LIVING THE DREAM

“Kindly fasten your seatbelts,” the voice from the speaker was instructing me. The last 6 hours had been a whirlwind and it had barely registered in my mind. As I fastened my seat belts I realised where I was. The adrenalin had carried me through these hours and I had barely felt any emotions, except that the job at hand had to be done. And now in the confines of the plane cabin, physically drained, the emotions surfaced. Luckily I was tied in, or else I would have jumped up. So this was it, I was leaving, in search of destiny, following my call.

This faith is such a funny thing, they say, “Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible”. With only this faith as a guide, I was undertaking this journey. Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men, they say, may be this was my biggest dream ever. You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. But you may have to work for it, however.

Buddha says, “What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do now”. Here I was doing something. Something, which I believed would give me happiness. But here inside the plane, tied to my seat, I realised how wrong one could be. I realised that I had wiped my life’s slate clean and I had to start all over again. I shuddered at the enormity of the task. Did I have it in me?? Self-doubt was gnawing at me. Along with that, the sorrow of going away from home & country, in search of the destined land was catching up.

Sometimes we just wish life could be easier and simpler. Wishing we never had to make these tough choices. “But the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”(Martin Luther King Jr).

By our choices and action, we create the person that we are. Our choices shape our destiny. Without our choices and actions, we could never have learned anything from life. We live, because we choose to live. We dream, because we choose to dream and we act, because we choose, what to and how to act. Our life is a progression of the choices we make.

And here, tied up in a small seat, squirming, I realised …… I had made a choice, a choice to follow my dream. And at that moment I choose to live my dream, come what may.