I recently visited my college group photo. Initially, it amazed me but eventually flash back of memories had started making my vision diluted. All those days and all those moments I could see right in front of my eyes; all those pranks and lunch time masti, lab hours and those 4 hours of up-down. Those were indeed wonder years. Every beat and every bit that I had spent during my college tenure is still alive in a corner of my heart.
I too had a group during my college days. We used to make plans. We used to discuss about upcoming movies, we used to discuss and plan out for places unvisited, we used to talk about restaurants that serve tempting food. But those were only discussions. After each and every discussion, every time we ended it up with a very common statement:-” DAD will say no” or “Mom will get angry” or “I have file work to complete”. Every time we have had a reason to refuse what we actually wanted to do. Every time helplessly I had explained to myself:-”Maulik! It’s okay. May be this is not the right time. May be career should be the prime focus and I should concentrate in it. I will cherish all my dreams after I will secure Job in some MNC with a healthy package”.
The only moving material on this world is time. One fine day, I completed my engineering and luckily got a job in an MNC. As my plans were still alive, I started dreaming about the execution of those plans. First salary came and gone. Second salary came and gone. But execution was still a dream. Though friends were not physically around but still mobile communication was witnessing the discussion about those plans, those restaurants, those places unvisited. Again! History repeated; revised recklessness. Surprisingly, excuses were still there but this time characters rather rulers have got changed. This time we dropped our plans by saying: “BOSS will not grant leaves” or “I don't have sufficient leave balance” or “I have product release this month” or “I have list of task to complete”.
The feel jolted my mind. I lost my self in a dark distress. I asked myself:-”Maulik! You planned rather sacrificed your college life just to get enough stability and ability to rule your life and somehow you have achieved it and now when you have enough money in your pocket to spend, when you have enough reasons to cherish your dreams, you still are a helpless boy having excuses in mind and regret in heart for not joining your group. Firstly, Mom and dad, pending practical were ruling your life that is understood but now Bosses, deployment, releases, to-do lists are ruling your life. Why? Is your life that busy? Is your life that monotonous? Have you become machine? Question remained unanswered.
I just started thinking about the future. I was just trying to find some excuses that could provide some decent relief. I talked to myself:-”brother, let me work for 10-15 more years, let me make some money, wealth for my future would be and my children. When I will secure all these, will surely execute all my dreams and plans, but suddenly, my father's face appeared in front of my eyes. He was laughing. I asked myself in shock: - “What was that?” and the answer ignited.
My father was the same during his early career days. He also had so many dreams to achieve but like me he also have had excused to refuse the execution. He also had the same plan which I have for my future. But when he secured all his responsibilities successfully, when after making money for his wife and children, when He was ready to jump in the scene of freedom to explore all his un-lived dreams; he got caught by diseases. Still he was firm to explore what he had decided but he refused it all again with excuses like :”DOCTOR will not allow me to go” or “ At this age my body will not tolerate all this” or “ I have some social functions to attend” or “I have my grand children to look after”.
Ask yourself friend, whatever I have shared here, don't you think is right? You must have experienced the same often in your life. Now sit and think: why we are dependent on a ruler and why can't we rule our own life? Why can't we just take a pause from our daily routine to explore what exactly we have lived with? Why Dreams we are living for is more important than Dreams we have always lived with? From our successful birth to grief stricken death, we are being ruled and failed to become ruler. And at the end, somewhere on the bed in a hospital, counting their final breaths, I have seen people regretting for those un-lived dreams, unexplored dream places, for the tempting food. So now it’s up to us to decide; what we want? A present with a tolerable stress because of those applied leaves to explore our dreams or the future with dark idleness full of regret and repentance for not executing dreams and wishes. If you think option one is a deal to go then, do not waste a single moment.
Open you notepad; recall all your dreams, plans, wishes that you had discussed with your friends or family. Pull out your mobile phones, call your hilarious, mischievous, loud but loving friends, plan it out, bang it on and just live every single leave that you are going to apply for this as the day you wanted to live forever.
