My Quest

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"The Alchemist" says Follow your Dreams. Since I read it, I am trying to follow mine. But its way more difficult for me coz I donno what I am following. I am lost...how do I realize what my dream is? If we want to classify what constitutes as a person's dream, we cud say its that one thing which gives you immense pleasure even when your livelihood depends on it. Can you imagine how much fun it would be when your sole means of survival is your sole purpose of existence...it wud be beautiful I say !



Lets assume everyone is born with a purpose in life which they have to fulfil as we transit thru' this world. If this is true, then this purpose should be known to us when we are kids. Again "The Alchemist" says that usually your dream will be very clear to you when you are a kid and it will seem farther and farther away as you grow up. I guess this happens since we tend to lose focus of our dream. How then do we realize our dream when it seems so out of reach now? I don't have the answers myself. And that is my quest....to constantly find out ways of leading a life where I am working towards the fulfilment of that dream. I am sure this very thought is a positive step in that direction.



But what happens to those people who never reach their dreams and how do we know that we have achieved ours? If "happiness" and "satisfaction" are the 2 measures of success then you can train yourself to be happy and content in life. Isn't that what our elders have always taught us? My confusion here is people train themselves to be happy even though they have not fulfilled their purpose in life. Our dreams will get lost then. This is the reason why I don't believe in destiny. If everything is destined to happen in a certain way then why do we have to worry about not reaching the destined purpose of our lives? The answer to this lies in the thought that destiny is what happens to us when dreams don't. That is the way we try to be happy and content with what we got. But I want to take control of our destinies, change the course of life so that happines is a by-product of our tasks and not merely a derived thought. Our goals should drive our lives and that will give a new meaning to everything around us.



I want to find that meaning in everything I do, find the ultimate purpose of my life. That is my quest.

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