Dreams follow You!!

Mumbai, a city that never sleeps is on pause today. Never in my life did I see all (literally all) the shutters down, a city that didn’t succumb to the Bomb blasts did stop to pay homage to their favorite Bala Saheb Thackrey (though I doubt if he was everyone’s favorite). It is estimated that around 20 lakh people had gathered to witness his Antim Yatra , this huge gathering was never ever seen before…People, please don’t get pissed am neither here to repeat what the media has been telling you all day long nor am I here to CTRL C + CTRL V of Wikipedia on the late B.S.T

The figure of 20 lakh people gathering on someone’s funeral had pushed me to wonder on how many people would actually be gathering to witness my Antim Darshan?  50, max 100…I might even win 200 posts on my Facebook account, but 20,00,000 is seriously a crazy figure!!

Coming back to I, me , myself…was trying to analyze that what exactly differentiates such people (about whom the world reads on Wikipedia) from us (about whom people hardly read, or get to know thru such self obsessed blogs/ fb accounts). I was told that that they follow their dreamzzzz , they are able to break the shackles of a convenient life and take the less taken path to do something off beat. But I often wonder if , Aishwarya Rai had a ‘dream’  to become Miss World (as a matter of fact she had dreamt of being an Architect), or Bill Gates ever thought of being the richest man on this earth, even Gandhi ji had no intention of being what he ended up being, he was lawyer, people like Hitler also never would have ‘dreamt’ of killing so many Jews in his childhood…..infact to think of it, most of us are too small in our vision or to explore the possibilities of our future and hence our childhood dreams are mostly pictures painted by our parents/ TV/ society at large. So how come some people are so different, they do so many things differently, this differently that they themselves would have never imagined of what their life ultimately turns out to be. A life that touches so many other lives, a life that calls for change in the way the forthcoming generations think or live, a life that is saluted even after its termination….

So why am I (or we) not able to be so different, at the superficial analysis of it I think that I have not able to break free from the bondages of a convenient life, a 9 hour 5 day week job and enough to eat food, but is that it? To be very honest, to be different requires so many things that I lack, ability to dream big (or different), and then guts (in some cases even the will power to work so hard), also not to forget : the ease of this stereotypical way of living (which has been taught to us)…

 That was about the superficial analysis: thinking deeply about it, I think if I agree to the above analysis, it will be sorta paradoxical theory coz in the my first para itself I had mentioned that these big people never dreamt of their ‘bigness’, so no question of then following the dreams….so how does it happen?? Its often said that Life is journey and not a destination and hence not necessarily at the start of the journey you would know where you are heading to, but during the course of the journey when one takes decisions on which turn to take at different different points, one comes across many different milestones that frame the entire route (which is less taken)

This theory also reminds me of many supporting evidences….like one found in Bible, where Jonah tried escaping God’s instruction, but no matter how much so ever he tried (thrown into the sea, eaten by a large fish etc.), he ultimately HAD to do what was destined for him to do, in present times one of the bravest soul I have known was Mother Tersa, this Albanian women am sure had never ‘dreamt’ of dying in India serving the poor, but look at we know her as now!! She had received ‘a call’ to do what she did….lemme be little secular here to prove my point…another lady we know as Sonia Gandhi, an Italian lady who had romanced a guy from the most influential family of India, is now his widow. But as matter of fact she is known to be having the remote control to control the world’s largest democracy!!

We can simply conclude that its really NOT about following your dreams per say, but more about the dreams following you….lets take the easiest example(you yourself)….did you ever dream of being what you are today in your childhood?? …at least I didn’t!!….I had never even known, that there is anything even known as planogramming in this world (which earns me livelihood now)

The Secret talked very convincingly about the power to attract things towards you, in the similar fashion, by every passing day you are also getting attracted towards what you are destined to be…it might be as simple as being a housewife, or as complex as being Sonia Gandhi ;) ….a verse from my favorite book, Bible:

“Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.”

