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Such a fascinating word that is. For some, it is to climb a mountain; for others, to buy a house or a car, or just to earn enough money to buy these materialistic things. We often try to buy dreams when we grow old and call it adulting, because the 12-year-old you had a dream of becoming a singer or a cricketer, which faded away with time, and there were ambitions. These academic goals were no longer called dreams, nor was I. Why so? Are we less emotionally involved with these things? Absolutely not! We want that one thing to shine on the CV like nothing else. We want that logo on LinkedIn like nothing else. We want to post that screenshot or the acceptance letter like nothing else. But today, we are 22. Today we have once tasted the bitterness of that fruit which was sweet on day 1, but till you tried to go grab it, it was rotten. Were you late? Or were there more people ahead of you? If so, hypothetically, that fruit was meant to be yours, would you have walked those steps in 2 hours or 20 hours? When you know it's yours, and no one is gonna grab it, you will walk slowly. And eventually your fruit will ripen. Isn’t that the reason for competition? But in India, the issue with fruits is that no matter how fast you go, there will never be enough. The number of students applying to a college is 15x more than the number of seats it has to offer. What will those other people do then? More trees need to be planted, watered and taken care of, but who wants to be a gardener? Who will row the seeds? That remains a question…

Here I am today, after 11 months of my graduation, sitting anxiously for that one day which will now define my upcoming career. Can I call it a dream now? I know it is going to change a lot of things. I know it is going to open doors for me that I never knew existed. I know it will be difficult, but I can manage. I will catch up. I will get through every little thing because this isn’t just an ambition or a goal. Yes, it is a dream. Because dreams are something which lets you think beyond possibility, beyond statistics, beyond your existing horizons. Little did I know about this place, which now I call my dream, a year ago, but today those 3 letters come to my mind at least 30 times a day… Dr Abdul Kalam was right when he said, dreams do not let you sleep because every night I am living some tiny moments of me standing in a hallway which I have only seen in pictures. I will be witnessing that on Tuesday… the number of times I have imagined myself walking in that huge campus requesting it to call me again to be a student there and not just a visitor is uncountable. The amount of willingness towards this one particular thing enhances every single day and makes me more excited and equally more impatient. I ask myself, are you ready for it, Aditi? Are you going to go and make the most of it? During my CAT journey, I asked myself questions like, is this what you really want but I don’t ask that anymore, because I am already in love with it. My mind, body, and soul know that I want this thing, and I will have to achieve it. I will have to make it there not to prove myself or something, but because that is a beautiful place to be… I feel like writing a letter to myself as Mahatria Ra does in his book Unposted Letters… telling myself, reassuring myself and manifesting this to the universe. Putting it out there. One day, I will come back, and this will be my travelogue. I will read these words and leave a comment on my own blog saying, you did it, kiddo. You got in. You got your congratulations email, a letter, a waterbottle with the logo and that black hoodie with a big U on the back.

Thinking insanely is what makes an ambition and a goal different from a dream. Those two things are very professional, but a dream is quite personal. Isn’t it like a piece of your brain and heart together, which you have already teleported to that place and said that wait, I am coming. I am on my way. The way looked like a huge rough land to us earlier, but today we have spread sheets on it with hard work. You do much and still feel less because this is important to you, and that’s why it’s the dream that will be fulfilled. The crow gets its water at the end. You will too!

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