Imagination Put To Use

Since the day I was born, people, whether jokingly to a little kid or being a bit more serious during my high school days had always this question in tow to shower upon me at the end of whatever they had to do with me - "What is your dream" or in a more casual way "What do you want to become when you grow up". This is a question that every student has to face and depending upon what he has to offer people suddenly change their treatment towards him beginning from their instantaneous change of expression implying that they have understood the obscure and underlying meaning of what the student is saying which may range from an icy stare to a slight raise of one of the eyebrows in awe without the student being aware of the dead serious implications of what he aspires to be. Whatever be the case, I never took the pain of elaborating any specific dream but plainly stated that I just want to love what I do. I never came to know or rather cared enough of what this may imply and never found myself dreaming of being at any particular position but yes I did dream of extracting as much pleasure as possible from what I chose to do and most importantly left no stones undisturbed in doing my best. Well, this is what my policy of living my life is. But what I want to mention here has got nothing to do about my real dreams or aspirations but this is just a figment of my "wild imagination" which you must have got a basic idea about in my previous post.

Imagination is such a awesome/ful part of human psyche that it can make you travel to such places in your fantasy world that you can become an author overnight or for that matter, end up concocting an ingenious murder plan to satisfy your wild and dangerous instincts. This is further enhanced when one keeps himself surrounded by books and stories that make you empathize with every possible character from a simple, clumsy teenager to a very threatening ghost like villain from your worst nightmares. And then, when you watch a movie the characteristic feeling of empathizing haunts you like nothing else and you can't help but concoct your own story with an ending that suits your wishes. So, till here it is well and good. Something which can be understood and related to. But, now starts something which is out of the ordinary. Once when I was active in orkut, I saw a community post asking members to post what they would like to pursue as their profession apart from their usual one. I never expected what I read. Some wanted to become astronauts and  place their country's flag along with their names. Others wanted to own their private spaceships and announce discounted space trips for people of all age. And, if some people somehow become talented scientists they would like to transform the world with the introduction of immortality pills or, for that matter, pills that make them read everyone's thoughts (Okay, too much inspiration from The Twilight Saga). It was then that I realized what is my out of the ordinary choice of a profession. After watching some extraordinary movies and also gaining some knowledge about the behind-the-scene activities of the movies and the attitude, skills of the performing actors and then reading this community post several things clicked at once and I came to one conclusion before anything else - if I ever happened to reveal this to anyone it will turn out to be a bad and cheap impression although I will never become serious and this will always remain stacked in that corner of my brain which has got nothing to do with what really I am and wish to do but just a part of a fun activity that involves self mockery. Oh then I believe it is already guessed what I want to mention but if not then I would like to take immense pleasure in announcing that my wild imagination wants me to become an actress. There, I exploded my bomb. 

So, how can anyone who knows me imagine me to be an actress. Oh no, not the usual actress who reeks of glamour quotient everywhere but just the girl-next-door type (Oh come on, I am not this much insane that I will imagine something which has got no roots in reality). An actress who acts in movies that relate to topics or events which sensitize or affect her the most. So that all poignant situations have an happy ending. Most of my day dreams are composed of this and yes as I already mentioned in one of my previous posts there is always an entry and a dramatic role of a hero. Sometimes, my dream asks for the entry of my parents or, for that matter, anyone whom I know in reality but I stubbornly do not let that happen because then I will really fall under the category of a completely insane person. For this reason, at times I am provoked to write a short fiction story but never ended up doing so in spite of repeated promises to myself of one day implementing my wild imagination on a piece of paper. While at school, I never participated in any stage show. Leave that alone, I never even talked to anyone properly and I personally do not think that I have it in me to act out even a planned lie in front of anyone but even then have acted out various scenarios in my head with perfect expressions. 
I never thought that I will ever write about such a fantasy but suddenly getting reminded of my orkut days I felt like writing my heart out for no reason. Somebody has rightly said - Your world seems so bland after watching a beautiful movie and you just want to stay engrossed in that world hoping nothing but happy endings.