Afterall its YOUR life, YOUR dreams, YOUR expectations!!

Quite often we see teenagers sacrificing their dreams just because their family did not believe in their dreams, passion, their skill. Lack of family support compels them to pursue something which tends to deviates their basic interest and enthusiasm. 

Imagine how tough it would be for a 18 year old to bear the pressure of walking into the path which has no final destination. An individual aiming to become writer is "compelled" to become a doctor, a child wanting to fly high , becoming a pilot is being pushed into "inheriting his father's business" and another child dreaming to work in film industry is told to wakeup daydreaming.

Why? Reason? Perhaps expectations. Expectations in a complete different sense here. Our parents had presumed our carrier choices before we are grown up to even have a thought of this term. They expected us to aim something different, different from what we actually want from our life.  Failing to stand out to those expectations tends to bind us into the thread of worthlessness.

I do not intend to misinterpret parents' intentions for their children but is it practically right to put up boundaries around their child's dream? To determine certain parameters for their dreams, failing which the child ends up confining into the circle of hopelessness.

You know,the society will criticise you when you'll walk alone in the path which is narrow, dug with stones and pebbles but covering a long distance waits a beautiful life which is made for you only. The society will lure you with the comfort of the road where every other being was leading with suppressed will, where there was destination, obviously, but without purpose, destination that is surrounded with nights that has no mornings. 

It all depends upon the individual to be fascinated by the comforts of life that has no future in the long run or walk into life of obstacles, obligations, thorns that only awaits a life, worth living.

You know why we teenagers end up sacrificing our  dreams which we aspired to live? Because we are afraid to fail. We fear failure.  We do not try to understand that Failure is inevitable.  Its okay to fail sometimes. Its okay to face rejection(s) . Failure doesn't mean end of our life, end of our expectations.  In fact, it is the reflection of the same.  The cherry on the top is we fear it because we are sensitive enough to carry criticism post experiencing the same. What our family and society will think of us, the nightmare of them doubting our abilities, our dreams is enough to drain our vestiges of self confidence.

But why to put onelself into the situation of helplessness? To be living the life,one desired, one must Be stubborn enough to dream high , Be stubborn enough to follow them irrespective the boundaries that cage you within standing out to others' expectations and Be stubborn enough to prove yourself not the world but yourself that YOU MADE IT EVENTUALLY, YOU ARE WHERE YOU WERE MEANT TO BE.

Remember life is all about you. Your journey, your struggles. Your success , your hardships, your competition with yourself and definitely your failures, ensure, you outshine yourself with yoir every step. Let you yourself have a hold of it. Do not allow others to control what you desire out of it.

   

                                  By - Anshika Awasthi