What if someone told you that your success is an outcome of your luck? Is that enough for you to lash out and explain how your hard work and dedication have gotten you to the position where you are right now? What if I told you that your success is indeed a product of two contradictions? So why is the nature of your success contradictory? Before you could understand that, let's take a couple of minutes to get to know these contradictions. Contradiction 1: Your belief that it's your hard work and countless sleepless nights that have abled you to climb that success ladder and stand at the top. But, on the other hand, Contradiction 2: Your awareness that Contradiction 1 is a lie and your luck has played an important role in getting you where you are. This antithetical concept is the Success Paradox. But why does your success require to be paradoxical? The truth is, it doesn't. But it's the best approach that one should take to remain in touch with reality. It is human natu...
Time
flies when you are having fun, and it almost stops when life becomes hard. This
might be the best proof of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. In
life, each of us has to go through our own battles. What might look trivial to
someone may be as important as life itself to someone else. Have you ever
noticed how the memories of recent years from your past appear to be longer
than your much older memories? As you go further and further into the past,
your memories look to be more and more compressed. This is because as we get
older, more and more memories take up space in our minds and become a part
of our life. To illustrate, consider this example, a 20 years old person has
almost fifty percent of their memories to be about their young and adolescent
life, in contrast to a 50 years old person whose adolescent life form only 20
percent of all of their memories. So, as we get older, time surely feels to
have flown by fairly quickly. So one can’t help but wonder, how much time do
they really have to live the life of their dreams? But, can someone actually
live the life of their dreams? What does it require to fulfill dreams? For that, a
person must be acquainted with their dreams. And this is not an easy task.
There are many kinds of dreams and a person can have several dreams of each
kind. In order to bring dreams to reality, they first need to be brought inside
the realm of achievability. I know people say nothing is impossible, but one
should be very careful with what one wants to achieve. A person adamant about
breathing in a vacuum will never be able to realize his dream. Once a realistic
dream is identified, it needs to be cultivated with effort. Nothing is free in
this world, not even dreams. For their realization, it is very essential that
one must put in efforts and not be afraid of sacrifices that will surely knock
at their doors. Along with this, patience is going to be the greatest ally in
this journey. A house is not built in a day, someone must put the first brick
with utmost belief and gradually build on it. Once you have all these
prerequisites lined up, there is still no guarantee that your dreams will one
day become reality. Just because you’re putting in effort into something you
want doesn’t mean that you are the only one doing that. It’s like a race, you
have to work on yourself, as well as be far better than everyone else. That is
what it takes to go from one day to day one.
Don’t
get me wrong, I am not trying to discourage anyone from following their dreams.
I am just drawing a contrast between life and the dream itself. Just like I
said, life flies, but what do dreams do? They crawl. They beat you down
to the ground, they personally introduce you to rock-bottom, they compel you to
sacrifice and sometimes even make life miserable. But, the people who are mad
enough to go through the time of this torture are actually the people who know
that the satisfaction they will receive from the gratification of their dreams
is incomparable to anything else in the world.
One
might argue that if this is what it takes to reach your dream life then, is
it even worth it? One might not be having an intimate relationship with his
dream. It’s the same argument as someone saying that they can google the image
of the top of the Himalayas and hence need not climb it. Dreams are made up
of sweat, tears, and blood. They pull you out from your comfort zone and throw
you into the world of uncertainty and pain, all because you dare to think big.
That is why you are supposed to chase the dream in pursuit of your happiness. Do
you ever wonder why it goes like this – Pursuit of happiness! Maybe, the
multimillionaire stockbroker Chris Gardner, whose life was portrayed by the
actor Will Smith, has the answer. As he put it…
“That
maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually
never have it.”
He
also achieved happiness in the latter part of his life. And yes! He actually
struggled, but never gave up on the pursuit of his dreams, his happiness. And
this brings us to the last ingredient of what dreams are made of… Persistence!
I’ll have to take back a few words of mine though. Dreaming and trying to live
your dream life is not a race as I claimed above. It’s a marathon. The only
thing that matters is the answer to the question which goes something like this,
Do you have what it takes to be persistent?
If
the answer to the above question is yes, then you have the power to bring your
dreams to reality. And this is what dreams do, they beat you down… to build you
up.
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