Think about it
Thats it
~Maulik Trivedi
I too had a group during my college days. We used to make plans. We used to discuss about upcoming movies, we used to discuss and plan out for places unvisited, we used to talk about restaurants that serve tempting food. But those were only discussions. After each and every discussion, every time we ended it up with a very common statement:-” DAD will say no” or “Mom will get angry” or “I have file work to complete”. Every time we have had a reason to refuse what we actually wanted to do. Every time helplessly I had explained to myself:-”Maulik! It’s okay. May be this is not the right time. May be career should be the prime focus and I should concentrate in it. I will cherish all my dreams after I will secure Job in some MNC with a healthy package”.
The only moving material on this world is time. One fine day, I completed my engineering and luckily got a job in an MNC. As my plans were still alive, I started dreaming about the execution of those plans. First salary came and gone. Second salary came and gone. But execution was still a dream. Though friends were not physically around but still mobile communication was witnessing the discussion about those plans, those restaurants, those places unvisited. Again! History repeated; revised recklessness. Surprisingly, excuses were still there but this time characters rather rulers have got changed. This time we dropped our plans by saying: “BOSS will not grant leaves” or “I don't have sufficient leave balance” or “I have product release this month” or “I have list of task to complete”.
The feel jolted my mind. I lost my self in a dark distress. I asked myself:-”Maulik! You planned rather sacrificed your college life just to get enough stability and ability to rule your life and somehow you have achieved it and now when you have enough money in your pocket to spend, when you have enough reasons to cherish your dreams, you still are a helpless boy having excuses in mind and regret in heart for not joining your group. Firstly, Mom and dad, pending practical were ruling your life that is understood but now Bosses, deployment, releases, to-do lists are ruling your life. Why? Is your life that busy? Is your life that monotonous? Have you become machine? Question remained unanswered.
I just started thinking about the future. I was just trying to find some excuses that could provide some decent relief. I talked to myself:-”brother, let me work for 10-15 more years, let me make some money, wealth for my future would be and my children. When I will secure all these, will surely execute all my dreams and plans, but suddenly, my father's face appeared in front of my eyes. He was laughing. I asked myself in shock: - “What was that?” and the answer ignited.
My father was the same during his early career days. He also had so many dreams to achieve but like me he also have had excused to refuse the execution. He also had the same plan which I have for my future. But when he secured all his responsibilities successfully, when after making money for his wife and children, when He was ready to jump in the scene of freedom to explore all his un-lived dreams; he got caught by diseases. Still he was firm to explore what he had decided but he refused it all again with excuses like :”DOCTOR will not allow me to go” or “ At this age my body will not tolerate all this” or “ I have some social functions to attend” or “I have my grand children to look after”.
Ask yourself friend, whatever I have shared here, don't you think is right? You must have experienced the same often in your life. Now sit and think: why we are dependent on a ruler and why can't we rule our own life? Why can't we just take a pause from our daily routine to explore what exactly we have lived with? Why Dreams we are living for is more important than Dreams we have always lived with? From our successful birth to grief stricken death, we are being ruled and failed to become ruler. And at the end, somewhere on the bed in a hospital, counting their final breaths, I have seen people regretting for those un-lived dreams, unexplored dream places, for the tempting food. So now it’s up to us to decide; what we want? A present with a tolerable stress because of those applied leaves to explore our dreams or the future with dark idleness full of regret and repentance for not executing dreams and wishes. If you think option one is a deal to go then, do not waste a single moment.
Open you notepad; recall all your dreams, plans, wishes that you had discussed with your friends or family. Pull out your mobile phones, call your hilarious, mischievous, loud but loving friends, plan it out, bang it on and just live every single leave that you are going to apply for this as the day you wanted to live forever.
Think about it
Thats it
~Maulik Trivedi
