‘Dream a new
dream, oh you young soul,
Live a new
fear everyday,
And let go
of the ones that you missed,
For they
weren’t yours to begin with.’
When I was a
kid, I dreamt of being an astronaut. I know a lot of kids did thanks to the
Late Kalpana Chawla tragedy that propelled NASA and introduced kids of my
generation to the very idea. I however, was more enthused about the idea for few
more years. I wanted to see the stars and the moon and debunk rumours about the
photo taken on the moon being fake (Was it only me who heard that one?)
That was the
case till I realised my verbal abilities and discovered journalism as a career
option. I was fascinated and often found myself day dreaming about getting the
big stories. Along the way my dream changed again, and again and is still
changing. And you know what is the most important part? That I am okay with
that.
We grow as
people every single day. Sure, the growth graph is ever changing; some days you
grow bigger and better, some days you are worse off. Some days you wish and
believe yourself to be capable of bigger and better things, and some days you
don’t feel that. I often find myself thinking
how hard we are on ourselves for not wanting the same dream, for letting
the dream change, or for not achieving it in the first place!
To all you
people, who have let go of your dream, I am proud of you. Every broken dream,
unfulfilled aspirations and unachieved expectations are as big a part of you as
everything you have achieved and become. And every broken dream, will just pave
way for a new one, a bigger happiness and a different life.
So stop
being hard on yourself, about the things you didn’t achieve, the dreams that
didn’t come true, cause its okay! Feel lucky; you have the ability to have a new dream, and the
strength and belief to achieve it.
I gave up on
a dream once, and saw more than one come true since.
