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“Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.” 

― Langston Hughes  We all have dreams. Few dreams come true while most of them die along the way. Why are we letting them die? If we are to believe William Arthur Ward, the famous American writer, every dream can be achieved. “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.” So, what makes us put our dreams on deathbed?  Standing firm for the sake of our dream is a big deal but are we fueling it? Are we doing what it takes to grab every opportunity we encounter on our journey?  When we were kids, we were free of worries and had a little brain full of dreams. Every day, we used to find a new thing to do, new dream to achieve. I still hear myself loud when I used to tell, ‘I want to be ____________ when I grow up.’ As if everything I dreamed would come true. But there was only hope and desire. There was no fear or doubt about anything. I knew no obstacles, no worries, or any complexities. All I thought was being what I dreamt of. 

That was what we thought when we were kids. But aren’t we lacking the same mindset as a grown up? As we grew up, we started to meet obstacles on our way to our dreams. As a result, we developed fear within us. And that very fear hindered our path to the glory as we could not work with our full potentiality. Moreover, we built a fence ourselves between us and our dreams. We drew boundaries and set limits to our limitless glory. As a grown up, we let negative influences to be in the driver’s seat of our life. Thus, we kept going there where our pessimism took us. And that’s not a very good place to be at.

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist. Stepping out and taking risks is a big deal and it needs to be protected from naysayers and doubters. First we should simply believe in ourselves and gather the courage. We can overcome our fears. We can challenge our hurdles. All we have to do is wash our minds with optimism and lift the self-made restrictions to our goal. Fears = No action = no results. So why not take the actions now and protect our dreams? Let go all the negativities such as fear, doubts and worries and believe in your dreams. Only when we believe in our dreams, we unlock our aspirations trapped by certain fears and disbeliefs. Hold on to your dreams before it is too late. In the end, give yourself two choices. Fuel your dreams or fuel your fear. Life is all about choices you make. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt

Once upon a time, there was a happy tree. He enjoyed life as birds nesting there sang songs of love, hope and glory each day and entertained him. In their soothing melody, branches and leaves of the tree danced and grooved making a sound environment. Be it sunshine or rain, they were all joyous together. Such was the magic that anyone passing by the tree, felt heaven.

One fine day as the birds were singing mellifluously, the leaves and the branches of the tree spread such glee that the air roaming around that very area hurled entirely towards the tree to experience the seventh heaven. But unfortunately, the air accelerated so swiftly that it ended up plucking one of the leaves from the tree. Seeing that, the birds stopped their tune and the tree got into the misery as one of the members was gone, forever. Comprehending the situation, the air apologized and continued its duty to flow taking the detached leaf with it.

On the Other side, the leaf understood that his time was over. He saw his family in pain and same was the case in his side too. But he quickly managed to understand that going back was impossible for him. So all he thought to do was live the limited time he had. He had two choices to make; either live the remaining moment with all he had or waste the time by crying over the inevitable . In the end, he chose to live the remaining moment. He embraced what he had and enjoyed flowing with the air. For the first time in his life, he was so free that he could travel, he flew. He was not fixed at one place, he could see the different horizon, colorful fields, magnificent streams and varieties of trees. Obviously, he missed his family but to keep weeping remembering them was being foolish. So as he approached his last breath and descended from the sky, he remembered and sang the songs that the birds used to sing, he imagined the moves he made with his family and felt the pleasure within and with a smile he rested in peace.

Same as the leaf, we (humans) experience the change far too many times. Often, it is not pleasant. Most of us do not want the change , we usually do not want our comfort zone to alter. But change is the only permanent thing we know. Either we want or not, we should experience it. So, instead of cursing the change, we should be wise enough to not waste the hidden opportunity. Every moment we get is a gift. We should be wise enough to spend it on things that matter. Simply dwelling on unhappy things is just a waste. In the above story, the detached leaf chose to spend his time on happy things rather than dwelling on unhappy things. It’s not what we have got; it’s what we do makes a difference. After all, Life is about choice. We can choose to be a victim or anything else we like to be. Smile

Bhaskar Dhakal

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