Saturday evening, and I haven't updated the diary yet. Dayala sent me a message in the morning, saying that he was on his way to Mumbai, he also said that the kind of travelling that he was doing in the past few weeks needed him to take a break of altleast 48 hours to rid the exhaustion and unclutter his mind. Needed some solitude to think and decide the course of action. I can understand what he meant, anything first needs a lot of preparation, the plan needs to be clear in the mind first and then hit the paper with the same clarity and precision. And now I receive the second message from him saying that he is already here in Mumbai and attending a get together of the bikers. This is certainly being on the move and getting some headway as well.
Since Bharadwaj Dayala talks about solitude, I wish to share what it has meant to me and how I perceive it. In fact I have learnt the meaning of solitude by observing my husband. He is a master mariner sailing on ships, mostly chemical and oil tankers. Certainly a very challenging job. I used to see him being a different person closer to the date of his joining back. He obviously would be missing home, family and his kids. He is an emotional personal very attached to the family He doesn't express himself much. When we were newly married my mother in law told me, "He gets cranky and can behave differently when he is about to join so just see how you can deal with it and help him manage things". I started observing him closely would help him packing, talk to him and keep his mind as relaxed as I could. It would irritate me at times but over the years I understand that he needs some time just for himself when he clears his mind, his thinking and then gears up for his work and also to be away from home for he next few months.
Solitude is spending time with oneself, observing, analyzing, critiquing, thinking ahead, planning, preparing oneself mentally, emotionally and physically. Once this is done, you are ready to take on the course of action, move ahead and then there's no looking back. As Salman Khan says in Dabangg, "Jab main commitment kar leta hoon toh main apni bhi nahi sunta." (When I make a commitment, I don't even listen to myself.) All of us need a bit of solitude every once in a while to take a stock of things. All achievers use it as a technique for their preparation for the major event they are embarking on.
When writers plan their new books, they are away, all to themselves probably that's where the new ideas are born. Some prefer staying away and at different places till the entire book is done. When I worked with Taj, there was one such writer, a foreigner, who would check into the hotel stay for about 2-3 months. He kept to himself, not even asking for the housekeeping services. He would spend all his time in the room, very rarely seen in any public areas except for a swim early in the morning. This was his way of thinking on a new plot and doing a good job with his novels.
The solitude that Dayala is talking about will certainly make Dream Live a better focus for him as we are very close to 1st Of March. His followers and supporters also will get a bite of it.
Tell us your stories too and will share them with others, you never know when someone gets inspired and your story changes a life.
Follow #DreamLive to witness how dreams become reality. Bharadwaj Dayala, the first Indian to go around the world on a motorcycle, will show us how to live our own dreams by realising his dream of riding from Russia to South Africa, Dream Live takes off in just 100 days from 1st March 2014,starting with nothing. He'll then help 12 to 24 passionate bikers to live their dream of riding in a foreign country by getting sponsors for them.
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