I just read an article on Facebook and would like to recommend that to all in case you’ve missed…check this. The past one year has been a bit difficult and different for me in many aspects, but there are certain things that I’ve truly learnt in those days, one of them certainly is to know to “dream”. Sounds silly and easy, I assure you it’s not.
There aren’t many people in this world I admire or follow, but I’d recommend a blog for people who like “reading” – this one. He is a private tutor of English in my city, and lets not concentrate on what he is or what he does, but truly admirable is his writing skills! What he had taught us in his time was simple – “DREAM, AND DREAM BIG…HAVE HIGH AMBITIONS!!!“
Ambitions – last year I met a brilliant boy in my neighborhood, asked him his ambition and he replied – “To study in IIT Kgp, and get a good job in Infosys..”
I didn’t expect anything better! That’s the problem of our student-hood and youth alike. They dream of getting to a good college, and then somehow a job, and then….finished, nothing more! They forget that the figures under whom they serve like the Tatas, Birlas, Ambanis etc. never got to study in either an IIT or an IIM! But we, after proving that we are academically more “developed” than them, end up working under them! I’m not saying everyone has to be a Jamshedji Tata or a Dhirubhai Ambani, but what amuses me is the “ambition-level” of these guys, what is wrong in trying to achieve something big?
What amazed me more was that these guys are pretty happy doing the same thing – the same thing as the remaining mass, the only difference maybe he earns a bit more than the others, just because he is an IITian or an IIM pass-out. Few realize that a person studying in the premium Colleges of India has much more capability than an average guy, but in spite of that he ends up doing much the same thing precisely…A student who had wanted to be a cricketer ends up being an Engineer, and keeps on doing his job happily without the slightest grief that his long-cherished dream of becoming a sportsman has reached its graveyard – only because the customary way of students “succeeding” in their lives is by studying in an Engineering/Medical College and becoming an Engineer/Doctor..bang – game over!!! His parents are overjoyed, he himself enjoys as if there’s no tomorrow, without ever reflecting in his life that a far far happier life always laid ahead of him only waiting to be taken, he either never previewed it or did not have the guts to go against his parents’ decision to become what they wanted him to become!
What amazed me more was that these guys are pretty happy doing the same thing – the same thing as the remaining mass, the only difference maybe he earns a bit more than the others, just because he is an IITian or an IIM pass-out. Few realize that a person studying in the premium Colleges of India has much more capability than an average guy, but in spite of that he ends up doing much the same thing precisely…A student who had wanted to be a cricketer ends up being an Engineer, and keeps on doing his job happily without the slightest grief that his long-cherished dream of becoming a sportsman has reached its graveyard – only because the customary way of students “succeeding” in their lives is by studying in an Engineering/Medical College and becoming an Engineer/Doctor..bang – game over!!! His parents are overjoyed, he himself enjoys as if there’s no tomorrow, without ever reflecting in his life that a far far happier life always laid ahead of him only waiting to be taken, he either never previewed it or did not have the guts to go against his parents’ decision to become what they wanted him to become!
I was fortunate enough to be given the freedom to decide my own course, but even I went on as if blindfolded till a very recent time, when I actually realized the blunder…Now after passing out from college, I’ll be wise enough to decide on the path that I’ll take based on what I really want to do in my life. I’m thankful to the Almighty for enlightening me, I hope I won’t become another of the type described above.