Dream – The Vidyarthi

College life has ended. I am on the verge of entering into a completely new life, a life quite different from what I am used to as of now. A dream from a distant past has been fulfilled : I have become a professional, a working one! But today I realised that there’s no end of dreams;big or small; important or trifling dreams are a constant phenomenon.

Well yes friends, not for the first time in my life, today I say it again : I have a dream. This dream has somehow forced me to think…think about so many things; think about what have I achieved in my life? How have I helped my country? How have I rendered my services to the society? So many questions, but the answer to all of them was a big fat NOTHING. Till now, I have had nothing that I can be proud of truly.

This dream has forced me to think…what next? Is this it? Or is something still remaining? Kya Picture abhi baaki hai mere dost…or has the movie ended and the time has come for the credits to show themselves up? Well I don’t think that its over, I don’t think that the time for giving the credits has come yet…I think its still the formative stage, the dramatic climax is still to come….so keep watching because yes my friends, I have a dream!

I have had many dreams. Some too fanciful to be real. Some rather too optimistic but many that were quite capable of being transformed into a had grown reality…but the transformation rate has been so very low that it hurts!I mean I dreamed of being an IITian and then couldn’t become one, I dreamed of being a cricketer and then just couldn’t become more than just a spare bowler for my branch team! Ha!

Just yesterday while roaming the terrace of my hostel after midnight did I suddenly remember a dream of mine that concerned stars ( i mean those tiny shimmering things up in the sky!!). But then the staunch realist inside me asked a to-the-point question : What have you ever done to achieve it?? I was numbed and silenced, as its true that I haven’t done a thing about it! The lazy brat in me has always won!

Then the thoughts strayed a little bit more. That dream that I saw when i cam into BIT, what of it now? Well its over isn’t it? Yeah quite so! and it is but a rarity that I have no qualms about that one going down the drain….Yeah true!

So all said and done…where do the dreams that break go after being broken? I pondered a lot. I couldn’t make much of a headway. But then I realised, those dreams just die and go where the people go after their deaths, leaving behind naught but memories that haunt you throughout our lives, making us miserable in the times of happiness, making us think how the life could have been different had that dream been realised! Ha! What hypocrisy!! But there is a difference between dead people and dead dreams :- the latter can be re spawned if you have the will while the former can’t. So can I or for that matter anyone re spawn’em? Can’t say anything as I lack exp.

To quote John Lennon :

You may say I’m a dreamer, Well I am not the only one!

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