is it a terrible thing to live life without a dream?
posted by Sharad Ragas at 11:24 AM
Friday, January 08, 2010
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13 Comments:
Why?
'cos realizing those dreams makes us happy.. and sometimes they change too, morph themselves as they face reality.
What exactly is a dream, I wonder sometimes..
But a man who is satisfied does not dream. And is nt satisfaction the state of being (finally) happy?
So, is it a terrible thing to live life being happy? =p
Congrats dude, am I to assume now that you are quite satisfied? :P
You misunderstand me Partha. I merely was questioning the romanticism we live by, which Ravi or Leena, for example seem so absolutely affirmative about. Just a gentle argument this is, as much with myself.. as with you.
No.But only as long as u urslf dont realise tat!U realise or u strt dreaming..tats the strt of the trouble,if u ask me! Its OK not to dream.Sometimes I wonder,the happiness which w/could b possibly enjoyed in innocent ignorance is lost coz f the 'cruel' dreams!
Needless to say, happiness is what I define for myself. Include dreams or not...my choice, my problem!
=)
yea it kinda is cause without a dream life becomes just... blah
The idea of mental conditioning is in most cases very tempting to accept but I doubt its validity here.
I think behind a "yes" somewhere there is an instinctive acceptance that (almost) no person is in that blissful state of total happiness and complete satisfaction.
How many such men has one met in one's life?
Majority fall into 2 broad categories - who want more/better and hence not satisfied and hence dream & those who don't seem to care and not because they are satisfied.
Ergo,your line
"But a man who is satisfied does not dream." is not really a counter argument but merely flows from that underlying assumption.
It is terrible to live without a dream coz that would mean falling into that morbid second category. And no, there is nothing romantic about that kind of indifference.
Oh man! What a terribly arrogant stance that we sometimes take these days - no man can exist in a state of complete and total happiness, we say. "!"
@ADR: "How many such men has one met in one's life?"
Such is exactly the type of questions and opinions that irks me. Let me ask you the same question - how many people, in total.. in all your existence as an intelligent adult have you met? Hundreds? A thousand, probably? Now pray try to guess the population walking this earth. Were all the people you had met the same demographic? Were they from the same nation/society/mindset.. or were they from a varied spectrum of the human race? I have no idea what kind of people you ve met in your life.. but if you had managed to have met every kind possible, then you are right. In the absolute manner, you are.
So are you (right)?
Why does man become so assuming in his perception of knowledge that he starts to believe that every other man that walks this earth, falls under his purview of immediate social comprehension. Then goes on to bifurcate the whole existence of his race into two seemingly distinct categories. (It's really not so funny when not done in jest.)
P.S. My statement read.." a man who is satisfied does not dream.. if satisfaction is the state of being (finally) happy.."
P.P.S. Yes, I've met satisfied men.
Right. I stand corrected.
@SR,
Do the satisfied men you know have no dreams anymore?
@Partha: None that they can recite.
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