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There was this cute little boy who had a very weird dream

one day. And he continued to have the same dream forseveral nights to come. He had several other dreams, butthis one was the weirdest and also the one which he enjoyedthe most. And he dreamt for that dream to come true. As alittle boy he never knew that this dream would change himand his destiny forever his desires, his career and himself.What dream did he have?

He dreamt that he was floating and flying in his room. Hewas floating upto the ceiling and was moving to other roomsas well. It was fun! He was thoroughly enjoying this

experience and wished that it never ended. But as all dreams come to an endthis too ended, as his nanny woke him up for he was getting late for school. Buthe was thinking of the dream all the way to his school and as well during theclass hours.

It was not long enough that he discovered that he was not the only one who hadthis dream, as he listened his English teacher narrate the story of Alice inWonderland at school.

There were several nights when he closed his eyes wishing to dream that samedream! Experiencing floating and flying in dreams and listening & reading it infairly tales was fun, but he longed for something real.

It was not long enough did he find that he was not alonein this pursuit. He learnt at school of the WrightBrothers who wanted to fly and made the firstaeroplane. But he has seen aeroplanes, those that takeoff, fly and land. But his dream was not that. In hisdreams he was floating, flying and was going up, up andup.

And one day at school his science teacher taught himthat it is the gravitational force that keeps all things fixed to the ground and the

absence of which means that all of us would be floating; like that of inside aRocket or in Space. It was very fascinating and REAL! He wanted to know moreabout Rockets and Space.

In a few weeks time his dad told him that he will take him to abook store and that he could pick any book that he wanted (butnot to cost more than 100 rupees)! He was very excited at thethought that his father was taking him to a book store and thatweekend his dad did take him and all through the way he wasonly thinking about books on rockets and space! That store hadonly books in the vernacular and he was interested to read inEnglish. But as he was browsing through the books at the shelf

one book caught his eyes. A book on science by a known author Sujatha (whotoo was brought up in his hometown, Trichy and by his grandparents, like him).He was only in the 6th grade but was familiar with Sujathas writings in Junior

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Vikatan and Ananda Vikatan. This book was on science facts and lots on thespace & universe and he liked it! He immediately grabbed that book and hisfather bought it for him.

As soon as he came home, he started reading it and completed it in a couple of

nights. He learnt lots about rockets, astronauts, planets, galaxies, stars, satellitesand space travel. His fascination started to become his passion. His dreamsstarted to become his desire. And he wanted to make his crazy craving to fly &float as his career!

He was so much fascinated that he even enjoyed the slightest moment of thefloating feeling while going around in a Giant Wheel and he desired for thatmoment to last forever!

He also bought and read more books onAstronomy from Higginbothams and NewCentury Book House and at Book Fairs. As he

grew up Physics and Astrophysics became hisfavourite subjects and he also began to readClassical Mechanics when he was in the 9thgrade! And he was looking for options to learnand experience science and that made him tobecome a member of Indian Science CongressAssociation which only remained asMembership Card! As he read the book Thefirst man on the moon by Scholastic publishers and on Neil Armstrong and EdwinAldrin, he wanted to go to the NASA (National Aeronautics & SpaceAdministration) of the USA. As he read on the first Indian to space, Rakesh

Sharma, he also wanted to go to ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization)!

As he neared his completion of 12th grade he started to look for options topursue higher education in Astronomy/Astrophysics and applied for manyuniversities in the United Kingdom. But this pursuit did not materialize as hisfather refused to support his education in abroad. It so appeared that hischildhood dreams had come to an end. It seemed as if all his hopes and dreamswould never come true. He even started to question his lifes purpose and almostdecided to quit (to read this and his life changing experience read I Quit)

After 12 years of all this had happened, as he was traveling in a train he wasremembering these and was thinking whether his childhood dream would never

come true! Just then he remembered a verse in the Bible -

For the Lord himself will descend from heavenwith a cry of command, with the voice of anarchangel, and with the sound of the trumpet ofGod. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Thenwe who are alive, who are left, will be caughtup together with them in the clouds tomeet the Lord in the air, and so we willalways be with the Lord. 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 (ESV)

And he wished for Jesus to come soon, for Heloves Jesus and loves flying - up, up and up!

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(Penned in the train Sanghamitra Express on 2nd Oct 2011). This post is neithera scientific nor a theological essay, but only a personal memoir.

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