Eleanor Roosevelt was a very influential women of the 20th century America, FDR's constant friend, political advisor, and above all a reformist to the core. An UN Diplomat , Humanitarian and US First Lady , once at a state dinner she was asked to speak and made a statement “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.......The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams". I have always believed in this edifice in life and the poster next to my computer table where an airplane is taking off with those beautiful words written underneath have been a perennial source of inspiration and joy. Something that has given me the strength to face the darkest hours of life, moments when I have felt low or felt like escaping from the shackles of the mundane life into the freedom of wilderness. It has inspired me to dream and in a sense some of these dreams had so strong a conviction in them that over a period of time, I started believing in them in a way as if they are tomorrow's reality.....and have visualised many a tomorrow through the kaleidoscope of these dreams......Not long ago a friend of mine questioned If i believed in dreams adding a word of caution as always , not to dismiss them with " I am too busy for such flimsy thing" attitude.......most certainly I won't do as my friend apprehended....and the reply is in the form of this post which shall not only sketch out my opinion but reflect upon that dimension of life that has been my best friend in worst moments.....conspicuously these dreams have sprouted within and have grown into animated creatures with limbs and legs and have been in a state, much like the colloid particles in Brownian motion.....
In fact, a dream is not an isolated thing , thought or an idea that germinates in the mind of a man during his sleep hours and withers out before the first light of the dawn.....dreams are pieces of our hopes, aspirations, conscious and sub-conscious desires. And a in a way much like any other object with a form, dreams too have dimension..... it reminds me of reading Gregori Antonovich Gamov...popularly known as George Gamow.....an american( of Russian descent) theoretical physicist and cosmologist...who had suggested the idea of Multi-Dimensions where with his not-so-sophisticated setup of the 1950s suggested the moving shadow as the Fourth Dimension .....from where comes the word 4D........Much like Gamow's imagination, dream is a multidimensional phenomenon....arising from our Desires.......arousing in us fundamental Doubts, giving rise to double edged Dilemmas and often ends up in Determination or Desperation and the path we choose(between determination and desperation) decides the fate of our Dreams.....some would again like to argue here, that fate is nothing but our Destiny......so in a way dreams are connected to a web of Ds....each one of them functional as pivotal axis.....upon which depends the way our life's revolve......sounds Greek at this stage?....well this was a metaphorical comparison where I have tried to draw a chord joining science and philosophy.....in a way I think is very healthy. The symbiosis of science with philosophy has always kept me excited because if scientific reasoning is applied to comprehend philosophy it becomes much easier.....and rational....
Apart from this metaphorical bridge.....in my personal life I stand straight with the conviction that dreams can conquer realities if we strive with great determination to achieve them. And it is that courage to dream big that puts us ahead of others in the next moment.....but the story never ends in simply conceiving the dream, otherwise the idiomatic use of day-dreamer would have long ago been in its grave......Honest effort is what the courage to dream calls for...not necessarily all my dreams will come true, neither will all of them go in vain....But I must be honest enough in chasing or pursuing them to the point I can, and then perhaps rest my case in the hands of that unseen unified controlling equation that governs the energy of the universe.....till then i must try.....i must strive.....i must believe.....that dreams will and God willing they truly will come true someday.....struck amidst the intellectual populace much of whom are up in arms fighting against each other vowing for the top spot on the lonely hill top by the year end......it is the beauty of my beautiful dreams that keep me ticking...that makes me believe that this battle of nerves is not the end result of our intentions....not the end result of our dreams.....it is but, only the beginning and in a mortal world where intentions alone do not matter the magnum.....a top spot would not necessarily mean mission accomplished....but for those who dream with such ferocity...I appreciate them....for in their perspective they have the intent and the passion to chase it......and I truly entertain a great admiration for such people deep down in my heart.....but as I said earlier.....determination and desperation direct our efforts in the same direction but only in a differentiable amplitude and in a different phase....(phase as in a trigonometric function being differentiated over a limit , showing phase difference to be in-sync or out-of-phase....preferably a Sin function where Sin x tends from infinity to zero...).... I dream of a tomorrow....in a lonely hill station listening to the chirrup at the crack of dawn.....i dream of a small English cottage where i have a cute study room , all to myself.....I dream of a tomorrow...when I can go for a trip to one of those quiet hamlets in the swiss alps .....I dream of a tomorrow....when i am freed from the shackles of these pseudo-intellectual gibberish......and for them I do have a design and the way is well charted out.... so in a nutshell......I have a beautiful dream and I cherish and nurture it delicately so that it blooms tomorrow to be the prettiest flower in life's garden.........till then keep dreaming and keep believing in them....wish that they come true and strive for them.....and we Deserve to get what we Desire in our Dreams if only we believe in them....the future belongs to those isolated species of people who are dreamers......
gud nite and sweet dreams
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