify the reasons for non-attempts.... and whom do we justify.. to our own self... an excuse - As soon as I am done with this project, a justification - What will my family think?.
Why does everything else become important than that one dream which does not let us sleep?
Is it because we would rather smother our own desires, aspirations to live a life that has been chosen, thrust upon us. Or is it because it is easier to live that life than to fight against it... to try and make the people around you realize that what you aspire for is not that strange.
It is all this and much more. Human beings are social animals and love to be praised and appreciated by the general public at large. Some of us are bitten by a bug, which unfortunately forces us to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. When everything seems to be going okay for them, these poor souls just land themselves into situations which demand that they give their 'much in demand' advise, which obviously no body wants, but these guys have to give it and since they are the once doling out the advise so freely, they generally are the ones ensuring the implementation of the same.
Hehe!!! Easier said than done. So, out go their dreams and in comes the responsibility of wise words.
There are some of the human species who can never say No to anyone, especially if the person asking for the request is from the immediate family or friends. And since saying a simple word 'NO' is soooo difficult, you have to pay the price.
The price is your time, resources, energy being spent on tasks you never had and never will ever have any intention of doing if you had the guts to say No.
Thus, suffice it to say that given the species that we belong to, where from the birth we are taught about the survival of all and not the fittest, we keep on sacrificing our dreams at the behest of the dreams of another.
Maybe, one day the dreamers would have the nerve to achieve their dreams. Till that day comes, let me say, quoting the words of Rabindra Nath Tagore
Open thy mind walk alone
Be not afraid, walk alone
What about the times one is sitting and conjures up images of what the future would be like? Is that not a dream?
Dream it is, as the thought is still not tangible, is very fragile, and is still lingering on the outskirts of your thoughts, trying to live on in your imaginations, trying to imbibe in itself the breath of life. The tangibility of life that can be its, if and only if, you are ready to take the plunge to bring it to life.
It is not easy to give birth to a dream; it requires hard-work, grit and determination to birth a dream. Endless, sleepless nights of toil, of days which claim an application of self till there is nothing left to apply, of time lost which you will never regain.
These are the risks one has to own and subjugate if one has to attain a dream.
Many of us often dream of one thing or the other in our lives; maybe a better person, a better boss, a better son/ daughter/mother, or may be a simple dream of living as you.
Dream we all do, but instead of trying to work towards achieving that one dream which keeps us awake, we try and justify the reasons for non-attempts.... and whom do we justify.. to our own self... an excuse - As soon as I am done with this project, a justification - What will my family think?.
Why does everything else become important than that one dream which does not let us sleep?
Is it because we would rather smother our own desires, aspirations to live a life that has been chosen, thrust upon us. Or is it because it is easier to live that life than to fight against it... to try and make the people around you realize that what you aspire for is not that strange.
It is all this and much more. Human beings are social animals and love to be praised and appreciated by the general public at large. Some of us are bitten by a bug, which unfortunately forces us to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. When everything seems to be going okay for them, these poor souls just land themselves into situations which demand that they give their 'much in demand' advise, which obviously no body wants, but these guys have to give it and since they are the once doling out the advise so freely, they generally are the ones ensuring the implementation of the same.
Hehe!!! Easier said than done. So, out go their dreams and in comes the responsibility of wise words.
There are some of the human species who can never say No to anyone, especially if the person asking for the request is from the immediate family or friends. And since saying a simple word 'NO' is soooo difficult, you have to pay the price.
The price is your time, resources, energy being spent on tasks you never had and never will ever have any intention of doing if you had the guts to say No.
Thus, suffice it to say that given the species that we belong to, where from the birth we are taught about the survival of all and not the fittest, we keep on sacrificing our dreams at the behest of the dreams of another.
Maybe, one day the dreamers would have the nerve to achieve their dreams. Till that day comes, let me say, quoting the words of Rabindra Nath Tagore
Open thy mind walk alone
Be not afraid, walk alone
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