I was in the third class when my class teacher asked me "What do you want to become in life ?" and eight year old me without thinking said "I want to become a joker" because the girl I wanted to be friends with said she liked jokers and I had a dream in which we were friends. For the record, we didn't become friends even after that. What we see here is the beauty of dreams. They give us hope that tomorrow will be better.
People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes. They are made of experiences and beliefs. They are inspired by the environment in which we live and the thoughts we process. Dream is an inspiring picture of the future that energizes you to do everything you can to achieve it. A dream moves and inspires you. It awakens your passion. It fills you with hope and pumps your life with purpose and meaning.
Just like anything else, dreams come in varied sizes. Some are as small as making someone your friend while others have this majestic power to make a dent in the time and space, to change the world and touch millions of people lives. After them the world will never be the same again. But there validation should not be done on the basis of there size.
"Nothing is neither good nor bad but thinking makes itself" - Shakespeare
You have a dream. Great. But is it enough just to have a dream?
The answer is no. There is a saying in Sanskrit that in order to achieve something you have to work for it, only by thinking about it won't make it happen. Just like the lion has to hunt if he is hungry. The deer won't come itself to the lion and say eat me.
But its hard to get started. You might be confused because so much of advice is coming in. You might be directionless because there is no one in this unknown territory to guide you, to advice you.
If you are still talking about your goals but haven't done anything, just take the first step. Do the smallest thing you can think of which will take you closer to your goal or dream. Think big. Dream big but start small. Start with whatever you have coz whatever you have is big. Most people don't take their first step just because they keep on waiting for that perfect time to come. There will never be a point of time in your life when it is the right time to do a great thing. If you are waiting for that perfect time, that perfect time is not gonna come. You have to create the perfect time and the perfect opportunity and the perfect situation. In this process the biggest enemy you have to deal with is yourself.
There will be times when things will not go as you planned them to. Any number of things can happen to interrupt your flow. Don't take it personally. But you have got to be willing to change your ways. Your life is working if you don't like what you have produced. You are the director, you are the star, you wrote the script. You produced it, whatever it is. If it is a hit you produced it, if it is a flop you produced it. Take ownership of your actions and decide to go back to the drawing board and re-write the script that you are star of. You have that power.
Feel that everything gonna workout for you because you are going to be patient, persistent and positive no matter what. Be positive no matter what.
According to reports over 70% people across the world are not happy with their current job because they are not doing what interests them. They are not chasing their dreams. You see when you are not chasing your goal you are committing spiritual suicide. When you have some goal out there that you are stretching for and reaching for that takes you out of your comfort zone you will find out some talent and abilities you have that you didn't know you have. Life has a special kind of meaning for the people running towards their dream.
It's true that it's hard to change your life. That in the process of working on your dreams you are going to incur a lot of disappointments, a lot of failure, a lot of pain, a lot of setbacks but have the courage to keep going. Have the courage to not to give up on your dreams because this is your life, this is what you love, this is your passion.
Allow the pain to push you from where you are to push to where you need to be. Stop running from your pain and embrace your pain. It's easy to be a loser doesn't take any motivation, any drive in order to stay down there at low level but to reach the top you have to call everything in you. You have to harness your will to say I'm going to challenge myself.
Defeated are not those who lost the battle. Defeated are those who lost and didn't have the courage to stand-up again. If you can look up, you can get up. If you think bad enough to go and fight for, to work day and night for, to give up your time and peace and sleep for, if all that you dream and scheme is all about and your life would seem useless and worthless without it.
See if you wanna make this your decade you gotta start saying yes to your life, yes to your dreams, yes to your unfolding future, yes to your potential. Why not?
Believe that when god was giving this dream that you have, you showed up, you survived, that you are the one chosen out of 7.7 billion people for this great work. What an exciting time to be alive!!
Even if your life feels like a closed room in which lights are cutoff and its dark. Keep looking at your dream, reviewing it everyday and saying to yourself- it's not over until I win. And the day will come when you will win.
Are you willing to work until that day?
Be alive. Live your dreams. Versus merely existing like so many do.
