The -ve of ROMANTICIZING ones Dreams

What it means is to fall in love with your dreams and day-dream about your dreams.

We grow up Romanising our heroes – Steve jobs, mark Zuckerberg, bill gates, warren buffet etc and one often day dream about being like them, glorified like them, worshipped like them!!

I know some folks from Silicon Valley who would treat their colleagues like sh** because Steve jobs was a known a**hole and we think talking like them, walking like them, eating like them, mistreating fellow friends will make me just like them!

Often when I’m tired and depressed I sit and day dream about being World’s Richest and what I would do with all that money.

• I have already figured out the house I’m going to live in.
• The hairstylist I’m going to hire
• The brands I’m going to wear
• My Accent
• My Garden
• My Interiors
• My Exteriors
• The Oprah interviews
• Forbes magazine cover
• Vacation plans
• Michigan star restaurants I’m going to dine in
• The cars I’m going to own
• And of course, my daily medium of commute- my private jet!!

Day dreaming just gives me a different high!!

Don’t we all do this?? Dream about our heroes, sorry redaction, dream about the privileges our heroes presumably must be enjoying.

Superficial stuff, agreed but we could spend hours & hours whiling away in these thoughts and funnily they feel real and give us a sense of achievement

I’m not trying to degrade the value or the power of imagination. After all, imagination has been the foundation of all inventions & innovation.

Life in recent times has become about learning-unlearning-relearning. And what I have realized in recent times is that our crisis is no longer material, its existential!

This concept of comfort has become a 20^th century reward. Be rich, be comfortable.

Be comfortable in your own skin – doesn’t matter, you are obese, unfit but if eating comforts, you do it.

Be comfortable, don’t cook, order in.

Don’t struggle, just chill. This demonizing struggle has changed the course of millennials.

The value of struggle

But here’s where lies the problem, you haven’t lifted a finger and you have lived an entire lifetime, much like inception!!

The problem with this bubble is that you often get deviated from the real gold,

which is,

• Their Work ethic
• Their discipline
• Their process
• Their time management skills
• Their untiring hard work
• The sleepless nights
• The hustling mornings
• The sacrifice
• The realities of FOMO
• The books they must have read
• The failures they must have embraced
• The repeated judgement they must have proven wrong

• The passion they must have invigorated
• The inspiration that they never let go of

I often come across engineers who criticize MICROSOFT for their less than perfect software, APPLE for being more of a marketing company than of a mobile company.

This picture for me says it all!

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What we forget is that Murals weren’t built for the critics! They were built in the honor of the DOER’s, those who slept less worked more, who spoke less, but worked the most.

Grazia & Salute,
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