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In every child, there is a dream, a dream to be somebody. Somebody important in life so that he/she feels like they have done something in life. Every boy/girl who plays with a doctor set or building set dreams of being a great doctor who will help sick people or of a great architect who builds stunning buildings that will leave a mark on mankind.
So what is happening? are people really happy just by satisfying their need for money? Or its just those some people who make it happen has real dreams? am not sure of the first question but for the second one, i know its not true. I know some people who had real dreams that turned to nightmares. I am not sure of all their stories but i know of few that happened around me and inside me.
So when do they start thinking it is ok to be a nobody or it is enough to be a just another doctor or just another engineer? When do they start to walk away from their dreams, away from their believes, towards a "normal" life where they fit in perfectly and earn enough to live a life that makes their families happy, and their dreams stay as dreams forever.Their dreams become nightmares and haunt them in the nights after a "normal" day of work. They haunt them in their mornings as ego and performance below average and hurt their evenings with family as frustrations and delayed work hours.
So many of us had dreams, real ones that could help a whole bunch of people in some way or the other when we were kids, if not anybody else those dreams when realised could help the individual himself. It could make his life blissful and not boring and monotonous. He would still smile from his heart at 40 or 50. He would still look at his parents and could see pride in their eyes and not search for shame or inadequacy in their dialogues.
Like i told you earlier, i cannot sum up every body's story in here but i can talk to you about those few i saw around me. The first check point is met by those who were sadly gifted by god and has a talent for art or literature. These are the people who dreamt of becoming an artist or a singer or a writer but somehow in the current society set up all these are secondary professions which are considered to be less glamorous or earns less compared to other. They are quietly turned into books by killing their talents and dreams.
Then there were dreams that forced them to study hard sipping coffee through cold mornings and believing studying is enough and everything else can wait. They are mostly average individuals for whom it takes a lot of effort to make a mark, with increased pressure from their parents and driven by their dreams they work hard clear some entrance in good score and get into some top notch colleges. This is the point where some dreams are broken where their avg brilliance (according to entrance scores and family members) is met with high dreams who tell them it is impossible to make it so high for you so just do what you can and be good at that. People accept that and move on studying the course they had to settle for or their parents could afford.
Some people manage to save some more and go ahead to do a course that will help them realise their dreams. Then comes college where teachers shows off their knowledge and awareness ( or lack of it) where you are first aware of your faulty education system. But somehow even if the individual manages to clear the college with good grades, then comes the pressure of campus selection (for engineers of course, like i told you, this is the story i am aware of) if you did not get a campus selection, you are not good enough and obviously the brilliant ones or the hard workers who are capable of realising their dreams end up with more than one placement. Then comes the pressure part where you are forced to take up those jobs as it would help your family financially or for girls to get a good husband. The third point where dreams are crushed. If you manage to survive all these three points, you actually have a chance in realizing your dreams.
I don't know whom to blame for all this, parent who do not understand their children, the faulty education system, our current social set up, i am not sure. But one thing i know if you fall down in any one of these three check points, you actually fall into a groove, a groove in the system from which you can never get out or it would take nothing short of a miracle for you to actually get out of it.
I would like to recall our former president the well respected Dr. APJ Abdul kalam's words here "dreams are not what you see in sleep, it is the one thing that dosen't let you sleep" True sir, we are a generation that are haunted by our own dreams. But i do promise you one thing if i get a chance to protect somebody's dream or even fight for it i would definitely do it as i could not do justice to mine.
Dedicated to all my friends who lost their dreams and to those who realised it, am proud of all of you as i know if we did give up, it is just because we felt something else was more worth it.
So many of us had dreams, real ones that could help a whole bunch of people in some way or the other when we were kids, if not anybody else those dreams when realised could help the individual himself. It could make his life blissful and not boring and monotonous. He would still smile from his heart at 40 or 50. He would still look at his parents and could see pride in their eyes and not search for shame or inadequacy in their dialogues.
Like i told you earlier, i cannot sum up every body's story in here but i can talk to you about those few i saw around me. The first check point is met by those who were sadly gifted by god and has a talent for art or literature. These are the people who dreamt of becoming an artist or a singer or a writer but somehow in the current society set up all these are secondary professions which are considered to be less glamorous or earns less compared to other. They are quietly turned into books by killing their talents and dreams.
Then there were dreams that forced them to study hard sipping coffee through cold mornings and believing studying is enough and everything else can wait. They are mostly average individuals for whom it takes a lot of effort to make a mark, with increased pressure from their parents and driven by their dreams they work hard clear some entrance in good score and get into some top notch colleges. This is the point where some dreams are broken where their avg brilliance (according to entrance scores and family members) is met with high dreams who tell them it is impossible to make it so high for you so just do what you can and be good at that. People accept that and move on studying the course they had to settle for or their parents could afford.
Some people manage to save some more and go ahead to do a course that will help them realise their dreams. Then comes college where teachers shows off their knowledge and awareness ( or lack of it) where you are first aware of your faulty education system. But somehow even if the individual manages to clear the college with good grades, then comes the pressure of campus selection (for engineers of course, like i told you, this is the story i am aware of) if you did not get a campus selection, you are not good enough and obviously the brilliant ones or the hard workers who are capable of realising their dreams end up with more than one placement. Then comes the pressure part where you are forced to take up those jobs as it would help your family financially or for girls to get a good husband. The third point where dreams are crushed. If you manage to survive all these three points, you actually have a chance in realizing your dreams.
I don't know whom to blame for all this, parent who do not understand their children, the faulty education system, our current social set up, i am not sure. But one thing i know if you fall down in any one of these three check points, you actually fall into a groove, a groove in the system from which you can never get out or it would take nothing short of a miracle for you to actually get out of it.
I would like to recall our former president the well respected Dr. APJ Abdul kalam's words here "dreams are not what you see in sleep, it is the one thing that dosen't let you sleep" True sir, we are a generation that are haunted by our own dreams. But i do promise you one thing if i get a chance to protect somebody's dream or even fight for it i would definitely do it as i could not do justice to mine.
Dedicated to all my friends who lost their dreams and to those who realised it, am proud of all of you as i know if we did give up, it is just because we felt something else was more worth it.
