"Happiness depends upon ourselves." Aristotle
If you want to be happy in your life, you must pursue your childhood love, dreams, goals, activities, interests and hobbies because that is where your heart lies. When children are born, they are born with unique intelligence and talents. They are born with a purpose, a mission to accomplish but as they grow up over the years they lose the sight of their childhood dreams, goals, interests and hobbies. They don't fail to convert them because they get influenced by external world.
In order to be happy, you need to convert your love, dreams, interests and hobbies into a reality so that you stay true to yourself. If you don't pursue your childhood dreams then you are not being true to your calling, talents and intelligence. Many people graduate from the schools and colleges but they sacrifice their childhood hobbies and instead go after what their parents and friends expect them to do. For instance, the children listen to what their parents tell them to study and then thereby choose a profession accordingly. It is attractive to choose a profession which pays huge salary but after a while it won't make the person happy. There is no real work satisfaction. They find hard to get up in the morning to go to the office because it is not what they wanted when they were small.
These days many professionals have less and less time to enjoy a decent vacation with their families because they are very busy at their work. It doesn't seem to be their dream jobs because it doesn't make them happy. They work only with their head ignoring their hearts. These people could have easily converted their childhood fantasies, hobbies and interests if they had really pursued them. They would have been able to innovate new ways to do business or new ways to market the products, if they had followed what they loved when they were small.
Steve Jobs pursued what he loved and similarly Bill Gates followed what he loved. They were able to convert their interests, hobbies, dreams and desires into a reality and today they have become so valuable that all people dream to be like them. Wright Brothers are another great examples who pursued what they desired and dreamed as children and they succeeded in realizing their dreams. It certainly made them happy and content with what they did. Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and many other great people converted what was very close to their hearts and that in turn gave them great happiness.
Don't be dismayed by others who kill your childhood aspirations and interests. Pursue them till you convert them into a reality because this will make you happy forever. It is within your reach and your happiness depends entirely upon you. Your childhood aspirations, hobbies and interests are powerful enough to make you very successful in life.
Don't shy away from pursuing and converting your childhood dreams, desires and interests for you can turn them into a reality just like J.K. Rowling, the great novelist who transformed her life by pursuing her childhood love to write and today you know what is the real outcome or final result. Don't take your dreams and hobbies for granted. They represent you and you are on a mission to do something extraordinary in the world.
Alwed Ekka
Guide Coach Mentor
