Our childhood was the most majestic and magical part of
our life and there’s no doubt about that. Whenever our teachers asked us what we
wanted to be when we grew up, I am sure all of us had different answers to it.
Later when we saw that everything wasn’t as nice as we had dreamt of it to be,
we revised our dreams, instead of reconsidering our dream job options. In our
hearts most of us wanted to be musicians, artists, poets, singers, astronauts, what
else and whatnots. When we realized that our family did or didn’t support our
dream, it was only then we gave it up. That is when the Dream Gap began to grow.
Since I got into the business management studies and
learnt about the Service Gap as a
management jargon, I’ve been thinking of writing something on the Dream Gap too. To explain in simple
terms, Service Gap is what exists
when there’s a difference between customer’s expectations and company’s service
delivery. With a similar analogy, in simple terms, a Dream Gap is something
that exists when there’s a difference between what you had always dreamt to be,
and what you’ve become now. For most of us, the gap is huge. Slowly, we all
began to realize that economy is going bat shit crazy and everything on this
planet is going to get expensive as fuck. So, the focus shifted more on earning
sack full of currency notes and saving it for our kids who weren’t even born.
The fortunate ones were able to fill the Dream Gap as
they turned their passion into profession and became artists, digital rebels
and dreamcatchers, in a way. Rest of them, buried their dreams under the
carcass of engineering and medical college fees with the hope of earning double
their sacrifice. Well, guess what? No amount of money can replace the serenity of
doing what you’ve always dreamt to do. You may be sitting inside the tallest
skyscraper of the world; or maybe you’d own one. But, the bliss of watching the
sunset at the beach or from a mountain is nonpareil. You may be the greatest
Project Manager the company has ever had, but quoting what our Late President,
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam said, “One should
always love their job and not the company, because you never know when the
company stops loving you.”
Wanderlust is one of the ways to escape from the chaos, or
escape your inner demons and embrace your soul. Chaos is immortal – it finds
life to feed on, and life is everywhere. It is upto us to metamorphose chaos of
the world into psychedelia. Get high once in a while; see what the parallel
universe feels like. Fall in love every day; let the heart smile the hell out
of it. Go overboard and swear whatever words you know, to your boss for being a
dick; it may cost you your job, but will liberate you from regrets and
frustration for life.
These aren’t things that you do on a regular basis, but when
you do, your soul would feel like a virgin doing it for the first time all over
again. The feeling of being a totalitarian to yourself is what matters in the
end. YOU control your emotions because they are yours to share. YOU control
your mind because it is all yours to use according to your will. And it is YOU
and only YOU who’d control your dreams because you are its Creator. It is upto
you to either nourish it and let it grow strong or get it aborted in the womb
of your conscience. So, if you think your children won’t survive the cruelty of
the world and you are securing their future, let’s talk about making this world
a better place for them to live and cherish your legacy of celebrating life
with ecstasy. If you teach them to evaluate the right price of every tangible products
and by-products of the earth, they will never know the value of intangible bounties
of nature and cosmic forces that’s keeping this sphere of life rolling.
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