Jyotikalash

Another name of human being is a dream. We visualize things before trying to get it. This process of visualizing or dreaming keeps on motivating us.

A young child may simply have a dream of having a favorite chocolate. A young teenager may dream of going on a trip with peers while for a young adult, the most important dream may be getting a good job or being a manager or earning a lot of money, etc. For a middle aged person, the dream may be to be a parent of a talented, successful and well cultured son or daughter. Or, it may be having the credit of establishing a business or having an image of a knowledgeable and respectable officer, etc.

The important thing to be understood here is in what way we follow our dream is highly important. A young child does nothing to fulfill his dream except requesting his parents to bring him a chocolate. At times, one can simply wait for his fortune to smile at him. These are the ways a child associates himself with his dreams. He simply visualizes his dream object and takes pleasure in imagining that he has got it.
However, as an adult one should realize first of all that a dream is not to be enjoyed simply by visualizing it. Rather, every dream is an examination. A dream is always for something which we do not have at present. So, it puts a demand on us to do something we have not done so far. We have to learn something new and make some extra efforts. After that, what we get in turn is secondary because that is not in our control and there is no surety that even if we get what we wanted, we would be able to sustain it. However, what we learnt and what extra we did in this process can certainly be enjoyed. This is a pure achievement.

Once we have a dream, we should go through the following steps:

• We should evaluate the dream – whether or not it is worth fulfilling. Is it the need of the time? Would others who are related to us in this dream be benefitted if the dream is achieved?

• If the answer to these questions is affirmative, we should question ourselves – what knowledge, quality and skills which this dream demands I already have and what more I need to learn.

• What would be the source and the process of learning? From where should I arrange time to learn something or to do something Extra?

We can add some more relevant questions to this list. The main message to be conveyed here is that the moment we dream of something, it means what we already know and what we are already doing is not sufficient. Perhaps life is calling us by way of a dream to put something more important, something extra to our Being. If a dream is chasing us, we should not take it like a child – requesting someone to get us what we want – we should take our dreams as a demand on us – as an invitation to us to grow in some way and enjoy being something more from within.

.