I got the inspiration of writing on this topic from one of my friends while chatting with him. This is not only story of mine, but I guess, of almost everyone in todays fast pace world. Let me start with childhood.
A normal child having dream of coming first in class. Sometimes his dream was fulfilled, sometimes not. But he used to keep on sticking to dream and kept on chasing it. Slowly the childhood ended and he started dreaming of becoming an engineer and get into a good engineering college. He worked hard for it and finally the day came when he fulfilled his that dream also. One more dream achieved but another began. Life in college was fun but he wanted to enter into IT world. God again listened to him and one day he got job into a very good IT company. Life seems to be complete for him that day. One more dream achieved but another began to take shape. Then one day he joined that IT company with a good starting salary. It was too good for him at that time. He was happy and contended with it. He kept on working hard and with passing time, he wanted more and more of everything – salary, work, time, freedom and what not. One more dream achieved but more began to take shape.
He is achieving all of them slowly and steadily but each time he thinks he has reached the end of mirage, he found again a new one posing another challenge. That is what is keeping him going, keeping him alive. His endless ambitions, newer posing challenges everyday is keeping life worth living. That is the endless mirage of everyone behind which we are all running.
It’s good to follow it, but in the race of getting it, we should not forget what we have today because whatever we have today is something which we wanted long back. So make sure to enjoy it, to value it. It’s good to have goals but in the rat-race of achieving them we should not forget to enjoy the present. The mirage will never end; you will always keep moving towards your destination till the last second of your life but make sure you enjoy the journey too.
Because in the end, what you treasure should not only be the destination but the journey too.
Ok, lots of mirage still to be captured. Hence ending here. :)
He is achieving all of them slowly and steadily but each time he thinks he has reached the end of mirage, he found again a new one posing another challenge. That is what is keeping him going, keeping him alive. His endless ambitions, newer posing challenges everyday is keeping life worth living. That is the endless mirage of everyone behind which we are all running.
It’s good to follow it, but in the race of getting it, we should not forget what we have today because whatever we have today is something which we wanted long back. So make sure to enjoy it, to value it. It’s good to have goals but in the rat-race of achieving them we should not forget to enjoy the present. The mirage will never end; you will always keep moving towards your destination till the last second of your life but make sure you enjoy the journey too.
Because in the end, what you treasure should not only be the destination but the journey too.
Ok, lots of mirage still to be captured. Hence ending here. :)
~Mayank
4 comments:
i walked thru my friends' blogs today for updates and there i see urs updated with 'pursuit of dreams', a topic close to my heart that i cudn't keep from commenting...
lucky boy who has his dreams fulfilled and weaves another one anew... coz for many, dreams are still dreams only! but i like the gist of it..."live ur present"..true, very true!
@Archu - Thanks for appreciating the post.
Naah, me not so lucky. Those were normal dreams and gets fulfilled for everybody, so nothing lucky or special about me. But off-late, the dreams have stopped fulfilling. Either I have become less lucky or perhaps I have started dreaming too high ;-). Anyways dreaming and chasing them is better than not dreaming.
good thought .. but i would say the dream ususally is not of the child or the individual but that of the family around or the expectation of the society from the individual .. dont you think that ? if not you must be lucky to have been given the freedom to chose!! which is been deprived from most indians ..
@Santi - Yes, you are right. Dreams can be only yours or they may may encompass family's ans society's expectations too. But the intent of this blog post was to emphasize on the fact that we should learn to enjoy our present otherwise life will not be worth living. :)
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