Dreaming my life away??.....

I have often heard that we must dream big....I too have dreamed big on occasions, like most, but have either chosen to, or forced myself to come out of the dreamscape, when I realized how fruitless the whole exercise was...I guess, dreamers are people, who believe that their full potential has not yet been exploited by the world, or the ones, who have worked 'hard', but feel that they haven't been appreciated enough...These people are dreaming with open eyes, 'cause they 'want' to believe that there is still hope for them...They 'want' to conquer the world in 'their' own reality, and hope, that when they open their eyes, the dream will take a life of its own and shall continue to live on....

I know, it does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but a man needs to dream none-the-less!!...For dreams are a man's way of defeating the reality, it is something that keeps him sane, when the winds of fortune are not blowing in his favor....The transition from dreaming with eyes open, to a state of dreaming in sleep, is God's way of showing that 'nothing' is impossible in this world...For dreams are the landscape where 'reality' meets 'fantasy', but where fantasies prevail...
 

My dreams take me to places unknown, to places SO beautiful that they make me smile even while I sleep :)...I find myself surrounded by faces familiar, and some unknown, and often wonder on waking up, how they all landed there to begin with!!...And sometimes the CRAZIEST combinations of people, places  and situations form my dreams, and I wake up smiling foolishly, sometimes oddly puzzled and at times full of wonderment at what all my brain could conjure up.....

 

Brain, where the dream world exists, I believe is one place, where 'anything' and 'everything' can happen...The only place in the world, where all our dreams come alive, the only place where we can 'make' our own dreams and live them too :)...The last frontier that remains to be understood and if possible conquered ....A question now....Will there be a time, and place, a medium, where what we dream, the instant we dream it, comes true??...Is such a dream scape a possibility or stuff that fiction writers only dream of??...Is there a world out there, that is solely made of the things that 'we' dream of?? After all what is created must exist somewhere, right?.....A world that is totally of our own making, filled only with people, places and things we love...Things inconceivable, yet plausible; beautiful, yet never ever seen before; so fragile and intriguing, that they can exist nowhere else, except in a dreamscape :)....

My dreams have taken me from the top of the world and to the edge of a tranquil sea innumerable times.......Come to think of it I have even dreamed of a tsunami, with me running away from it holding the hand of someone I held dear....I've been inside weird homes, which supposedly form my abode in that landscape...My dreams have made me re-live my school-time-exam-day terror, where I go to sit for the exam totally unprepared!!...I have even dreamt of a room full of lizards, that were clinging to all surfaces and crawling where ever I walked,  and I remember having woken up covered with sweat just thinking about it...I have met and talked to people long dead, and woken up wondering why and what it all could mean?!....I have visited places that I am not even aware exist in the real world!!...Oh, my dreams have taken me places where I COULD NOT possibly ever be!!...

 

I don't know what my dreams mean, or how they might be interpreted by experts of the field, all I know is that they feel sooo real...Dreams somehow make my life complete...And I know that I have no wish to stop dreaming, be it with eyes wide open or with those shut...And I pity those, who don't dream at all, for they know not what all they are missing out on.....I believe, that it does one good to sometimes 'just dream' and 'not just worry about achieving the dreams'. As long as one has the desire to achieve it, one has everything to gain and nothing to lose....So dream on!! :)....

इंतज़ार .....

घडी की सुइयां, प्यार की दुश्मन लगती हैं,
इंतज़ार सदियों सा, दीदार पल भर का बना देती हैं,
ये कायिनात रुक जाये, जब प्यार का दीदार हो,
अब तो रह- रह कर, दिल की धड़कन यही दुआ किया करती है.....

दर्द का एहसास ....

चोट यूं तो खायी है हमने कई बार,
दर्द के अहसास ने रुलाया भी हमे हर बार,
भूल कर दर्द हर बार उठ जाते थे,
प्यार की मरहम से ठीक हो ही जाते थे I

अब दिल को चोट लगती है,
दर्द होता है, आंसू भी आते है,
प्यार तो मिलता है,  मगर दर्द का ये आलम है,
आ तो गया, मगर जाने का नाम ही नहीं लेता .........

Life an Illusion??.....

Do you ever get the feeling, that you are sometimes living an illusion?!!...When things are going great and all of a sudden something happens, that shakes you up, and you start wondering, if it was all a dream to begin with...Was the past an illusion, and the thing, that stirred you up, the real thing?....Or is it, that the present is just a bad dream, and the past was THE REALITY!!.....The past felt great, SO REAL and yet the myth is dispelled by just a few events, sometimes by even a few random words, which you wish to God never happened :(...Why is our faith in things and people so easily shattered?....Why can't we sometimes just ignore, what could just be an honest mistake on someone else's part?.....Why does disillusionment cause so much anger and pain? Does the truth about things and people have to be harsh and painful always? or is the fool's way of seeing the world with a blindfold to be blamed for all his problems?.......

I believe that life is a matter of choices we make...Would LOVE to be the master of my own choices, but are the choices we make in life, as simple to make, as they are thought to be?!!.... Circumstances, the people in our life, one's nature, upbringing and the need of the hour decide what really is going to be the choice a person makes...We can certainly make our own destiny based on our choices, but it is definitely dependent on a hoard of other things.....

Choice, I have heard, is the illusion between those in power and those without....And that makes perfect sense to me..For I feel powerless to make a choice based just on my like and love of things...Does that make me a weakling ? Or does it show that I need to be headstrong about things and pursue what my heart desires.....And what of bad choices we make all the time? Is it okay to make a bad choice just to keep an illusion - for one's peace of mind, a little pleasure and happiness of  another; or is it a crime to live life according to what others expect of you?......Talking of expectations of others, why do they do that? I mean, it is our life and we need to make the most of this gift, then why can't others just let us be!! And let us live a life not of constant conflict, but of peace and quiet....I know, I am living in a fool's paradise, wishing things were perfect, simple and joyful.....But I know everyone would be happier if they just lived and let live, then where does all the complication come from??...Is it from possessiveness? expectations? and the need to be in power?...or is it just the way all things were meant to work in this universe; each and everyone fighting the other to survive :(....

Wish life was simple, quiet, joyful......Wish there was no struggle....I know some might find it boring and unchallenging, but I would call it blissful...Is expectation of  that kind of a life an illusion or a definite possibility??!!.....