As children, we had many dreams and we thought that they were possible to reach. When adults asked us what we wanted to become or achieve, without any hesitation we would tell them our list of dreams and goals. The adults too were happy to know our aspiration and wishes. They never discouraged us when we were in our early childhood. And it made us believe that really we could reach even to the moon.
But as we grew older and began to feel shy or uneasy about many aspects of life, our dreams and goals seemed to be impossible ones. We began to think that our childhood dreams were merely fantasies and so would never come true. So without any further thinking or research, we gave up our childhood aspirations and began to form new desires and ambition of teenagers.
The early part of our childhood dreams soon faded away and were hard to revive them. Even if we tried to think of them, we lost interest and desire to pursue. Even if we wanted to pursue them, our elders then discouraged us from pursuing them. The adults gave their opinions and we got carried away by their advice. And thus our dreams died in our childhood.
Even when we reached teenage, we formed new dreams and goals but those teenage dreams too were washed away when our peers or elders didn't approve and didn't encourage us. So we began to fit into some peer group that means we began to conform to the opinions of the majority. We wanted to be like what everyone was doing and behaving. If our peers were into smoking, drinking or drugs, we, without much thinking joined the crowd and as we were busy wasting our precious time with friends, we lost the sight of our dreams.
Then comes the time to get married and we have children. Our concern now shifts to take care of the new family. By this time, at last we realize our errors and mistakes and feel guilty and sad for not pursuing our childhood or teenage dreams. We start to think that we would have really accomplished our dreams, had we not lost our focus or interest. It seems now very late to start all over again because we are now in our early thirties or late thirties and in our early forties or late forties. The childhood dreams still look bleak and unachievable.
But what if I say here that early childhood dreams or goals are really achievable and possible. It is never too late to pursue, rather it is the right time to pursue and become successful. We must never give up our original goals, which we dreamt in our childhood or when we were teenagers. Dreams and goals are programs that get imprinted in our unconscious part of the mind and they are available whenever we want to realize them.
I would reiterate here by urging, never ever give up your dreams, rather pursue them till the finish line. Remember always Colonel Harland Sanders, the founder of KFC, when you think that your dreams are not achievable. You may have a large number of professions before becoming a big success and that is not a distraction but rather it a process of construction. And know well that anything that is imprinted in the unconscious part of mind and pursued with great zeal, nothing is impossible.
Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor
