“Your simple life can be someone’s biggest dream”
I have always been a person
dazzled by science fiction be it the concept of time travel and parallel
universe through quantum physics or the thought of sneaking in to one’s dream and
placing an idea in there. Of late, there is one more thing which caught my
attention and left me curious – Lucid Dreaming or a state of Suspended
Animation. It means to preserve a person’s body and soul at sub-zero
temperatures, a cryonic state for a long long time letting one live a dream.
Well, this is not entirely
science fiction as the science part of it pretty strong. It might be in the
initial stages of research as of now but very soon in the future, you would
have a choice to live a dream as well. So assuming that happens, what would be
your choice? Dream or Reality? If in a dream, how would you like it to be and
for how long?
Before I give my answer, I would
like to discuss two different movies which dealt on this same theme.
Vanilla Sky – A 2001 Tom Cruise movie where the super rich hero
disfigured by an accident and loses his close ones chose to dream of a life
with a perfect face and the love of his life.
Lucia – A 2013 Kannada movie where the super rich film star hero
dreams of a life as a simpleton sans attention and stardom finding happiness in
simple things which makes life perfect.
Though both have the central theme
around the concept of Lucid Dream, they are very different in terms of what
they see as a dream, which also has something to do with the two different
countries and people that we are. But
what I’m really concerned about is what did the two heroes chose in the end. While Tom Cruise chooses to face his reality
with all its imperfections, in Lucia, the hero decides to live the dream as a
normal person with simple desires.
So more than answering the
question of dream or reality, I would choose to find out what would be the
ideal way of life irrespective of being a dream or reality – and I choose a
life of imperfections. May sound ironic that the ideal way of life for me is
actually to be imperfect, for it is knowing the sour which would make one appreciate
the sweet. If everything in life is sweet, it really isn't sweet at all. It is
the imperfections which makes one’s life. Learn to appreciate it. I quote one
of my friends from a conversation we had last night, “Everyone who is born is confused. If you are sorted then life loses its
meaning. If you are content, your existing has no purpose.”
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