Dreams and Aims

Yesterday, while going back home ... I bumped into couple of my colleagues (Vidhi and Amit) in Metro. During our conversation, a question popped up that what is the aim of life. Hmm ... got me thinking. Vidhi said that her aim of life is not much ... she has a decent job ... earning decent salary ... and down the line she would get married and settle down. Don’t get me wrong ... I am not being a sexist ... but this is usually the typical answer of most Indian girls ... or at least most of the girls that I have talked to. Either ways, this seems kinda ... ummm ... what do you say ... you know what I mean ... not very enthralling (to say the least). I said to her that this cannot be the aim of life ... it is a routine of life ... but cannot be aim of life. She said that what else is there ... you would also get married ... have kids ... and that is basically IT. I said NOOOO ... not it. But then when I was brainstorming ... I realized that I too do not have any/many aim(s) of life. I have many dreams but don’t think I can call them aims. Or can I ... lemme think ... hmmm

Growing up, I had a dream of making it big (I mean be stinking rich ... so stinking that Armani produces a scent with my name on it). When I was young(er), I know what I have to become but did not had a clue about the means. As I got wiser, I was fascinated with the idea of having my own chain of pubs. I would call that an aim of life ... but I haven’t made any effort towards achieving it ... so it’s still a pipedream. So what next ...

I’ve been to NYC and I loved that city. If there is any place on earth that I really (reallllyyy!!!) wanna live, it has to be NY. Although it doesn’t seem like much ... but it is an immediate aim of mine. And I am working towards it ... its just that I had the worse luck in the world ... it might take a while before I visit my dream city. So yeah ... a short term aim of life is getting back there.

Kewl ... so I have the ball rolling ... what else ... what else ...

Another aim of my life is to bring joy in people’s lives ... specially my family and near and dear ones. More specifically ... when I be rolling in dough (sooner the better ... ahahahaha) ... I would like to adopt my ancestral village and transform it for betterment. It’s a small village with no real amenities. I remember as a kid I use to hate visiting that place because there were no proper roads ... no telephones ... no electricity (I don’t count 2 hours of electricity as electricity) ... no education ... and above all no TV (c'mon a kid needs to see his cartoon shows). But my father loved that place ... I always wondered why. He use to go to the chaupal (an area where prominent villagers gather) ... talk to elders ... play cards ... have cuppas ... conversations after conversations ... fun. Now that I have grown older (a little) I can see why. Like every village, the comradery among fellow villagers is very heart warming ... everyone knows each other ... basically an extended family. Its hard to find the love and affection inside the city walls. So I would like to bring a change in their lives ...

There are plenty of other small and big things which I have in my mind ... I know a lifetime may be too short to achieve all of them. But I would try ...