Dreamers v/s Realists

“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.” ― John Lennon

 It’s really strange that whenever it is time to have dead-still concentration a hallucinated dream runs through me. This dream leaves me reeling, flying and digressing me away from my mission, creating blur patches of visions on top of the-now-not- so-good- visions.  This has been so regular with me that now it has created an identity under my nose, where one continues dreaming and the other rebukes me to come back to real life,   so called ‘Senses.’

This society has been very well carved out in the above Diarchy. The only things is that we have constantly shifted from the self-reliability stance which used to define us as a society and have moved to organizational stances, where people are afraid to get out of their comfort.

It’s not just my soul but others too, who have always reprimanded me for being amongst the category of people callously termed as “a Dreamer”. Well it was a nice adjective used by the cynics instead of tagging me as “a fool.” Thus it left me wondering for real, what good happens being a Realist. Put into test let us see how a Realist fares in competition to a Dreamer. I guess it’s only then I can decide to change my Avatar from being a Dreamer to Realist or else happy to stay put as a Dreamer, as I have always been. 

1)      Realist: Giving up on the best relationship because there is not even close to the remote possibility of our future. People want to stay in the real world. Girls want to stay in the real world. They would never want to take a chance. They can take the sufferings in the name of realism.

(Who wins? Any guesses) Dreamers 1 – 0 Realists

2)      Dreamer: Working in a firm which has made him lazier than he ever was. Lost track of his time. Growing quicker than his age. Why? He is afraid to get out of his comfort zone and actually do something for the dire situation (read Gloomy Job), before the sand clock is just another show-piece on the table.

(Drum Rolls) Dreamers 1 -1 Realists

3)      World is what dreamers have created and realists have always treaded along. But this is not true to an extent. Dreamers have lived where realists have made it true.

(Tough round) Dreamers 2 – 2 Realists

4)      Realist: He wouldn’t buy something he yearns for. He would save for it, ponder over it and then again decide not to buy. As it would create a Crater in his Savings account. End result the desire heightens and dissatisfaction glooms until and unless he has it. But the years of dissatisfaction, all the cravings and the long hours of surfing, just glaring the product and not having one makes it all look so bad. Instead of this he can always walk on a rope without support if he tries to, justifying that it’s easy to stand up and fight when one is in trouble.

Dreamers 3 – 2 Realists

(END OF MATCH)

It was a close match of course Dreamers are a step ahead because they have already been there where the Realists are making way for. One can’t deny the fact that it needs both these fierce rulers to run this society as both are incomplete without each other. This makes me believe that I should start searching for the Realist within me as the Dreamer within me is never going to vanish. Moreover Dreams will just be futile if I cannot make them REAL. 

“There are dreamers and there are realists in this world, you think the dreamers would find the dreamers and the realists would find the realists, but more often than not the opposite is true. See the dreamers need the realists to keep the dreamers from soaring too close to the sun. And the realists? Well without the dreamers, they might not ever get off the ground.” - Cam, Modern Family