Chase your dreams... : Blog # 1

        Chase your dreams...         

   Celebrated actors, Illustrated artists, Eminent academicians, selfless activists...I have often wondered what keeps them going? The most predictable answer is one of the most abused words – Passion! I don’t buy that. Lesser mortals like us are also passionate about something or the other. But why don’t we achieve those heights?        

         

   Is it the fact that they are charismatic? Yes, there are some people who are born with that ‘spark’ .Those who can effortlessly make people take a liking to them and turn them in their favour. But not everyone is charismatic and attributing that same reason for all their achievements will be unfair.

  Think about it a bit more and a more logical answer appears to be their Perseverance - the urge to be at it, the desire that is ignited continually. It is said that a space vehicle faces maximum resistance during ‘atmospheric entry’. There is an analogy between this and a person’s ability to keep striving to achieve excellence. Many of us would have reached close but blame it on us being myopic, we would have given up quarter a mile before the goal.         

  

A by product of perseverance, the conviction to not bring down even by a notch, the level of achievement that will bring them contentment. Many of us settle down for a lesser level of achievement or bring down our life’s goals so as to make ourselves happy.

And yes, of course the courage to tread the path less traversed. If there is someone to positively reinforce that courage, count yourself blessed.

Those who have tasted success  has the intellect to understand consistent striving will take one to a stage that becomes self driving and that it will give enough buoyancy to keep going.

Chase your dreams, backed by an equal measure of longing and nothing will ever stop you.

                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                      Arun Babu.

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