A failure wants to head to his success by dwelling in the imagination of past or future. One can never start their lives from his lost past or uncertain future. He must start from the present, which is the “ground zero”. Your flaws can become your advantage, only if you can utilize it.

However, we prefer to cry about our flaws, tangling ourselves in the web of failure. We fail to move ahead for our own mistakes. It could be explained more clearly through the following story.

The Hunter and the Small Bird:

A hunter once caught a small bird. ‘Master,’ said the bird, ‘you have eaten many animals bigger than me without assuaging your appetite. How can the flesh of my tiny body satisfy you? If you let me go, I will give you three counsels: one while I am still in your hand, the second when I am on your roof, and the third from the top of a tree. When you have heard all three, you will consider yourself the most fortunate of men. The first counsel is this: “Do not believe the foolish pronouncements of others.” ’

The bird flew on to the roof, from where it gave the second counsel, "Have no regrets for what is past.” Concealed in my body is a precious pearl weighing five ounces. It was yours by right, and now it is gone.’ Hearing this the man began to bewail his misfortune. ‘Why are you so upset?’ asked the bird. ‘Did I not say, “Have no regrets for what is past”? Are you deaf, or did you not understand what I told you? I also said, “Do not believe the foolish pronouncements of others.” I weigh less than two ounces, so how could I possibly conceal a pearl weighing five?’

Coming to his senses, the hunter asked for the third counsel. ‘Seeing how much you heeded the first two, why should I waste the third?’ replied the bird.

One of the biggest mistake that we, in general, do is submerge in idle and unrealistic day dreaming. Because our nervous system cannot differentiate between reality and imagination, we get a pleasant feeling by escaping reality and living in an imaginary world. It doesn't take any effort and does not require us to take any risks. But it costs us the most precious of resources, time, and it holds us back.

To move forward, shake off day dreaming and have a real dream, a monchobi (visualization). The difference between day dream and monchobi is that we do not really expect our day dreams to come true, it is just a way to escape reality. A monchobi, on the other hand, is a vision that we believe in and that we are willing to work for. As A P J Abul Kalam, noted scientist and former president of India put it so eloquently, 'Dream is not something we see when we are asleep but something that does not let us sleep.' Life would be much more fulfilling when you are striving for a real dream.