Sunday, August 14, 2011

[Life]

There is something very magical and surreal about life. When we are working through our lives, hardly having any time, we fail to realize the purpose and promise it holds.


In the fog of life, where we are welcomed to this world through our parents, we find siblings, and meet new friends, rarely do we acknowledge the true purpose of living a life. 

A life is lived for the dreams we envision for it. A life is not lived for the objects of possession. Though objects make our lives convenient, they don't necessarily provide us the path or give us a clue as to where our next step will come from.


When this fog of life gets thick, we stumble, cower, even question our dreams and their futility as the reality strikes us. The idealism of youth of capturing the sky, gives way to daily grind of meeting a milestone, delivering products and contributing to the society. 


Stop for a moment now to consider how did that innocent dream got transformed into milestones, products and contributions. It doesn't mean that milestones, products and contributions are bad. They are the effect of the steps taken by you when you walked towards your dreams, wanting to make a difference.


That innocent dream of flying in the air made you become an airline pilot, it was the best thing you could do. Surely, you were flying, you were with the sky and the planets were nearer to you than anyone else on the earth. 

Your dream, like a guide, held your hand and walked you through a maze of decisions, terms and logic that you didn't understand to start with, and transformed what you wanted into something in this reality around us. 

Some left their dreams, citing reality as a reason, others modified it to suit themselves. There were some, working at that dream, not for some award or incentive but for the sheer joy of realizing it someday. 

They didn't care about the odds, they didn't listen to the reasons this world threw at them. They just worked at their dreams, night and day. There was also another thing about working towards your dreams.


If someone realized his or her childhood dream and we couldn't, even if stranger, we empathized with them and felt as if we realized our dreams. Perhaps in our moment of reconciliation when the twilight was waiting for us, with our quivering lips, offered a prayer for that person's cause and realization.

You can be the person who realizes your childhood dream or you can be the person who reconciles when all is said and done. It's never late to start dreaming and never too late to start acting on them. One advice.


Dream big, because it will make those milestones, products and contributions more overarching and have positive influence on the society.


And when the twilight awaits you, in your very defining moment, say those prayers, as a dream achiever and as a person who empathized with the one. In that moment you will be the union of both those spirits.

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