Romans 12: 6-8

So while we all have gifts, they differ from person to person….but at the same time we all should and must make use of our gifts by fulfilling the tasks we are assigned for our life (no matter how small or big)

Just to conclude: am still to know the task I am here for, but truly believe that I am for sure going to be followed by the dream some day J

1st September 2012

Goa 2012

 

Hi People, am finally here with my blog :) Yeah yeah I know the phrase 'my blog' sounds so self obsessed, but as a matter of fact it is indeed one of those typical ' I, me , myself" stuff.

The point is: why would you like to participate in it, so here is my solid reasoning...that we all (i really mean we all) are fundamentally very similar and hence some of my feelings would match yours too :)

Its got nothing to do with the intellectual debates, profound topics, complex vocabulary and fundas about a 'suc(k)ssf(oo)l' life. And yes absolutely nothing to do with the fake smiles on the facebook walls trying to prove (mostly to my own self) that my life perfect......but the good news is that I will be simply sharing things that made me happy or unhappy and then would try to get to get the essence of what really a fulfilled life shall comprise of!

By God's grace life has been pretty much smooth, a loving joint family, a small town roots, elite College, MBA from an average institute, 2 years work ex of hard work in sales, and now with a MNC  in a humble pay (technically nothing to be proud of , nothing to be ashamed of, but loadsa stuff to be thankful for). But this shit thing known as 'peer pressure' always pushes me to think that is all good with my life or not? am I successful or not? In a world brought so close together through Facebook you have too many things to compare your self with....a chick friend of yours traveling overseas now and then, another slutty girl happily married to a sober man, your school friend who was really really inferior to you in terms of grade fairing way better than you in professional life, people talking about being politician and cracking UPSC!!!!! Am I really asking for too little in life? Or I deserve too little...but the point is that do I really have too little?

Diverging from my point of 'too little', will tell you about my two experiences yesterday:

1.     I was late to office (as usual), my office being on 9th floor I suddenly rushed into the lift on ground floor and quickly pressed on 9. And then enters a gentleman standing on the way of the lift door waiting for some one else to enter, obviously that enraged me!! ' WTF!! Saala apni girl friend ke liye lift rook raha hai!! I am already late to office, dont wanna be thrashed by my new boss'....and then around a minute latter I see another gentleman walk in (the one for whom the lift was waiting) and I suddenly realize that my eyes are flooding with tears (for the melodrama queen I am). The man who entered latter was disabled, both his legs did not function, his crutches were the only support for him to walk. The guy did not look as if he was seeking any sympathy, with his Tupperware Tiffin bag attached in one of his crutches he walked in the lift, the man latter got down on JP Morgan (he works with one of the top investment banks)!! How quick was I to get angry on that man who stopped the lift just for a minute!! The specially abled guy just made me realize that how ungrateful I have been for my blessings.....As I walk into the office everyday, a huge mirror on the entrance always makes me wonder how fat I am, funny thing is that the same mirror also reflects that I am blessed with fully functional limbs which I never notice!

2.    On a casual conversation with one of my new colleagues,  her introduction contained some thing unusual: 'we are a family of 5....errr...actually now we are a family of 4...(little more silence)...I lost of my sister few months back' . latter on with much hesitation I managed to ask her about her late sister just to realize that my very own sister had same disease because of which we almost lost her!! And today she is there with us, a kid who just doesn't stop talking like a chirpy bird on the phone :) In all this hustle bustle of life we often tend to forget the miracles of our own life (trust me on this one)

Now coming back to the point of  'too little' , I think this term is too subjective and very difficult to be quantified. But one thing is for sure that it all depends on the benchmark, you can always benchmark your life's measure on people around who have a seemingly (superficially) fulfilled life or measure your life on your very own good and bad experiences.

It is pretty much possible that the people whom I referred to be as 'seemingly' happy might be really having a perfect life, but the truth is ITS THEIR LIFE BUDDY!! Your life has its very own, very unique permutations and combinations  and the only person who can solve this math is YOU!!

So despite of getting bogged down by the pressure of doing better everyday, earning better everyday, looking better everyday , I decide to take a break today (after 5 days of hard work the weekend was precisely made to thank Him and relax) and thank Lord for beautiful things of my life :)

Have a Great weekend Guys!! Relax and Chillax!!