Someone has rightly said. “Don’t wait for the perfect time, just do it. This is your dream, live it”.
For years now, I have talked about “What I want to do someday.” And for year now, it has always sounded something like this:
“I want to be like Mr. Mukesh Nayak, who chased a dream with seeds of hard work, commitment and an unparalleled understanding of creating something new. And the result is a magazine and a portal which the Physiotherapy fraternity had badly needed for years. I too have a dream. I want to run my own library, a library that will serve as the reservoir of knowledge to a generation. I want to make people read more and teach them the importance of reading. …Some day.”
When would this day come? My answers varied as the years passed by, adjusting to fit the timetables that never resulted in actually starting my library. I kept telling myself that the day would arrive soon – I decided the name, the logo, and the stationery too. After, I had worked as a project manager in a company for few years. After, I purchased a car for myself. After, I possessed a home of my own. After, I had decided where I wanted to settle down more permanently. After, after, after… and the day just never arrived.
And, finally the day came and I got a wake-up call though. Suddenly I left my job as a project manager in a multinational corporation, and if I don’t work it would be tough to sustain. There have been some things going on that made me wonder if I would not join another company soon what will happen to my big dream. I started to get worried. What would I turn to next in order to support myself?
The answer was obvious: then, that maybe time to actually start my own library. I was satisfied once I came to this realization. Then the strangest thing happened: I started to hope that I would finally be free to start working on my own dream. How silly is that? Why have I been spending all this time not working towards my dream. When it is so obviously what makes me happy and what I want to be doing? Why should I wait even another minute to begin working on this?
So now, I don’t care if I get another job or not. I am starting or in fact, I have already started to work on my dream. I am not quitting my field, but I am done waiting perfect moment to realize my dream and make my soul happy. So, I am all prepared to start my library on a small scale. The furniture is ready, the shopping is on, and debiting my personal account has been a daily criteria.
I have named it as “Reading Racers – stirring your reading habits.” We are a opening soon at Kalol, a small town in Gandhinagar District, Gujarat. You can visit us on www.readingracers.in.
I am sure, I will strive hard to take it to the epitome of perfection in all the parameters needed to make it a perfect or a dream library for readers. Because I am not here to chase my dreams, I am here to live them.
Enjoy some of the pictures of my library interiors. And if possible, do not forget to visit us once just to encourage my attempts.
“You can dream a little dream, or you can live a little dream. I would rather live it, because dreamers always chase but never get it.”
With bright joy, keep dreaming.
Raj.
