Prove them Wrong

 There are lucky bunch of people, who can say that, my dream came true and thanks to my family  and the loved ones, who were with me through all this.

To me that is the blessing to have. Those who believe you and support you to achieve your goal.

Its a pure blessing in true sense.

But not all the people are lucky and believed by the family and friends when they wanted to pursue their dreams.

Today, everyone knows Dolly parton is very famous country singer of America. During her school days, when she stood in her classroom and said she wanted to e a star one day, everybody in her class laughed and that laughter made her more determined to be a star, one day; more than ever. She just wanted to be star and prove the laughing crowd wrong.

I have a friend, who is a housewife and not college educated. The doubt of her other college going counterparts that she won't be able to send her two children to school and college is what fires her up. That is the reason she works so hard to earn money, so that she can  send her children to college. Today her son works in advertising agency as a graphic designer and her daughter has completed her ten plus two recently.  My friend is still not done yet, she is planning to send both of them to America or any country that will take them in, within five -six years. The odd against her, is the family of four had been living in one room apartment, for more than a decade.

She has so much fire burning in her belly to prove her close friends circle; who doubted her she can't make it. She wants to show them, she can do it. She just wants to prove those doubters and naysayers wrong, completely wrong. She is talking all kinds of back bending and eyes soaring works that brings money to her. She has been working so hard to see her dream come true.

Last year I was watching iconic bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan, also fondly known as big B who was  invited in a talk show. The host asked him, “was there time, when media really was unfair to you ?”. “ Oh yes” he replied

“When ?”

When my movie Zanjeer was not doing that good in terms of box office and one journalist got this lines on the cover of a magazine “ his sun is setting” and “he is finished.” I kept that magazine on my table, hoping one day, I use this to disapprove the journalist. When he became a producer, he came to my house to do a project with me and he saw that magazine lying on my table. Not surprisingly he picked it up and said, “ you still have this ?” I told him, “this is my inspiration to disapprove you one day.”

Big B did some movie with the same journalist, when he was rising from the dust again in his life after a stint of his failure. The journalist name is Pritish Nandy.

There is one thing in common, in all of the above mentioned incidents. Sometimes, we do get fired up in life not because we're believed by the people in our life, but we do want to do things to prove the doubters and so called experts in their opinion wrong. In fact, by doing so they are doing us a favour, because without that doubt; we may not have found out, our true potential hidden in us. To tap that our inner strength, unless and until someone really force us to use that potential with their negative comments.

So you know what to do next time when you are doubted next time by so called expert in their opinion, just prove them wrong and make it your life time mission.