DREAMS....

My favourite quote about dreams....the kind that one wishes to work hard for and bring true is:

“Dreams are not those you get while sleeping. Dreams are those that don't let you sleep”

It may sound extremely metaphorical but anyone who has had a Real dream must have practically liven this quote. I have. I remember having a significant job interview and a comparatively trivial decision of having my home selected as an entry for an interior designing website, both happening almost the same day. And I found myself sleepless at nights thinking how wonderful my simple bedroom would look on the website I browse everyday, instead of burning midnight oil over anticipating job interview questions. And there was another sleepless night when I had unofficially received my first interiors project of designing a friend’s cousin’s daughter’s room. And then many sleepless hours and nights of excitement when I was doing up my own home - my dream project.

Such is the power of dreams. They creep through behind your eyes when you are day dreaming about how you want your life to be and before you know they capture your mind so strongly that all you know, all you have and all you want to know and have revolves around this dream.

I believe every individual should have a dream like this or what they call - “the greater calling”. Its a shame that we become so busy running the rat race that we get detached with even our own self. We hardly find or more significantly realise the need to make time to find our greater calling. Sure, some dreams may not be capable of paying one’s bills or bringing meals to the table but they are a very good (in my case, the best) way to know and stay connected with oneself. I have a dream and though I dont know when it will come true but I am protecting it. Everyday like a little plant I am nurturing it, watering it and whenever I find time fertilizing it so that it does not die before I do. I know one fine day when the time is right, beautiful lavender flowers will bloom out of it. I can see that in my mind’s eyes where it all began.

There are small dreams and then there are big dreams. But one that captures all - make that dream your “dream” no matter how big or small. Even if you feel you will never be able to make it there, dont lose it. Just protect it because every single day when you do so, you unknowingly start working towards it in your own simple tiny ways. And soon it becomes a part of your life. And it is way better to live your dream in bits and pieces everyday rather than losing it forever. Who knows your dream might like you liking it so much that it might come true for you...

VALUE...

Time and again this question has crossed the depths of my mind that what do we value most in our lives...Is it true that we realise the real worth of something only after we have lost it.

There may be numerous opinions about this but one thing that remains the matter of the fact is Loss plays a big role in understanding the value of what we possess at the moment. Untill we have lost in our lives, untill we have gone through the extreme pain of the emptiness of someone or something missing in our incomplete lives, we might as well not know how to value the people we should cherish in our lives. The intensity of the loss is the feeling that somewhere teaches and implants the feeling of equally intense love for the people we have. It would have been so much simpler and so much less painful if we need not have to lose something worthwile to gain this wisdom of worth.

Anytime in my life, when I feel that I am not valuing a person as much, I just put myself to think of how dreadful my life would have been in the absence of that person and the next moment I find myself loving and valuing the person a thousand times more.

Equally true is the fact that we do not know what we are missing in lives untill we have it. But to possess and not value is the biggest irony.

We may desire a thousand things in life but unless we learn to value the few things we already possess, none of our fulfilled desires will ever make us happy. Do not wait to lose something before you begin valuing everything else in life, because you never know - That Something might be your Everything...

SOULMATE..

“While standing on the beach that evening watching the sunset; absorbing the beauty of the only scenery that’s beautiful even though its an expression of setting down; and trying to understand the feeling within that makes you feel you are standing near horizon, the feeling that brings tears in your eyes without a reason-there was something stronger that was going within me- the urge to have someone standing by my side holding my hand and sharing with me all those feelings without speaking a word...having someone whose presence would make that moment perfect and whose absence diminished the vigor of everything else that was perfect around me...

Its so the law of nature that a person who is destined to come into the world alone and leave the world alone, seeks for a companion in his life…Every soul seeks a soulmate…a mate of his soul…a soul that is never destroyed…a soul that is the utmost pure identity of a living being…a soul that has its free will away from the conditioning of the human world…a soul whose feelings are free of the acquired wisdom of the laws created for human existence…for its only soul that can feel without bias, the depth of any feeling that a heart experiences… And so when one finds a soulmate, the love is felt by the heart and by the soul in its most free and purest form, for it is not recognized by how the two got moulded in the past years but by the eternal union that has existed without any beginning or end…

The waves of the sea rolling over my feet, the gentle touch of dusk wind against my face, the last bright rays of the day and my arms I used to hug myself on that touching moment were none able to suffice for what my soul was seeking- an immense sea of pure love to drench my soul, the soothing caress of immortal affection, the never fading light of blissful togetherness and the warm tender arms to hold me strong …all this that I knew existed somewhere else…all this that I knew existed with MY SOULMATE… “