“Dream is not the thing you see in sleep but is that thing that doesn’t let you sleep.”

― A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Dreams are how we started our lives. Dreaming to do things, to be somebody and to be the change that starts a change.

We thought and dreamt of what we ought to be, and today most of us stand along a path so different from where we started.

What we thought we ought to be vs. what we have become – is the profound distance we must now travel.

How we are judged vs. how we dreamt.

How we dreamt vs. how we live.

How we live vs. how we were supposed to live.

Each day increases the distance between the two selves within us. Most of us give up along the course of life.

The day we think we are done, we are done, and the day we think we are just starting and have not given up on ourselves yet… we are effectively starting !!!

So, the pertinent questions that arises is how do we bridge that gap?

And I thought and thought and thought… to finally realize the actual distance I needed to travel was just 6 inches.

Curious? :)… even I would be.

We bridge the gap by travelling across the plush unlimited lands of perceptions, created by the experiences, baggage and journey, that life has gifted or taken us through.

The distance to be covered would be “The From” of where we are right now to “The To” of where we were supposed to be or wanted to be in the first place.

The day we travel that length of realization,is the day we would have reached our destination !!! And that length of realization is as long as the 6 inches of our forehead !

It’s never late to start and do what we want.

As Henry Ford said –

“When you think you are right, you are right. 

When you think you are wrong, you are still right“.

So if we think, we can’t… we are right…

But if we think we still can… we are still right… :)…

How deeper and well defined can these words be!!!

We dreamt right, and its time to live the dream by believing in it and in ourselves.

And then I realized… This 6 inches is definitely the longest journey of life – a path so small yet meant to be trodden on every day, every moment of our life and each time the same path looks different with our perceptions, thoughts and baggages!!!

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