When I look back at some instances, I couldn’t help but wonder how worse was many of my decisions, and what is going on with me. I had been against my friends from school for around 6 years, and was quite defying at college too. But 6 years in my life was not just useful in all sense, but I also could see why I had gone through such instances in the short period of 6 years.
They say you have to grow old to be a man of wisdom. Obviously, this is a false statement obtained from the elderly people who do not want the youngsters to think above the white haired men (The way I see it, the thought exists only in India and not in developed places.) The elderly men say that one has to gain education, get certificates, get a job, get a married, make money, and such.
Am not saying that this is a falsified statement, but one has to admit that this is a blinded statement exerted by the men who have not seen much of the world. They have only lived long enough around the area they grew up or travelled. To know true wisdom, one has to talk to a mountaineer, a dancer, or leading businessmen. Why? Because they are leaders of their lives.
I was once mentioned about a person who works at theatres in Bangalore. He is presently 45, and was a gold medal winner from IIT and IIM (45 years old, so imagine the time when he got the medals. This is a time when engineering was a far away post that could be obtained by rich kids). He worked, and he earned loads, and he was quite unhappy. The moment he left the job and entered the theatres, his sadness grew down to a small fact, “Why didn’t I do this earlier?” Now he is happy; he earns less, but is happy.
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara is a movie that has to be watched by the youth of present times, who are scared to make decisions. In it says a quote “Why waste your today for an unexpected tomorrow?” People say that you have to make money and then go behind your dream. But the trouble is will there be a tomorrow to get onto our dream?
Edison had to undergo lots of spankings and ill words, until he proved himself worthy by creating a revolution, during the time when people thought inventions were not worth it. Einstein was called a fool. Newton was a donkey as per his father. Chaplin was a tramp. Shakespeare was so poor that he had to leave school and work at a horse pen. Copernicus was made to agree that the earth was the centre of the universe. And Robert Frost had to travel across the sea to be seen by the world.
But if we check history, these people are regarded the greatest in the universe, since they believed in what they could do and move forward. Then comes a prominent question asked by many of my fellow mates. “Come on! You are talking about Shakespeare and Edison. Are you any one of them?” The answer is simple. “No, I am not for I am a different individual. But if you’re considering their level of work, you have to remember that they were born just like me, and they faced many consequences in life, just like any one of us.”
Where did they make the difference that makes them apart from everyone else? A simple decision about shutting the ears to the mind, giving only the logical thoughts to the mind and listening purely to the heart made the difference for them. And thus legends were born, because a legend can never be made. Taking the history of heroes from all around the world, you will the power of will and dreams that guided each and everyone one of them, starting from the man who invented fire to Mark Zuckerberg who invented facebook.
Dreaming a dream is an easy task, but living it takes courage and a determined mind to face the world. And only those had been successful in life. So the way I see it, the essential point we all have to accept is to “Listen to the heart, and live your dream”.
So if any elderly says about their age and experience, just tell them that Buddha was only 30 when he guided half of the world to light.
God bless you all dreamers.
P.S. I had been a day dreamer for six years. I had been an active dreamer for just around 2 months. But that has made the difference in me.
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