How important is it for you that your dream comes true? How far are you ready to go? How much risk are you ready to take? For how long can you bear everyone doubting your conviction? When is it that you stop chasing some stupid (in others’ eyes) dream? These are questions that for some reason have no legitimate answer. Although for you, the answer holds great importance, but unfortunately (or fortunately) there is no ‘right’ answer to them.
I was just flipping through the channels when I came across this medieval times movie starring Anil Kapoor, Utpal Dutt (the golmaal guy), and others called Saheb (obviously this is the movie that sparked those questions). The movie is about Saheb (Anil Kapoor) who has a dream to become a footballer. He’s not from a well to do family and therefore is constantly ridiculed and criticised for not taking up a job and chasing this stupid dream. He’s tremendously passionate about football and dreams day and night about it. Now, his younger sister is to get married and his father can not afford the wedding. I’m not going to dwell on the unnecessary (not truly unnecessary, it’s a brilliant build up) occurrences. What Saheb does is, he goes and sells his kidney so that his sister can get married and be rid of the feeling of guilt that she is going to be responsible for a huge debt on her father’s head. He does it knowing very well that he will never ever be able to play football professionally with one kidney. Knowing that the one thing he had dreamt of day and night will not come true.
So this brings us back to the queries I had posed earlier. When do you stop chasing your dreams? Should you stop chasing your dreams ever? There are also those of us who believe that come what may, whatever difficulties we face, whatever hardships we have to endure, we should always follow our dreams. ‘If life gives you thorns, you make do with thorns. You do not brood on their nature, colour, length, sharpness. Instead you pluck them and keep walking, on bloody feet if you have to.’ Those who have such beliefs aren’t wrong. There is more than just white and black here.
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