How dreams play a significant role in our mental well-being?

What do our dreams really mean us?

Have your dreams always exceed our imagination and it took you beyond everything? Well, Each of us in this world tend to dream. We all have dreams in our life and we consider it as our destiny, to achieve that, we seem to work hard for it. Most people dream higher and bigger, to achieve those dreams they work hard.

People work day and night for their dreams to comes true. Often people call dreams as their goals and as said earlier, we all have small as well as big dreams to achieve’. Some of us might have a dream of scoring good marks, some might have to travel abroad, some might have a dream to succeed in getting a job, some people’s dreams would be to become rich while others would be too famous.

Some of the dreams would be easy to achieve while some are so difficult sometimes these dreams feel impossible.

• Short-term goals are those dreams which can be achieved through putting in little effort while long-term goals need dedication, passion, patience, and hard work to achieve them.
• Short-term goals mostly like scoring good marks or winning a competition or might losing weight and it is temporary on the other hand , long term goals are like want to travel to abroad and settles there or it can be becoming rich in future or businessman/businesswoman in future, etc. It can be permanent and an individual has to be consistent even after achieving them.

Each person has both goals (short term and long term). Only one thing we have to understand to achieve these goals is ‘Preparations and hard-work is needed’, it doesn’t matter whether it is short term or long term. As A.P.J Abdul Kalam said-

“Dreams are not the things that we see in sleep, Dreams are the things that doesn’t let us sleep”.

Sometimes dreams have an adverse effect on our mental health if it did not get fulfilled. According to studies, it has been found out that most of the students commit suicide for not being able to achieve their dreams or being pressurized by others.

Every person has a dream to become something in their life. Society plays a significant role to decide if a person can fearlessly follow his/her dream or he/she needs to think upon his/her dreams again. As we live in a society where some of the dreams are being accepted by society and some of not. Because in today’s times as well, Society is not ready to break stereotypes and got used to it.

As kids we all had dreams of becoming a doctor, engineer, scientist, actor, piolet and what not!! And as we grow up, our dreams take a shift from traditional careers to creative ones like becoming a writer or musician or dancer.

Our society seems not so supportive about these creative fields and they think that there is no career in these fields and because of this, students are being forced to traditional careers like engineering or medical even if they are not interested in it.

Due to these forceful decisions of our acquaintances, a student eventually start feeling burdened and isn’t allowed to even open up about what he/she actually wants to pursue, nobody feels the need to talk to a child about his/her dreams, about what is it that interests their child/friend/student.

But because everyone wants a secured future that is why most of us, as a student were being forced to take up the traditional courses only, which is why when we as a students or even as an employed individual has not been given a freedom of choice to follow our own dreams or passion we start feeling depressed and this situation can be worsen in some cases that it can lead to self harming behavior as well., and consequently the result of imposed career decisions never end up on a positive note.

Big dreams require big efforts and you as a follower of your dream need to put thorough dedication and hard-work to achieve it, you should never lose hope in between. Passion is everything, if you are passionate enough for your dreams, you’ll never give up on your dreams.

Being a Parent you must be aware of the following facts that-

• Making your child go against their interests sometimes tortures them while being in another field.
• They find themselves disturbed and everything seems monotonous.
• In most of the cases, where children are dissatisfied with their career choices and they end up getting poor marks, they do not feel happy, and it affects their mental well-being adversely.
• A child start giving up, when this continuous to happen for a longer time and they keep on getting low scores even after putting a lot of efforts.
• A child deals with the feeling of self worthlessness and low self esteem when they are unable to meet their parents expectations and not keeping up to their parent’s dreams, and a child finally gives up and most of them even commit suicide.

Most of the cases have been like where the person was good/scholar in studies but till he reaches in graduation, his percentage starts dipping. Why this happens?

The answer lies in his mind whether he is happy being in this, during this process may be, he has lost concentration. We should understand that whatever we want or our heart wants, we should go for that even though it seems difficult nonetheless, we should at least try to achieve it.

Dreams keep our life going and for that, we should be prepared and should hope. As people say “Prepare for the Worst and Hope for the best”. Every opportunity comes with time. We should be able to manage the time and should grab the opportunity instead of doing it later when it is completely gone and then regretting losing it.

Remember “Nothing is impossible”. We should have faith in ourselves that “I can achieve it and I will achieve it“.

Even if we cannot change the perspective of this society then there is nothing to be negative, Show them that you can do it by putting a lot of hard work into fulfilling your dreams.