Different Drums

Different Drums
"You should stop dreaming so much!"
"Krupa!get practical"
"You think life is a technicolor movie"
"You should stop giggling so much..what will people think?"
"you will get hurt...if you r so romantic'
and the admonishing goes on...
I have tried telling..reasoning..arguing...that I like myself the way i am!
People who are afraid that i will get hurt at life's cruel turns...forget that
i probably enjoy life's bounties more than their cautious selves..so its a fair deal!
A few tears in return of a lot more smiles:)
I know these people worry about me...and
i am grateful about their concern...but hey,i am not STUPID...i can take care of myself!
And yes i have unreasonable dreams...but i am unreasonable myself..why
should my dreams be any different;)?

You may think i am greedy..wanting so much out of life...but think about it this way..i have one life...i would like to live it as if nothing is impossible...a bouquet of infinite possibilities.
I don't want to lead a dull life with practical...easy to achieve goals!
I want unreasonable dreams to chase...
I know even i am guilty of the same crime...i have wished many people to change into a
more romantic,idealistic person...but i try not to consciously do it!
It helps to remember that we all march to different drums!
So,to all my well-wishers,here is something i picked up from i don't remember where...

It echoes my feelings...
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If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong.

Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view.

Or if my emotion is less than yours, or more, given the same circumstances,
try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly.

Or yet if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, let me be.

I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me.
That will come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you.

I may be your spouse, your parent, your offspring, your friend, or your colleague.
If you will allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions, then you open yourself,
so that some day these ways of mine might not seem
so wrong, and might finally appear to you as right -- for me.
To put up with me is the first step to understanding me.

Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but that you are no longer
irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness.

And in understanding me you might come to prize my differences from you, and,
far from seeking to change me, preserve and even nurture those differences.