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Recently, I watched two series that actually described the true meaning of a dream and demonstrated that there is no age bar to live your dream.
“Dream” is such a beautiful word, and I guess we all have a special connection with this word since childhood. Either we have been asked by someone, “What is your dream?” or we have ourselves mentioned that, “My dream is to become.”
Even though I had a lot of dreams in my childhood, I forgot all of them eventually. Almost 5 years ago, I met a few people who were working effortlessly towards their dreams, and somehow, my dream took birth again.
Of all the dreams I had, one most important was to become a writer. I have been writing for two decades, but never took it seriously.
I will not divert from my subject, though. Recently, I watched two series that actually described the true meaning of a dream and demonstrated that there is no age bar to live your dream.
First, “Unchai,” a Hindi film released in 2022, received immense accolades for its inspirational storyline. The film is a tale of three friends who decided to trek to Mount Everest to fulfil the dream of their fourth friend’s last wish.
Though it was a normal wish for all four, it became a dream for the other three after the demise of the fourth one. I was so pumped up after watching “Unchai” that I immediately started working on my fifth book.
Second, “True Spirit,” an Australian biopic film released on Netflix in 2023, is truly an eye-opener that gave me goosebumps. The character, Jessica Watson, decides to sail around the globe alone (non-stop and unassisted), breaking the record and hence becoming the youngest person to achieve this milestone. She had to sail for almost 200 days alone, facing all the storms.
I have a question, how strong can a dream be? If you need the answer, please watch the film. Imagine a 60 ft wave in front of you, and you only think about your dream. I mean, a dream is much more important than life.
If you go through my bio, you will acknowledge that I have written, “I am a dreamer,” but after watching “True Spirit,” I feel I am not; maybe it’s only wishful thinking.
Let me specify the difference between a dream and wishful thinking.
“Wishful thinking is seeing your future based on what is pleasing to imagine rather than by what your current thoughts, behaviours, and actions are likely to produce. But a DREAM is active. It represents a future goal. Something you can strive for.”
I mentioned just two movies, but there are so many biopics that exhibit dreamy personalities from various fields. Today, there are very few people who talk about dreams, but that’s the most essential thing that is required to be successful in life, and age has no connection with it.
The biggest lesson I learned during COVID-19 was life is uncertain, and there is no particular age to achieve or do something.
So go out and dream…
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Smriti Malhotra is a Delhi girl and an avid dreamer. She works at the Embassy of the Republic of Congo by profession but is a writer by passion. She began writing while at school and read more...
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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