Please, Don’ t Steal Dreams!

What a life without dreams, isn’t it? When I say, dreams, I never mean day dreaming. Anyone can do it and it is nothing more than a time killer. Real sensible dreams make a man out of us. It’s a real challenge too. Some achieve small dreams in a big way while others achieve big dreams in a small way. We should dream in accordance with our aptitudes, skills and more importantly our interest.

Recently during the days of Abhinav Bindra’s gold winning for shooting in Beijing Olympics the Chennai Rifle Club witnessed a huge rush of parents who want to admit their children for the rifle training. What a pathetic scenario-I thought. It was Bindra’s dream to become a shooter. He was confident that he possesses the skills to become a world class shooter. Not everyone have that aptitude. It’s neither anyone’s problem nor the idea I need to convey here.

The very idea is the robbery of dreams. If the same Bindra decided to follow his father’s dreams and became a business man, we would have missed an ace shooter who made our country proud. He just followed his heart and stick with his dreams. If he had stolen the ‘shooting’ dream from anyone, he couldn’t stick with it. It’s only because the dream belongs to someone else. He just has stolen it!

I have a very good friend called Sandeep (name changed) whose hobby is nothing other than stealing dreams. He doesn’t have any ambitions or dreams of his own. He just borrows them from others. One day if he sees someone joining some animation course, he too joins it and never completes the course. Another day if he sees someone going for some dancing classes, he too gives it a try and ends up lamenting that it is not his cup of tea or coffee. In his late 20’s now, he is still confused and don’t know where he belongs.

Whenever I think about him, an alarm bell rings in my head. What made him jobless when most of his friends carrying home a five digit salary? What made him always withdraw himself to the corner of his room with his laptop? I think it’s not his laziness, inactiveness or lack of confidence. Only thing in which he is an expert is in stealing dreams. He never dreams on his own. As a result he lacks conviction and motivation.

There is a great danger involved in dreaming other persons’ dreams. Sadly,most of the people never dares to dream of their own. They follow the crowd and end up in wrong places. They stuck like a square peg in a round hole. Everybody possesses certain unique talents and skills. Some finds and nurtures them while others fail to identify them. So the end results are: the person who born to become a poet turns into an accountant, an actor becomes a soldier, a singer turns into a judge and so on. Inferiority complex, job dissatisfaction, loss of enthusiasm et al will follow too.

What we have to do to dig out the real talents in ourselves? Only way I know is to do different things in life. Just give a break to fortune-tellers and astrologers. You never know where your fortune lies until you ventures into that area. Keep in mind that there is always a risk involved when you start following your heart. But, you will learn a lot in that journey indeed. On top of everything, don’t give up the things you love doing.

Look, who’s talking? – You may be thinking. See, I’m a small person with big dreams. But, hitherto I’m successfully failing in most of my endeavours. It doesn’t matter whether I win or fail, I will never give up trying. I’m also confident that all my dreams are my own. I stick with them since I haven’t borrowed them from anyone.

Decide today whether to dream a dream of your own or borrow it from anyone else. Just remember that no one can play your role in this world better than you do. Just be yourself.

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