Believe

Are you the sort of person who remembers their dream?

Well, I generally don’t but on rare occasions I do.

I dreamt last night that I was caught in a building that was collapsing due to some sort of an earthquake and I was, like a Ninja, deploying my moves to survive it. And I did. The building did tumble to the ground and somehow, with my Ninja moves, I made it out unhurt.

What this got me thinking is – What could the dream signify? Was there a hidden message there?

These questions got me to Google! And I found a bunch of views about how it might mean – ending something and starting or rebuilding something. Well true or not, I really think there is some deeper value in the fact that – something falling doesn’t necessarily mean the end of it. It means more.

Somethings must end to make way for new things.

As a kid, haven’t you ever tried drawing something and because you were unhappy with it, scrapped it and redrew from scratch?

Then why do we, as we grow up, forget that undoing is just part of the process. Why do we fear and dread the fall or end of something? And in the process, we get so hung up preventing the fall that we almost stop focusing on the 'doing' part.

One might have seen quotes and messages doing rounds such as Don’t be afraid of failures; Focus on psychological safety; Learn unlearn relearn, & so on. They all teach one thing for sure –

To believe.        

Because when you believe, you act and when you act, you know. You will either know that it works or know that if this didn’t work then something else must. So, you believe again, act again … (you know where this is going… ??)

So, to sum it, I would like to remind all those braving everyday lives to keep believing without fear and to keep taking chances without doubts, as…

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

~Alfred Lord Tennyson