A decade passed, but I still vividly remember signing a Slam book for a schoolmate, in which against the heading "Dreams I wish to fulfill", I wrote, "I wanna win the Bharata Ratna."
Then during the plus two farewell, I grew up a bit and ended up signing "Would be nice if there are couple of awards in my name. " That was surely growing up from aiming to win a Nobel Prize to being a Alfred Nobel.
And then at the end of graduation, I was dreaming of ruling the IT industry. That famous line of SRK in almost all of his biographic shows, "mein is sheher ko kareed ke rahoongaa" referring Mumbai. I was like the very same, to better the IT - be a new face of IT.
Now, with few years in IT and a hell lot of experiences in life and with people, if you ask me what's your dream at this moment, with my head pounding and sleepless nights in my account.. I 'd say, "My dream is to have dreamless sleep." :P I need nothing more than that at this moment. I'm sure, that is what I would want in rest of life too.
But since S. tagged me for dreams not related to the dreams in sleep, I'll have to think about them.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore or Abhinav Bindra, I don't remember who, exclaimed that fulfilling a dream is like getting on to the top of a mountain painstakingly to see that there's nothing on the peak. It's not a place to be stayed back and have picnic. You'll have to come down. So, fulfilling dreams is all about enjoying the process of fulfilling the dream.
I'd love to tag myself as a dreamer, but I know, I'm NOT a dreamer. Or, if it can be comprehended by anyone, I'd rather call myself a practical dreamer. I know that either sounds ignorant or pseudo-intellectual, but that's me! When confronted with situations and scenarios, I've always chosen to be practical - nothing but practical. I could be called cold, emotionless or similar adjectives, still I'm that. I dream within the realms of practicality. Being so is enormously draining, because you'll have constant meddling with anything and everything that your heart does. In a way, my brain takes guard of my heart as a elder one would protect his younger sibling. They've an understanding, which I end up respecting time and again.
Nevertheless, since I was tagged to blog about dreams that I wish to fulfill, they would be:
Someone happens to inquire my life, "Hey.. how's Purnima treating you?" (just the way people ask me, how's life treating you?), I dream of it saying, "She's cool.. even otherwise, we've got a way together. We are either ok or 'll be ok petty soon. No worries."
However erratic and eluding it might be and however much helpless a human being I might be, I somehow dream of partnering the best with my life. :) OVER-AMBITIOUS! You're permitted to say that aloud. :P
One of my latest wildest and craziest of dreams is to take communication between human beings to the next level - a no-language communicative mode. Then I needn't blog like this to tell my dreams, all I need is to open a firewall kinda thing in my brain and allow a set of brains to peek in what's happening in the part of my brain, where dreams are stored. Hope at least then, human beings get to understand one another. (idea copyrights@PT :P)
Another dream of mine is to successfully transfer to my kids, the happiness I experienced because of one man called Sachin Tendulkar. Sure, they'll have loads and loads of digital gadgets to watch the man in action and have reams and reams written about him. Its not sitting with them to watch a video or brag about Sach for hours together. I don't know what exactly it is, but I somehow dream of my kids enjoying the same happiness as their mother did, not necessarily because of same person.
I dream of meeting a hell lot of people in my life. No, I'm not talking about the big names, about my heroes. This is about people who walk into your life for a brief time and roll away as a wave that hits the shore. I'm not a believer of life-long-friends. People should walk in to walk out after a while. And the taste of rendezvous for life!
I dream of becoming a better friend. I wonder, if I can be bettered. Am I not hopeless in ways, folks? How do you tolerate me?
I dream of not losing the kid in me.. JUST NO WAY!
The list continues... so I better stop. Thanks S, it was nice time dreaming about dreams. :)
