About Dreams and Life
On New years’ evening, a few of us
friends were out to watch PK. After the movie, I was wondering what people
found so great about this movie. I liked the message it conveyed but that was
it. The high point of that evening was when my dear friend Ashanka told us a
story. It was a very simple story yet it hit me hard! The story goes like this.
There was a landlord and a farmer.
One day they were out for a walk in the fields. The landlord owned vast tracts
of land. He told the farmer “Listen, I am ready to give you as much land that
you can cover on your feet by evening. The only condition is that you must
return to me by sunset. Hearing this, the farmer got ecstatic. He started
running. He did not stop for lunch. Neither did he stop to wish his friends and
family whom he met on the way. There were times when he thought he would drop
dead. He still kept on running. He thought of all the fortune that he and his
family is going to enjoy. It started becoming dark. He reached a point where he
couldn’t run anymore. He stopped and though of returning to the landlord. He
turned back. When he was about to start walking back, he saw the sun was setting.
It was dusk!
I was blown away by this story! Don’t
you think there is a beautiful analogy here? The farmer is us, you and me. The
landlord represents people whom we hold close to us. We all have dreams to
chase, we all have aspirations to realize and we are in a mad rush to make all
that come true. But eventually, we have to return to our family and friends. If
we don’t return; like the farmer in the story, all the efforts that we put in
become half baked. We will be left with a feeling of having worked hard yet
lacking contentment.
Think about this. In all
probability, this is our only Life on the face of earth. The time available with
us is finite. Then why do we attribute more importance to the youth phase of
it? Many of us tend to ignore the twilight period of our lives. How will it
feel to spend the later years of our life with memories of only the efforts
that we have put in to realize our dreams? Won’t we need memories of some
moments which will make us feel warm from within? Only such memories will keep
us spirited and make us feel alive in those times when our social circle
becomes smaller than the years left to live.
As they say, it takes a long time
to grow old friends. I think all of us should strive to find some people be it
friends or family with whom we can spend a soulful time with, when our bucket
list becomes all checked!
Happy Newyear!
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