Reaching There

Continuing from my previous post about trying to define a dream and some basic reasons behind our dreams. In this post I'll try to explore the types of dreams we have and can we align the different types of dreams into a single wholesome dream? The world has been continuously changing ever since the man decided to explore his surroundings. As a human being we like living in a small world of our own. We try to make our professional and personal lives as comfortable for ourselves as we can. But in the very thought of making our lives more comfortable lies the inevitable change from the current. Sometimes this change is difficult to comprehend from our "sensible" mind so we dream about it! So we can say that a dream is an instrument of change. The question that arises next is what are the "things" we can change using this instrument? To understand this we have to delve into our everyday life. In today's world an everyday life is lived at various fronts. But her...

A dream is a cherished desire within us which always gives us with a hope of doing something better with our life. As a kid we've fantasies of becoming a fighter pilot or an astronaut when we grow up. As a kid we're influenced by movies and our childhood dreams are normally of gigantic proportions. Would a kid dream of becoming a mechanical engineer (by the way I've a mechanical engineering degree) or a dentist (and I knew a very smart guy who is a dentist)? Although the answer is "no" but there are two important underlying aspects associated with it. First of all as a kid we're used to dreaming big, the reason being we haven't faced failures in our lives. Secondly we don't know how the world really works, for kids the world is a giant circus. As a giant circus the kids see the clowns, bears, elephants believing this is the reality. We don't understand the clown is a guy who has to make a living out of it and the animals are living a life of captiv...