Aiming Low Is a Crime

That is what former president and renowned scientist Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam said once. The words resounded in my ears so many times that I could not resist but post my few cents on the subject. It is needless to say that I would be hardly able to do justice to words of one of the greatest living legend, but still worth a try. After all, aiming low is a crime.

THEY say ‘don’t rise so high that it pains badly once fallen’. But then, what is the point in rising little, falling little, learning little and giving little in descending order of scheme? YOU and I are little objects in the context of universe and then if YOU and I do not dare, do not dream big, do not bring positive revolution, then who will. Imagine, Thomas Alva Edison thinking on these lines. Don’t YOU or I get the feeling that if he was not, he was committing a crime?

The point lies not in creating name or fame for self. YOU and I would do fair bit of that in entire span of 70-80 odd years – easier said than done though. The point is in answering a question on YOUR or MY deathbed – how had I inherited this beautiful world from my ancestors, what did I make of it and how have I shaped it up – shaped for the generations who are about to take over? If YOU and I dream low, aim low and try low, how would YOU or I answer this question?

Once again, THEY irritate YOU and ME and say, apprehension does not allow dreaming higher and aiming higher. Apprehension – apprehension of what? Only truth is free of fear as Gurudev Tagore conveyed craftily in one of his famous poems. Being true to the cause, motive and means is all it takes. Truth is in aiming high, striving high and not settling even once irrespective of outcomes – flat or enriching. Don’t settle, rather rejoice and relieve YOUR and MY spirits before taking off again.

THEY are around everywhere and they need YOU and ME. YOU and I truly can definitely aim high – high enough to converge THEIR and OUR efforts. Imagine the ‘Luminous Sparks’ that the ‘Ignited Minds’ (YOU, I and THEY) can generate with the ‘Wings of Fire’. His ‘Envisioning an empowered nation’ can never be an incomplete dream then! In context of this post ‘Envisioning an empowered universe’!