Madd Hatter gave up

‘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.