Those moments when you everything you've always dreamed of and longed for is put into perspective and somehow the prospects seem much bleaker now, if at all before. The daunting premonition of failure or simply falling short of specific requirements can send rippling shock waves through your spine, blurring your cognitive process and upsetting the ease that had settled restlessly in your heart.

And that instant when you realized everything you were working for, or at least thought and hoped you were working for, has been transient in nature and might never ever take root in this course of life. Perhaps such dreams were meant to be for the impossible and ordinary lives like these make no room for extraordinary spectacles to be staged.

As true as that may be, there is no conclusive evidence to disprove the fact that your life isn't extraordinary. There's bound to be the few individuals out there (or just down here) waiting to uncover this hidden potential and steal the hearts of the remaining disappointed souls. But many a times, this is pure wishful thinking but it never hurts to dream.

Well, at least you have to accommodate for some flexibility in this impossible dream. Even paradoxes have their own limits of logic and eventually, everything needs to fall in place and be down-to-earth. While we soar high in the sky, we mustn't drift off in an endless motion but make an active effort to building up a layer of clouds to cushion our fall should we lose our grip on the stars.

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

One day, I want to be looked at.