Nostalgia...

With the growing pace of life, the continuous race against time, we start forgetting that life was meant to be lived and not passed.

First, we run behind grades, then growing up, school, college, office, leaving our dreams behind...

Careers become a matter of what you get and not you want...

When we are kids, our dream job is to travel space, but when we grow up we are just fighting to keep the pace...

This is the story of a woman, who has achieved new heights in life. She doesn't have time for leisure but she was forced to go out with her best friend. Sitting there on the beach and watching kid build mud-castles, she remembered her own days of coming on the beach with her mom and dad. When our castle was like our dream palace. A time when little things were enough to make us happy and now, happiness is like a treasure not found even after working 16hrs a day. Looking at the kids, she found herself smiling. Running behind them on the shore felt the best way to unfold instead of having wine on the back porch, alone.

Today she realized that somewhere behind, she had lost the child within her. The child who had dreams so big but was never discouraged whereas targets today were enough headache. She wanted to be a space scientist when she was 10. So she could go on the moon and run behind the stars. To see if the moon was really made of cheese or they said in her favorite cartoon show. When she became 12, she wanted to be an actress, so she could doll up and sing and dance. When she was 14, she wanted to be an artist so she could paint the sky, the birds, the clouds. When she was 18, she wanted to be a chef, so she could make all the dishes and eat whenever she wished. But then what changed. Why was she here today, working in a bank? Though at a good rank, this was never her goal or a part of her dream-list? Why didn't she have the time to cook her own meals or paint the sky? Why couldn't she do all the things she thought, why wasn't she a master of her own universe!

Then she realized, the reality invaded. She had grown up and chosen the career of her parent's choice because they said it would make her successful. And successful she was! But at what cost? Was she happy? Did it fulfill her bucket list? She now realized that somewhere around she forgot what her bucket list was! So she wrote a letter to herself, to the child within her...Never again! Never again will she lose herself in the crowd. She would do what her heart desired because we get this life, to live for ourselves! And live it she will!