We all might have gone through this phase lately where we spend an enormous amount of time sitting and dreaming of a fancy future and then suddenly felt depressed thinking of the worldly things that we know exist but we can’t have them owing to financial, physical or mental restraints. Consequently, we simply fail to focus on our present and get lost in dreamland thinking about thousands of random things instead of taking time to experience the reality of today.
It is futile to just keep dreaming throughout your life and fail to appreciate your present. Adding to this, I think that had I been in some other reality maybe I would have dreamt of a life that I have now. So one must first try to understand that our brain is our biggest enemy and our body is a patient saint. Our body never complains until its patience breaks down and so one must at all cost devote time to one’s bodily well-being rather than focusing all energy on brainstorming. That’s exactly what the brain wants, too much attention. One should learn to control the reins of mind to understand how we are manipulated by ourselves into remaining sad wanting to be someone else and somewhere else.
We must learn to be patient to be content by acknowledging the fact that since we come across thousands of things via the internet our brain reacts to all that data and we end up indulging in wishful thinking. This might be fun if it fades up quickly and we get back in our present. But for a few of us, it may unleash a chain of thoughts where we wish to escape reality and not being able to do so makes us miserable.
This dreaming is the same as dreaming when we sleep, implying that we aren’t actually living consciously since our mind is astray. It’s of utmost importance that we learn to live before we die dreaming, failing to know what it is being alive or what good things were there in our lives which we failed to enjoy because we were busy fantasizing. As my father says it isn’t necessary to have a particular thing or person to be happy, you can learn to love the people you have around you, the animals, then trees and sunrises and the moon-lit nights, the stars. What is the difference between loving a person and loving sunrises? Nothing at all since it’s you who have to figure out what you are and don’t let any of the external things or someone else’s thoughts influence you, the real and alive you. Quest of life is to figure out whether you’re really living or are in autopilot mode as only when you’re actually aware and conscious of life you can be at peace and then even your brain gradually learns to be content.
Running away from reality has never turned out to be of any use. It makes us unproductive and then later we regret the time we wasted on daydreaming when we could have utilized it to do something to get closer to our dreams. Dreaming isn't harmful till we know where to stop but just dreaming and doing nothing is extremely toxic. It's in fact a double-edged sword; neither you contribute to making your dreams become reality and nor you realize the opportunities you missed today since you were busy dreaming of the future. We should be able to direct our mind into doing things that need to be done and not succumb to the mind that constantly seeks our attention. Sometimes we need to separate ourselves from our mind
