Saturday, December 07, 2013

Go for it.

Watched Frozen with 'Aamir yesterday, and of course, Walt Disney does it again; it was a great movie. I'm not gonna spoil things for anyone who's planning to watch it, but I'm gonna talk about one thing from the movie which got to me, made me think of most people out there, myself included.

We all have dreams. Even if you say you don't, you still can't deny that there are things in life which you'd like to do and experience. Even if it's something small like donating or going to USS for the first time; these tiny things are still called dreams.

So we met this character in Frozen called Olaf; a snowman who dreams of summer. He dreams of experiencing summer someday, and even sings about how happy he would be if summer ever came to him.

The first thing 'Aamir, and basically everyone in the cinema, did was laugh. I did too, because I thought it was funny that a snowman would want to be under the sun, even if it was what he wanted to experience. Then it dawned on me; we were laughing at somebody's dream.

Just because he's a snowman, we all think that it's impossible for him to achieve his dream of being in summer. With other people too, we laugh when we think they can't do it.

But stop laughing. Stop bringing others down. There's no need for phrases like "Art has no future" for someone artistic. There's no reason to bring down people whom you think aren't good-looking if they say they want to be an actor or model. Having no money doesn't restrict you from any traveling at all. And when it comes to your dreams, you can't give yourself these excuses either.

Whether it's something you want to be when you are older, or just a small wish on your bucket list, just go for it, no matter how impossible it seems.

As for myself, my current dream is still to be a writer. Honestly I'm not sure what writer I'd want to be exactly, be it author, filmmaker, or journalist. Perhaps all of them. Maybe you'd laugh at me because you think my writing sucks, or that my video-editting is immature, or that someone with social anxiety can't be a journalist. But no matter what, these possibilities will always be my dreams.

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