Dreams Unlimited

And then I woke up.. Damn!! It was a dream and like all good things it came to an end. I was so close this time to accomplish something I was day-dreaming about for such a long time. I got to wait for another dream now..

For most of us, life has become a race lately. How long can you run? You can’t, even if you want to; there is always an end-point in this race of life, just like any other race. Everyone has to stop at that point and I don’t think anyone wants to get there first. We just blindly run in this race, forgetting good old words from Ursala LeGuin, "It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters, in the end”. So, why are we running at all, who is it we are trying to beat and what it is that’s driving us anyways? I don’t want the answers because I know these are not the questions; this is life. I dream of not running for a change, I just want to relax and dream, but that never happens, not even in a dream..

Today, when I woke up, I decided to live my dream for a change.. I braced myself for being punctual at office today. I got ready immediately and reached office as soon as possible. Everybody was surprised to see me in the office before lunch time and even my boss gave me a smaller lecture on discipline this time. I was already feeling much better. Then I completed what ever little work I had for the day and was surprised to see Tejaswi not offloading his own work on me. Sagar did not call me for a single meeting whole day and Rohit and Pranil didn’t crib even once for all the junk code I wrote. Hmmm, that never happens. Hasta couldn’t come up with a single question and kothari had not yet given me any movie review. Something was definitely fishy but who cared, I was living a long conceived dream.

After having a gala time at the office, I decided to put an end to my long term misery. I mustered lot of courage to finally express my feelings towards this girl, whom I was seeing almost once every month. I was pretty confident that she didn’t have any such feelings, still I thought of trying my luck. I called her up for a dinner date, got dressed and started rehearsing my lines. After mugging up all the material, I ran to pick her up from home. For the first time, I was neither shivering nor stammering in front of her. We were having a pleasant conversation about all the unnecessary things during the dinner and I was saving my speech for the deserts. After the deserts, I took her permission to ask something. To my own amazement, I delivered the whole speech without any trace of diffidence. She was smiling with shade of tears sparkling in her eyes. I thought my dream had come true and my race has finally ended. She just looked into my eyes and said.. “abey 12 baje gaye, office nahin jayega kya”.. And then I woke up..