Thank you Aamir Khan, your movie was an eye-opener for many and a lesson for all.
As a teenager I had a dream of doing things differently, I never wanted to get into the 9-5 shift, money and lots of it was not something i ever aspired to have, no bosses no subordinates, no aspirations to make it big in the corporate world………I had different dreams………I dreamt of doing social-service, of leading a simple life, of running an orphanage or old-age home, of helping those who had no one and no where to go…………I dreamt different dreams.
But then I lost my way…..an mba degree, job with a multi-national, bosses above and subordinates below me, bank balance, investments, future planning, corporate games, meetings……..I totally lost my way.
Watching Taare Zameen Pe, helped me realize that I had gone wrong, that this life is not what I had planned for, that the dreams I had seen of changing the world had become dreams in their true sense………I have become like others……..I was unable to change the system, because the system has changed me.
I asked myself, can I go back, I still have time on my side, I can still do what I wanted to…….but the answer that came from within was frightening………can I leave all that I have been able to achieve so far, my status in society, my place in the corporate world, my bank bal, the future I can have if I keep going the way I am right now………I don’t know……….but I want to……….I want to make things different……..not for others but ME.