The Wonder That Could Be

By Divaani

To be able to dream is defined through the concept of imagination. Something that is almost too seamless to be able to exist. Something so disconnected from real life. It creates this ideology in our minds that our goals can never be equated to our dreams. Quite frankly, we’ve never dreamed of it because it was always considered something that we could never dream of. Something that was impossible.

We’re taught from a young age to only ever envision the attainable. We’re primed to study long hours at school by teachers and encouraged later on to take on the extracurriculars by parents; only to be sitting in an office through our adulthood and pushing ourselves to work harder. Our lives have gradually started to become the accepted norm of today’s society through the same expectations being thrust upon us all. They corner us into materialising such mental representations of our futures to an extent that we do not have the willpower to think of what could be.

The wonder that could be —who you want to be.

I think about this a lot. I know I would have had various answers for the different time periods of my life but for now, I want to become someone that I had idolised when I was younger. I want to be someone who can speak up intuitively. I want to be someone who can grow to love herself. I want to be someone who doesn’t feel trapped in a turmoil of expectations. I just want to be free.

But why do we have this philosophy that we just can’t do it? This recurring thought that I could never be them.

We’ve had so many years of education and yet no one taught us how to love ourselves. Everything we’ve looked at, everything we’ve marvelled at was always something we thought that we could never have or be. The reality is that we’ve all just started to become doubters. And the doubters are just dreamers with broken hearts.

It all roots from how we think. For instance, we can all agree that only nothing is impossible. So if nothing is impossible, is it possible for something to be impossible? It’s the funny truth. Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.

Anything can be beautiful. What’s beautiful is only beautiful if you want it to be. In other words, if you decide that today no matter what is going to be a good day, it is going to be a good day. Similarly, if you resolve that at any cost, you are going to accomplish your dream, you will one day accomplish your dream. The sky is not the limit; your mind is.

You can’t just stop dreaming because the night never seems to end. It all comes down to mindset.