“Dream, dream, dream, dreams transforms to thoughts and thoughts results in action”. It was Abdul Kalam who told me (us) this. And the timing when I went through this was so good that my dreams were transformed quite faster. I was on a train travelling to Chennai. It was a day and not to mention a crowded hot day in an Indian train. I was neither falling asleep nor getting a buddy to fly my time. So as an average Indian youth I too was buried into my phone. The birds were flying very well killing all the pigs. All of sudden the peep of my phone took me back to the senses and my battery was running down. Thanks to my last minute packing theory that I forgot my charger at home. So it was a completely boring miserable journey when I read these lines, on the walls of a school like building as the train rushed through one of the Tamilnadu villages. “Dream, dream, dream, dreams transforms to thoughts and thoughts to actions”.

This site and the circumstances forced me to lie on my back and think about it. Truth is that I was trying to dream and transform it to thoughts and then to actions. The first dreams went through were, of course, the R-rated ones. But then it gave way to me. When it focused to me the dream was how successful I can be? How rich can I be? How many cars I can own? The beautiful house I can get and the words and applause from around the world. It all came to a sudden break when the dream was shifting gears to thoughts. The questions and the words were same even in the thoughts. But the words were slightly rearranged. How can I be successful? How can I be rich? How can I own many cars? It was a big transition from dreams to thoughts. It all took just seconds. Even there were no changes in the words. But the stuff entirely turned around. The beautiful dream is now a horrible reality. The thought was streaming through my mind. Different ways to be successful, to be rich and be like a Bill Gates. But as for an ordinary man the first to come was a lottery or a surprise entry into the world of celebrities. It all came to halt when my own reality came in the thoughts.

It is now time for the realistic thoughts. The ‘how’ factor still highlighted, I started to think more realistic. How to earn a job and how to save all my income and it all were looking good. As the train was going I made a beautiful script for my life. Salary is coming in bundles. Weekends spent in style. Occasional vacations. In short, it was better than a dream. Thoughts have already made way for real action.  It was all happening well in my life. The dreams transformed to thoughts and actions creating magic even in my life.

The sudden whistle from the train forced me to realise the fact that I was in my sleep and all those flourishes were still the dream. And it was well said with ‘three’ dreams before the dreams transform to thoughts and still few words before the transition to action. The dreams made thoughts and back to dreams. This is the case for many of us. We dream and even think about the dreams but instead of action we will restart the system with the dream again. This may be the reason why even after hearing a thousand times from every corner to follow and succeed your dreams we fail to do so. This factor really haunted me a lot. I wanted an answer why you and I are still dreaming but not getting it to action. And this thought started haunting me so deep that whenever I was alone and nothing to do the only thing on my brain was this.

And this was the beginning for me. Thoughts started to stream through my head. It was the very first time when I was immersed in the “lonely thoughts”.

And this was the beginning of this blog filled with all those thoughts fled through my tiny head.