Dreams, endless dreams!
Hello Fellas J
What is the success mantra of those people whom you have always aspired to be? What is it that they always advise others to do? It is something that Rhonda Byrne, Steve Jobs, Robin Sharma and the likes say in common.
Common’ on guess, it’s not difficult! Okay, the clue words
are – heart, follow, dream. Yes, bang on! They always say – ‘Follow your heart
and your dream will come true’. But none of them has ever said anything about
identifying ‘the dream’ from ‘many dreams’. Isn't it the first and the most
crucial step? How does one really do it? I mean, I want to be so many things starting
from astronaut, actor, dancer, doctor, environmentalist, painter etc etc.
I am in absolute awe of people who make these kinds of
decisions early in life. I wonder how they narrow down on options at an early
stage about what they would be doing their whole life! I have tried endless
things, taken formal courses too but I found my calling in something else. After
all, one needs to give some credit to ‘chance’ for important discoveries.
It’s so well said, that formal education ruins it all! The
rat race is so blindly followed that we never give ourselves a chance to hear
what the heart has to say. I would like to quote a line from Elizabeth
Gilbert’s novel – Eat. Pray. Love. It’s so true and so aptly described!
“That’s the thing
about human life – there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us
would have turned out if any variables had been changed.”
Hasn't the number of career switches gone up lately? And people
are actually leading happier and more satisfying lives. So, it’s just a matter
of time you identify ‘the dream’. Time needed for that may be in the hands of destiny
but allowing yourself one chance to pursue it is totally in your hands.
Absolutely true dear...Children these days follow their parents dream and donot let their heart decide as to what they want to become one day..pathetic situation
ReplyDeleteVery nicely written. Good thought. It forced me to think about the Shopping Styles of people. Well sometimes, a purchase is made after a lot of thinking, analysis, evaluations, and comparisons; and sometimes, you see something put on the display as you walk by the shop, you cannot resist, you go inside the shop and say, 'Give me THAT!'. Happens with me many times.
ReplyDeleteIts about 'clicking' or 'striking the chord'; its about what is called 'Impulse'. Impulse overpowers all of them, the heart, mind, logic, need, desire... all of them.
And that is how those people become what they become. They never 'decide'. They just 'do'.
@rahul: yup, true!
Delete@apurva: right...doing and deciding makes all the difference!
barobar bolti hai tu...ek chance to lenaich mangtay kuch accha karne ka liye :)
ReplyDelete:) yup...its a nice feeling to give urslf that chance of taking chances :)
ReplyDelete