Sometimes I think it is good to just dream, be a dreamer of sorts. The dream doesn’t have to be a goal or anything. It can just remain as a dream. I mean I really like to do it. It’s been a part of me since I was a child. Just keep on dreaming with your eyes closed. Off late I’ve been dreaming of a particular thing which I feel like I should pen down.
I’ve been dreaming of shifting to a place away from the city for quite a few years. A beautiful hilly region where I’ll have a bungalow on a hilltop(Ruskin Bond-ish, with the family though). The gorgeous sunrise and sunset can be seen everyday. The variety of birds chirping and in the days and the noisy crickets in the nights. I’d be staying there writing whatever I can and practising my meditation and stuff like that. I’ve shared this dream of mine with my wife a lot of times. Sometimes she gets a little miffed and says, ‘Uff ! You and your dreams. How are we going to run the house? What school do we send our son to? What about my parents, uncle-aunt?’ To those I’d generally have no answer to. Well, not yet atleast. She’s absolutely right with her worries though. Any mother, daughter would feel the same thing.
But, the dreams really sort of takes my mind away from everything. It takes me to a place I really like to be in. It takes me away from the daily hustles of life. It works as a stress buster, makes me forget time and ofcourse as you can see now, it has given me that urge to write about it and share it to the world as well. In short, dreaming makes me forget about the reality of life. But then what is reality. It is nothing but what you make of things.
Coming back to dreams, I guess sometimes it is necessary to let the mind do its job without having to guide it or resist it. Let it take you to wherever it wants to take you, if it’s somewhere which makes you happy, which generally is not ill-intentioned. Ultimately if man is a thinking being, then why try to stop the device to think ? Makes no sense to me atleast. It’s like clipping the wings of a bird. And if by not resisting it actually takes you to a particular place most of the time then that is what maybe you really desire in life. So that way you’re also able to find out your goal by not resisting your mind to wander off and dream on. Iguess, ultimately the choice is always individual, whether you want the water to flow and let it take its course or you want build a damn and direct the flow.
Om Shanti..?