Since the dawn of civilization mankind has been inquisitive to unravel the mysteries of nature. In an attempt to visualize beyond the perceptible, humans have often breached the boundaries of convention and ventured into territories hitherto unexplored. While many factors contribute to our inquisitiveness for exploration, a significant proportion comes from our ability to dream. Dreams are visions, they are the frameworks that guide us through the journey of life and they often exhibit a tendency of disregard for the status quo. While in some cases this tendency takes shape of constructive creativity, it often translates into unrealistic expectations and culminates at repentance and misery. Wisdom decides the fate of our dreams, for wisdom determines the interpretation of dreams and this interpretation then leads to expectations and desires. Most of us misinterpret dreams within the perceptible boundaries of our wisdom. How can we perceive the boundary less with binoculars of bounded wisdom? Our interpretation of dreams therefore often gets swayed into unrealistic expectations and beliefs shaped by the narrow interpretation of our life’s experiences.
More often than not, we live our lives in the “future”, oblivious of the bounties that the “present” offers. Influenced by our dreams, we strive for a better tomorrow sacrificing our present. Since the realm to greed and lust extends far beyond that of wisdom, that better tomorrow never arrives. When we are better off, we strive for more betterment and in this vicious cycle of greed we ruin our “today”.
We have very little understanding of who we are but are better off at understanding who we want to be. The one that we want to be is a shadow of the unimaginable molded into shape by our dreams. We do not celebrate the joy of our existence. We often overlook the fact that nature took billions of years to transform us from single cell amoeba into our present day form. We are fortunate to be here but too ignorant to realize it. It is a miserable state of existence.
The real joy of life is in living the present, appreciating our existence and fostering the growth engine of life with realistic interpretation of our dreams. Then only we shall be “ alive” in the absolute sense of the word.
