Dreams….yet another mystery?!

What are dreams? This is a common question that haunts every enlightened being who searches for his ‘true’ self in today’s materialistic World.

Are dreams what our mind envisions when we are asleep? Or, are they our perception of our lives. Whatever they are, they have not failed to haunt man even in the quantum leap of the 21^st Century. These dubious creatures never fail to leave us awestruck; seldom they give us a ray of hope. At times they question us and at times give our lives a new meaning.

Dreams make me chuckle, personally; I find them ironical! I have always perceived them as deluders. All night long one is kept in the picture-perfect world of hope and contentment, upon the opening of the eye; the harsh brutalities and realities of this grueling World have to be endured.

Their spell does not wear away here, many a times day dreaming spoils our day. Doesn’t it? One’s day to day life becomes daunting the moment our mind starts to daydream. From a very subtle life, one sets a foot in a World which does not belong to him or perhaps never shall! Dreams tend carry them away from the candid reality and act as a powerful-addictive drug!

Ironically, dreams act as a ray of hope; they give a person the bleakest of hope, bringing their “American” or “London” dreams more close to them. But at what cost, that; fate decides!

Very often, I am haunted by the words ‘destiny’, ‘fate’, ‘fortune’ and etc, and why should not I be? They very mischievously rattle with one’s precious life but also tinker with one’s inner self! It forces you to contemplate over reality and cruelly cripple our dreams under their weight. And no sooner than later, our destiny intrudingly   poses a question on our lives; “What I dreamt of… what is really mine to live? Was I worth it? Have I not learned lessons from my life? Do I yet again, have to be deceived by the hands of fate?”

All these questions become one’s nightmare and forcibly leave one heartbroken. All of our ascetic desires come crippling down before our very own eyes. Very often we are hushed by the phrase’ “You can’t fight with your fate, but you can change your destiny!” As ironical it may seem, but this is a dismal reality of life. A rainbow is seen but that too disappears just as soon this World shows its’ true colours.

All said, one cannot deny the power of dreams; for they give hope, a desire; a desire to live and strive to turn the impossible in a possibility! What Mr. M.A. Jinnah had envisioned seventy years back, we live it today. Man dreamt of stepping on the moon someday and finally on July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong lived it. Then again, the most sullen part, we dream for years and they end in a short while.

Again, one is left to dream; and why not! It is only hope that makes one go on in life!