The Dream.

It is so great when you're seeing a dream, isn't it? The hard part comes after; right after waking up, when the realization finally hits that it was just a dream. But isn't it brave enough to dream? Knowing that it won't ever be fulfilled; that's heartbreaking but still not being afraid to dream on.

I too have a dream. I want to get published one day. I want people to know me as a writer and not some random girl they met somewhere. I want to be famous. Not crazy famous though. I want a bunch of people to know about and appreciate my work.

I'm a great fan of indie music. It has been almost a year that I haven't listened to a good Bollywood song. Somehow, I always pick up a playlist having Prateek Kuhad, Taba Chake, When Chai Met Toast, Anuv Jain, Ankur Tewari, and others like them; indie artists, who're famous but among their little crowd. They're happy making music for the people who listen to them.

If I ever become famous, I'd like to be like that. I don't want to make India read or anything like Chetan 'whatever' Bhagat wanted to. I want readers to pick up my book; people who've read beautiful works like Dickens and Austen. I want them to read my work and say, "Well, she's no Plath but she isn't bad either."

That's the dream. I keep playing scenarios in my head. Over and over. I don't know if I'll ever be there but that is the magic of dreams, isn't it? The uncertainty of it all! I don't know where I'll be in a few years. For all, I could end up working a 9-5 job that I hate. Anything can happen. But I have a belief that the world doesn't give up on art. And it is our art that makes us; artists.

As long as I don't give up on the dream, no matter how silly it seems to other people; as long as I keep writing and keeping my art alive in me, I know that I'm an artist and that is one of the greatest realizations I've ever had. I'm planning on keeping that realization safely hidden within me.

Maybe eventually I'll get there. And I hope to see one or two of my readers here come up to me and say that they knew me from the time I had posted about my dream. Yeah, I like that idea.

Note to readers: Do not forget to dream a bit. I think it helps with dealing with the real troubles of life. Keep your dreams alive in you. Who knows, maybe it'll just come true one day. Just believe that it can happen. Not going all Paulo Coelho on you, but the universe needs dreamers so that it can help them reach for it in all ways possible. Do the universe a favour and dream on.

:)