Heres one to the dreamers!!!!!
Dreamer – anyone who dreams. According to its definition all human beings are dreamers. So what is it I want to discuss here? Lets begin.
I am not talking about some great visionary or scientist or inventor here. I am not talking about some great leader or statesman here. I am talking about us here, we the people.
In school, I believe there are two types of students. One type, the focussed, bright ‘A’ graders who will always figure in the top 5% or say 10% of the result sheet. And the other type, I would prefer to call them ‘Dreamers.’
So do I mean that the ‘A’ graders don’t dream at all, absolutely not! Then why only the second type are called ‘dreamers.’? Well, by the end of this I hope you will be able to see my ‘Nazariya’.
The ‘A’ graders there are very good, very focussed since a very young age as to what they want in life, what are their goals, and more importantly how to reach that goal. You really have to give it to them ladies and gentleman for their unwavering will and focus, otherwise in today’s world it is very easy to get distracted.
I think it is more to do with the way their minds were conditioned at a very young age.
For example, I may be wrong, but most of the kids who have their parents as doctors, end up being doctors. One of the reasons I suppose is that from a very early age they see their parents as doctors, they hang around hospitals, see what great job their parents are doing and hence you know get inspired to be that which leads to their dreams, goals and passion, all linked to being a doctor.
Other type of ‘A’ graders is those who from a very young age have an idol to look upto and then they get so obsessed with it that they want to achieve more or the same as their idol. Once again their dreams, goals and passion get linked to that one thing or one filed their idol belongs.
But no, I am not here to discuss these ‘A’ graders, I want to tell you more about ‘Dreamers’. Who are they? Well a simple way to identify them is as elaborated below.
Around 9th or 10th std most of us in school are bombarded again again by one question, “What is your goal is life?” Invariably all the students in the class will answer. But there will be some who will lie, not because they don’t want to tell the truth but because, the truth is, they don’t have one.
Right from the school to college and even while working, the dreamer doesn’t have that one dream to throw himself totally into, but he has lots of dreams behind which his heart would like to run.
‘A’ graders, right from the beginning have one goal and one dream and hence I feel sometimes this acts as a disadvantage, in a way that not many other things interest them and hence I feel there exploring instincts get rusted. Whereas, on the other hand, ‘Dreamer’ is always exploring new fields, always falling in love with something or the other.
Take the author for example, for those who don’t know the author personally it starts with cars and bikes, since a very young age he was crazy behind them. So logically the answer to the question – “what is your goal in life?” in 10th std was automobile engineer. But somewhere deep down in his heart he was still debating, was it the machine that he was attracted to or the feeling of driving or riding. Moving on, the author went on to do his engineering in Mechanical.
Then came along MBA, a field he was unaware until his 3rd year Engg, until he heard his friends discussing it. Subsequently it led him to exploring media, advertising and marketing. The author fell in love gain. He started loving media and advertising so much he dreamt of himself as an advertising guru.
Also along the way he got encouragement for his writing skills. He started dreaming of himself as a writer.
All this while he got a chance to spend more time on the road, tripping on his bike and then suddenly he realised that his real passion was travelling and being on the road on the bike.
Now well into his first job and also having quit it, the author has some different plans. When his boss (now ex) asked him during his exit interview “Where do you see yourself after 10 years?” he says, “I see myself as a teacher.”
On the other hand if he would have been an ‘A’ grader kind of focussed guy I am sure he would be as of now an M. Tech and working in some R&D department of some automobile company.
But mind you, the author was a bright student, a college and once a university topper in Engg.
But tell me what is more interesting, the 3 lines mentioned above of the author as an ‘A’ grader – which literally sums up the entire life. Or the 4 paragraphs of the actual life of author, to which more will get added coz the author is a dreamer.
Exactly, and let me tell you dear readers we will realize this when we become parents or grandparents (assuming the present generation won’t have time as parents to tell their children stories but sure hope they do have time as grandparents) and we are narrating our stories to the kids around.
The ‘A’ graders will have stories but I feel they will be short and will evoke only one feeling – inspiring. But us Dreamers, our stories will have all the masala in it, the confusion while choosing subjects, the goof up of flunking in a course because we just chose it on impulse and the uncertainty of where our lives will lead us but nevertheless enjoying it to the hilt.
And I would say the dreamer’s life is also shaped up into the way it is, largely due to the freedom of thought which he gets from his family, the undying support from them in whatever he does.
Some of you may say, doesn’t he mean day dreamers, people always lost in their world of fantasies not quite focussed, etc.
I would beg to differ, day dreamers have a derogatory feel attached to it. On the other hand I feel its not at all derogatory to be a dreamer. I feel as opposed to the ‘A’ graders who always think “I have to do this” a dreamer will always think “I have to do all this” and more so “what else can I do?” and may get up every day of his life having dreamt of himself as a different person, in a different career.
Dreamer’s dreams are not enslaved by one goal as opposed to an ‘A’ graders. An ‘A’ grader, who wants to become a doctor, will always dream of topping his class, getting admission to the best college in medicine, specialising and being a top notch doctor. Whereas a dreamer’s dreams are like a free bird. Always flying and exploring new horizons.
Tell me readers how many of you (considering you all are working) still get dreams of you doing good in some other field other than the one you are working, and you get up and say, “why not?” I feel majority of our dreams are enslaved, by our day to day commitments. Some of us just dream or rather I should say plan their following day in their dreams, they do financial planning in their dreams. Zyada se zyada they will dream about a new home, new car or a vacation . C’mon give me a break. Allah hasn’t given us this awesome blessing to be wasted like this.
I guess this has become too long and I might as well end it here.
So like I said in the beginning lets hear it once again for the ‘A’ graders and last but not the least, raise whatever is in your hands and say, heres to the ‘Dreamers’!!!!!
