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Every human, born with normally functioning body and a sane mind, dreams of one thing day in and out, and that is to excel whatever field he is engaged in. A student keeps studying throughout the year with a dream that at the end of the session he will be able to top the list of toppers, a sportsman leaves no stone unturned to bag gold medal in the final, a soldier does not hesitate to make the supreme sacrifice of his life in order to be conferred on the ‘PARAMVEER CHAKRA’(highest gallantry award in India), a farmer sweats in the fields for the whole season to get the best yield from his fields, a scientist keeps on experimenting tirelessly to give result to the long cherished invention, and a mother does not pay any heed to the ceaseless discomfort and pain she undergoes for nine months to allow her child to be born without any mental and or physical deformity.

       We all crave for excellence to distinguish ourselves and distance from masses not by showing apathy to others but by virtue of an aura common to excellent people. Do we ever give any thought to the factors responsible for the laurels of those who have earned the tags of excellent performers? Well, the answer is simply no for most of us. In fact we don’t even try to understand it. But still we, most of us, crave for a profile which is remarkable and honourable to the society.

        Sachin Tendulkar is the most respectable cricketer of our country at this moment of time. So many youths of our country idealize him and dream of replicating his feats. There is nothing wrong in it and there are cricketers like Sehwag and Rohit who have emerged as the most exciting players of present time by emulating the style of the 'master blaster'. But the thing that is to be noted is that they did not copy him sitting on the sofa in the drawing room in front of the television, rather they followed his footsteps in the cricket ground and practice net tirelessly. There were many others who dreamt of this but without putting in proportionate efforts and were reduced to a laughing stock.

       The afore said views should not be misconstrued or taken as a ban on dreaming high. There is no denying the fact that every phenomenon that appears reality today was once a dream in the mind of a person who was unknown to the world like most of us. But he believed in his dream and decided to let it expose to the world and result was success. Every person is the architect of his own destiny. We are what we think ourselves to be. We have every right to dream high and cherish lofty dreams. Somebody has rightly said that if we dream of becoming sun, we will certainly end up at least a star in the sky. But we can not afford to have baseless and wild dreams because that may lead us to frustration and desperation.

         In fact one has to have  a well defined and clear objective in life in his sane and intelligent mind, and must calculate the proportionate toil, and of course a spirit which doesn't know how to give in but believes in treading the bumpy and difficult terrains of life. I feel really elated when I see the teenagers, with whom I deal directly due to my profession, well aware of their goals putting in unsparing efforts to achieve them. In this modern age where unforeseen advancement in media has provided exposure to children of useful and detrimental things. With the gadgetry available with children, it is possible to gain esoteric knowledge but at the same time there is always running a risk of maligning children’s delicate and impressionable minds as well. Nonetheless I have reason to say that today’s generation to a considerable extent is more insulated against the deviation than their predecessors because of the clarity of their targets.