Following Dreams
Monday, July 9, 2007
Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth are the last years of formal learning in one's life before one enters a professional course. This is the time when there is a lot of pressure from teachers, parents and peers to make the right decisions. We are expected to choose a career of our interest and look to pursue that. Most of the times, we pick something we are interested in. But how far is this the right thing to do?
Before you re-read that line, let me assure you that you read what you read and I am in my full senses. We all have something called goal which we want to pursue. Usually we chase this thing.Authors like Paul Coelho say that it is this goal that leads us to our destiny. Destiny is something which I believe in. But what if the dreams we are chasing and our destiny is far apart?
Let me give you an example. There was a kid who wanted to be a doctor just like his uncle. That was his dream for quite a number of years. But circumstances forced him to take over his father's brewery. Today, this man is known to all of us as Vijay Mallya. Another example: This boy wanted to do his MBA and was ready to even break the stars. His dreams were almost fulfilled when he got a seat in Stanford University. But destiny had something else in store for him. His father was sick. He had to protect his younger brother's education. So he left the course mid-way and came back to India. As per latest figures, he is the richest man in the country and India's first trillionaire- Mukesh Ambani.
So what do all these stories tell indicate? Forget about your dreams? Dreams are nice to pursue but isn't it nicer to be the country's richest man? Currently I am confused. So, for now I leave it to the few readers of this blog to decide.
Before you re-read that line, let me assure you that you read what you read and I am in my full senses. We all have something called goal which we want to pursue. Usually we chase this thing.Authors like Paul Coelho say that it is this goal that leads us to our destiny. Destiny is something which I believe in. But what if the dreams we are chasing and our destiny is far apart?
Let me give you an example. There was a kid who wanted to be a doctor just like his uncle. That was his dream for quite a number of years. But circumstances forced him to take over his father's brewery. Today, this man is known to all of us as Vijay Mallya. Another example: This boy wanted to do his MBA and was ready to even break the stars. His dreams were almost fulfilled when he got a seat in Stanford University. But destiny had something else in store for him. His father was sick. He had to protect his younger brother's education. So he left the course mid-way and came back to India. As per latest figures, he is the richest man in the country and India's first trillionaire- Mukesh Ambani.
So what do all these stories tell indicate? Forget about your dreams? Dreams are nice to pursue but isn't it nicer to be the country's richest man? Currently I am confused. So, for now I leave it to the few readers of this blog to decide.
5 Comments:
At July 9, 2007 at 3:59 PM ,
~Priya~ said...
Two totally complex views !
Since you've posted 'em, let me ask you something,
"Will you be happy when you reach your destiny which is a total opposite of what you had dreamt for?"
The thing we need to ask ourselves is,whether we are going to sit there, and wait for our destiny to reach us, or, whether we are going to spread our wings and chase our dreams !
Dreams are really nice to pursue, but what matters more is how we meet our destiny.How can we make our dreams our destiny !
I know its complex but that's how its supposed to be !
At July 9, 2007 at 4:18 PM ,
Yaju said...
Always have dreams but never keep ambitions. Because if you have dreams you'll always be proud of them and even if they don't get fulfilled you'll be happy to see if someone having the same dreams achieved them. Whereas being ambitious will give you nothing but unhappiness and dissatisfaction and even after achieving your ambitions you won't feel it's importance.
At July 9, 2007 at 4:25 PM ,
Akshay Balraj said...
i'm sure many wont achieve wat they want ... v try 4 sumthing now .. n end up sumwher els in life!
At December 12, 2009 at 8:13 AM ,
Anonymous said...
any news coming ?
At February 21, 2010 at 1:11 PM ,
Anonymous said...
и всё эе: спасибо. а82ч
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