Dream, dream, dream.

"You worked so hard, and now you want to give up your dream?"


"No, I gave up your dream. I am pursuing my own dream."


A dialogue went in between a mother and a daughter heard on the television. A typical family situation where some don't realise that what every parents want is for their child to follow a plan they secretly indulge at the back of their mind. Some blatantly want you to follow the destiny they have already chosen for you. Like a bird, right after you are born, you will eventually be forced to fly.


Do you have a dream? Do you ever want to be someone? Was it even your own fucking dream? Or it has been planted in your head by your parents since the day you were born.


"Siapa dia? Lawyer? Doktor? Ahli Majistret?"


"Apa. Ahli muzik? AHLI MUZIK?


Most of you would have know the infamous phrase. So there is it, if parents could not make the dream for you, they choose it for you in some other way.


My family doctor would be the best example. Born Indian, and like most Indian parentage, they want their child to be a doctor, or a lawyer. Dr. B, like some of you might have read about him previously has no interest of being a doctor at all. But sadly he gone through with it. Now he has a family of his own, and he still look very much not happy with what he is doing now.


In other words, he was definitely not chasing his own dream.


Apu in Simpsons most probably wasn't even thinking of opening a grocery store too. You can sense the tinge of sadness everytimes he say, "Thank you. Please come again."


But I always tell Apu that it is alright. I even managed to get him to stand in front of the door here. Right here at Project Mayhem. Doing what he is best at.


"Thank you. Please come again."


Ah, that familiar voice just haunts you doesn't it.