If your dreams are not ridiculed, maybe they are small

Okay! I agree you have been bombarded with posts of a similar nature and the reason why I am again troubling you is because man has a very mercurial memory pattern. He forgets more than he can remember. We need to be reminded that the being stereotypical is an Indian idiosyncrasy. Let me remind you the clichés in a little offbeat and a very informal manner.

We are told to follow our hearts but are advised and brainwashed into following a herd of people doing a specific thing. I believe hypocrisy is the worst religion of all. Everyone is a hypocrite. What varies is magnitude. Remember how you were told in your childhood how marks would fetch you gifts. At the age of 5-8, you were given your favorite chocolates as a modest reward for your ‘achievements’ in school. Later they translated to action figures and other toys when you were a little older. Come to think of it, it is like striking a very subtle deal by patronizing you that you need to follow what we tell you ahead in life as we have rewarded you so much when you were a little gullible kid. Okay, this appears a little twisted and asinine probably for some but that is the psychology I observed by joining the dots. You are free to criticize.

After going through this phase, if you don’t really follow your heart, you fall into a booby trap of stereotypes. You are made to believe how stereotyping works in your favor from a tender age so that you follow it when you ‘grow up’ physically. Then starts the whole process of college selection, course choosing and relatives’ draggy pearls of experienced wisdom. The situation that arises here reminds me of a line from Survivor’s track Eye of the Tiger which says ‘You trade your passion for glory’. Later the job comes followed by marriage and family life EVEN WHERE your stupid selfish society throws you in a vortex of dogmas. You are not even allowed to contemplate here sometimes. Later you sacrifice your dreams for your kids and you are too tired to even advise them to chase their passions. You throw them in a cesspool of conventions. The vicious cycle repeats and just when you realise you could not do what your heart wanted; the ECG shows a single horizontal line.

It is courageous if a person abandons what people have to comment and think about his choices. It takes guts to follow your heart. Reality is if you have nothing to lose, you are free to try shit! Still, if we channelise our passion in the most constructive way, you can sky-rocket to new heights. Follow conventions if needed but use them to your passion and beliefs. People are there to judge. That’s the best they can do. Their job is to pull you down. S,o just ignore the pessimism and do what you feel good.

I don’t blame Indian parents for disallowing their kid to think out of the box because you see the box is safe and enclosed protecting you. Outside the box is a volley of risks waiting to screw you up. Parents are protective and we find this irritating at times. Truth be told we won’t experience this until our kid comes with a “ridiculous” dream of his/hers.

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