Life is all about following your dreams. Paulo Coelho in ‘The Alkemist’ has expressed a similar thought. But is it actually so easy to ignore the mind and blindly follow the heart and proceed in a direction that probably leads to an uncertain future! Not easy ofcourse but not so tough either.
Living without a dream is no life after all. Can someone claim to be living a life if he has surrendered to fate and lets himself loose enough to be blown away with the breeze of time in a direction unknown? He might be breathing and showing all symptoms of life in biological terms but that’s just a biological life, which exists equally in an amoeba, a vegetable, a sponge or an elephant. Then what differentiates between a sponge and a human being? Is it just a super-developed brain or is there something more to it, something like a beating heart that’s often used as a symbol of the not-so-materialistically-conscious mind by the non-medical fraternity.
Where there is a heart, there are wishes and dreams. Wherever there are dreams, there are goals and zeal to achieve them, the determination to fight and struggle inspite of all the obstatcles in the path. Struggle to design the future in your own terms, to live a life you always thought you deserve, to strive to get better and better, to march ahead towards a life you have always dreamt for yourself, that’s what it means to truly live a life. The dream is life, the struggle is life, the fun of losing and yet fighting is life, and the joy of success is life.
There are many stakes involved ofcourse, the biggest being the risk of failure and the risk of probably losing whatever you initially started with. But as someone has said, ‘You don’t lose until you give up’. The day you give up, you accept defeat and you lose not just a chance to live your dream, but the dream itself and with the dream you lose life because, giving up is nothing but death.
Its finally upto an individual to choose a dreamer’s and fighter’s life or to choose to sway like a corpse with the waves of time in the ocean of life.
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