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….
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
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