Audacious Hope & It's Old Friend - Dreams.

Hopes and dreams are old friends that walk hand in hand since the beginning of time. Born in the heart and flourished in the mind, these two can lead one into worlds unknown.

I have never seen anything more persistent than the audacity of hope. No matter what life throws at you, your tears may have dried, heart shattered into a million pieces, your trust ripped like a piece of paper and tossed aside, your love never reciprocated and always humiliated…. hope creeps up, peeks through your heart and whispers: It’s going to be okay.

There is a saying in Urdu which says something along the lines “The world goes around on the basis of hope.” It’s a curse because it won’t let you experience the depth of your sorrows, mourn your losses. But I think it’s in fact a blessing in disguise too, which won’t let you plunge into the darkness of its ever-devouring enemy: despair

The sole source of this feeling, of surely seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, is no doubt one’s faith in the Creator. Sometimes you are just tested with hard times, only to taste the true sweetness of the rewards coming your way, just like how a famished person finds even a mere morsel of bread to be a delicacy. Deprivation can be a great teacher.

So, don’t give up, I know it sounds cliché, but you will see. Yes, it is easier said than done, but the sun does shine a little brighter after a dark cloudy night.

Then, as the flame of hope alights, we naturally start leaning towards dreams and aspirations. The thought of what ‘could be’ or what the future holds sparks the wondering mind. We start putting our energies towards the expected goals. My view is a sort that complies with the following quote “Expectation is the root of all heartache”. It is controversial as to who is the owner of this quote, some claiming it to be Shakespeare’s, but that is a discussion for another day.

So, moving on, everyone encourages dreaming and that one should work hard to make those dreams come true. But we should try to set-in some practicality as well. Dreams are expectations coloured with imagination and wound with care. They are filled with the heart’s happiness and beauty of the unexpected being so realistic.

But I have learnt through harsh experiences that at times one should NOT DREAM….. or at least not have any unrealistic expectations.

When one builds that world of dreams with so much thought and reckless emotions, it makes a special place in your life. The hard part comes when one word, sentence or thought shatters the entire existence of that fairy-tale into pieces. You are left in complete doubt, confused about which are the pieces of this devastated world that you want to keep, and which are those that you must abandon. With a wounded soul and a broken heart, you don’t know how many injuries you can bear on your hands while picking up those shattered pieces.

There are no boundaries to dreaming, but it’s time we all learn to set some. If one wishes to live without losing pieces of our souls, then thinking a little more practically helps a lot. Innocent dreams do harm to such an extent that nothing hurts more than their existence not coming to life.

Yes, my dear, you may dream, but sprinkle a little practical thought onto that delicious cupcake which can then have a better chance to be baked to perfection, with a happy ending frosting.

P.S. Dare to dream, but with your mind and eyes open ;p

Regards,

Qpoetic