Thursday, July 28, 2011

Dreams


I believe in one thing slightly more than others, the power of dreams. Dreams are what separates humans from other life forms. We have this unique ability to weave a wonderful mesh of thoughts and colour it with fantastic imagination which is indeed what makes us special. What I think is more interesting, however, is not the fact that we can dream, but we are the only ones on this planet who can manifest these dreams into reality. Thoughts have a language of its own. We can translate it into reality. This is by far the best thing about being humans I think.

It is important to put this in perspective. What is unique to say, for instance, a monkey? Its tail of course! It uses the tail everyday, every minute of its life. What is unique to birds? Wings. They use these everyday to fly. How many of us are confident of putting our unique ability to use? Isn't it true that most of us are afraid of dreaming dreams? We tend to fear dreaming about changes we wish to bring in our lives. Perhaps its more a fear of failure and disappointments than of dreaming. Dreams only hold good if they could cross that boundary between thought and reality and manifest! Life simply cannot become beautiful without dreams. Dreams define the purpose of our existence. Dreams are the path to fulfilling our destinies. No dream is too idyllic or unreachable so long as we recognise the extent of our potential and have the courage and determination to create our own reality every living moment, rather than living in the reality which others have created for us! This is where a very important point must be understood. The journey to making these dreams real is solely what gives our dreams the value they possess. Dreams are only means to the end, not an end in itself.

Life is that which we never know it is, and when it starts unfolding, we realise that even we ourselves are not what we thought we were. Slowly and steadily as one begins to comprehend the mysteries of existence and realise the truths of what we refer to as "life", one begins to become isolated from the homogeneous monotony of the mundane realism. This isolation at the deeper and subtler levels of our being is what equips us with an extraordinarily immense potential. This is what can help manifest even what appear to be most unrealistic dreams. Its just a matter of unlocking this potential and putting it to good use. Those who are successful become more and more confident and dream ever bigger and grandiose dreams, for they now know how to transform dreams into reality. They dare to trespass into the realms of pure vivid creativity, of magical transformation of their lives, and those of the deepest desires of their hearts waiting to manifest. They now learn to live their dreams, at times so much so, that a sudden warp of time as if it were, transports them from what were their dreams to what then becomes the very realities of their lives! All it takes is a moment. A moment of self-belief. A moment of confidence. a moment of determination. After that only the sky is the limit!

I would like to end this post with a quote I had come across a while ago, not sure by whom but something that inspired me in a way to alter my perception of life and sowed the seed of that possibility of believing in my dreams. All we need is to live by it...

"Dreams are like the paints of great artists. The world is like their canvas. Believing in those dreams is the brush which transforms those dreams into the masterpiece of reality!"

7 comments:

Noor said...

"All it takes is a moment. A moment of self-belief. A moment of confidence. a moment of determination. After that only the sky is the limit!"

Beautifully put. I really loved your post. It's exactly how we should look at dreams. You say it so well, they're definitely what makes us special and unique yet some of us give up that right so easily. We really shouldn't. Sometimes it's all we can cling to.

Your writing really makes one believes in dreams. Wow. Your passion about them really shows. =)

Grannymar said...

I found you with no problem, and now I am off to explore your blog!

Rummuser said...

You are lucky. I dream but can never remember what I dreamt about!

padmum said...

Lovely post...reminds me of Kishoreda's song...Zindagi ka safar, hai ye kaisa safar, koi samjha nahin, koi jaana nahin...this journey of life, what kind of a journey is it...nobody has understood it, nobody has been able to decipher it (for non-Hindi knowing readers of this blog)

Am off to read more profound stuff. God bless you.

Rohit said...

@Grannymar: Nice! Happy exploration!:)

Rohit said...

@Ramana Sir: I don't remember most dreams either, just some strange ones and funny ones. If it were up to me though, I'd rather have a dreamless sleep, just so much more relaxing and refreshing.

Rohit said...

@Padmum: Thank you! It is one of my favourite songs, says so much in such few words. I wish today's music had that depth to it..Anyhow, glad you liked the post :)