Choosing the launch pad

How many times do we think about our past? How many times we feel that things could have been so much better? How many times we regret our decisions?

To be honest at least once in a fortnight these thoughts do come up! “Had I [not] done that I wouldn't/would have been this/that”- the thought that haunts us. The regrets of life are not easy to handle. They make us weak and at times can turn into depression. Why do we regret? Why we keep pondering over things which we don't have? Why didn't we choose what we actually wanted to do in the first place? 

According to me the answer lies somewhere in peer pressure and conforming to the situation without a rationale behind it. We often take decisions based on the accepted norms of the society rather that following our own desires. So someone who wanted to become a swimmer ends up becoming an engineer and has no explanation as to why he took that decision. The society has a major role to play. We all want to look good in the eyes of society even if that means squandering our dreams! Why is that we all are in a hurry? Why can't we wait more? Why can't we strive to do whatever we want to do? Why can't we choose the correct launch pad that has the ability to catapult in the direction that we want?

If we have been offered only one life then is it not our duty to make most out of it? Trust me a separate launch pad has been specially designed for all of us. All we have to do is to patiently search for it. The positive aspect is that you only have to struggle in finding it. Once it has been found then there is no one who can stop you from reaching the heights you continuously dream about. Once it is under your control then you can achieve your dream by only pushing the button. The irony is that most of us don't even start to look for it. Some of us give up our search when encountered upon with some minor impediments. If your dreams are big, your struggle and sacrifices have to be bigger!

Most of us want to have the launch pad of somebody else, not realizing the differences between us and that person and end up crashing in the ocean. Still many of us who do try look for the correct one end up choosing the wrong one. These ones don't crash but they take you to Mars against your intention of going to Jupiter. In either case you don't fully exercise your potential and don't succeed!

What should be done in such a case? Well I am not an adept in this subject. I am also still looking for my own launch pad. What I know is that there is no one stopping in starting your search all over again even if you've failed quite a few times. No matter how many launch pads you destroy but don't hesitate in trying the new ones till you are placed in the apt orbit of your life. There is no point in doing what the world is doing because simply the world is already doing it, so do something what the world is not doing.

"Either achieve it or die in the process of achieving it but don't give up your dream."