“Flow like a river towards the dream “is the title today.
A River has to do with water and water is a great teacher in life.
Not everybody is aware of this, but if we think about and pay attention
observe and be aware of it, we can learn a lot. Water is life without water no life.
Water can be hard as ice, powerful, smooth flowing around obstacles,
jumping over rocks or stagnant, but even if stagnant it only seems like this it will steam warmed from the sun and build clouds.
One steady falling drop of water can make a hole in a rock.
Pay attention and learn from the water.
Read about Persistence – Water spring and Rock
But enough about water, it was talking about water that my young friend Debarpan created this title.
When we talked first he was a very bitter young man, no wonder, he had a tough time in his young
life and lost his parents one after the other and was left alone. Talking with him I felt his negative
perception and bitterness, it took a while, and I remembered the help of the inner child and all
changed for the better when he connected. He is going confidently in direction of his dream, and I wish
that it happens as Henry David Thoreau teaches :
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment:
That if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
Read his story below.
Here comes Debarpan Mukherjee
“Deb, you should study hard to get good marks in the exam”.
“And Deb you should work hard to get this good job”.
“Deb, are you crazy to leave this awesome job?’
I often got such comments from my friends and family. Sometimes I even started thinking, am I really crazy or something to follow my dream of sacrificing so many things or not listening to my well-wishers?
Actually NO!!!!! When you start thinking out of the box and doing something different instead of following others blindly the world starts calling you crazy. Every dreamer needs to be crazy, every entrepreneur needs to be crazy.
A Dreamer
So hi everyone, I am Debarpan, a dreamer, an online entrepreneur, and, yup a crazy guy 🙂
I belong to Kolkata, India, from a lower-middle standard family. I am an occasional poet, a nature lover, a fitness freak, and a wrestling fan (actually a big WWE fan :P)
From childhood, my parents wanted me to be a good student, get a good job, and spend the life of a common Indian man.
As per their wish, I started my graduation in engineering; when I was at the end of my first-year of study I bought a laptop from my savings and entered into the amazing world of the internet.
Then slowly into programming, blogging, and digital marketing and became an online earner as a part-time job while studying. My first and most popular blog is TechTrickHome. So the dream of entrepreneurship seed kept growing up inside me while pursuing my engineering due to which my education got quite harmed, and got scolded badly several times, even by my parents.
So finally, I did my graduation in electronics engineering completed and got a regular job in a mobile manufacturing company. Where I find many unhappy youth dreamers there just quitting their dream to just do regular routine work only for survival.
Flow like a river,
Duty of a dreamer.
Keep flowing; don’t stop,
Just never give up.
Be steady persistent,
Always give 100 percent.
Keep the fate solve the clue,
Dreams will come true.
-Debarpan Mukherjee
I decided not to let my dream go, and I quit my job to continue my dream of becoming an online entrepreneur. In the meantime, I lost my parents and fall into a very bad financial condition. Still, I didn’t give up on my dream and depending on my online earnings, I survived.
So as per my experience, every dreamer should try to follow these rules:
1. Love yourself the most.
2. If something bad happens, take it as an experience, and don’t regret it. Always remembers everything happens for a reason.
3. Ready to bend yourself as per the situation.
4. Always be confident enough to take your decision
5. Exercise regularly as a healthy body leads healthy mentality.
6. Be practical and less emotional
7. Spend time with yourself and your dream.
8. NEVER GIVE UP
So here I am now, a full-time online entrepreneur who loves both professional and personal life and looking forward to continuing my dream in my near future as well. Currently, I started a blog to make my name as a brand in the digital marketing world.
If you don’t build your dream, someone will hire you to help build theirs-Tony A. Gaskins Jr.
That is a perfect saying indeed. So if you’re a dreamer, don’t give up until you achieve your dream, or someone else will surely hire you to help build theirs. 🙂
All the best, keep the inner child active, and be like a river.
Visit his Blog TechTrickHome
Please leave a comment below, and tell us if his story inspired you 🙂
Hii Erika, its a great inspiring post of debarpan. Thanks for sharing
Hi Rajat,
I am happy you liked Debarpans story,
be inspired and keep your blog going
to share your experience and inspire
others.
Thank you
Erika
Hi Deb
What a post and I do commend you for nothing giving up. You are an inspiratiom as you making a difference. Thanks for sharing your story. Take Care.
Hi Erika thank you for such an awesome post and sharing the story of Deb. Have a wonderful weekend. Take Care
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You are welcome Ikechi
I am glad you liked the story and learn to know
more about our friend Debarpan .
Thank you for your comment
Erika
Hi
Very inspiring article I liked it very much. The line “Flow like a river towards your dream” is superb.
Thank you for sharing.
Keep up the same.
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Ho Basharath ,
nice to see you here again
I am glad the post inspired you
You too, keep flowing toward your dream.
Thank you for your comment
Erika
Hi Erika and Debarpan,
It is wonderful to know that you have continued to reach for your dream, even though life has put some roadblocks in front of you. Thank you for sharing your story and wishing you great happiness and success in your life.
Hi Monna,
thank you for your comment and giving
your good intention for Debarpan ,I am
sure he will need it for his endeavor.
Thank you
Erika
Hi Deb, very powerful messages you have there. I’m so glad you found another path and did not get dragged down in the hum drum existence of just working in something that is a drudge. Too many people stay in posts they don’t enjoy because they won’t take the path out.
Enjoy the journey!
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Hi Mandy ,
thank you for your nice words for Debarpan.
The comments show our support for his journey.
Thank you
Erika
Ah Debarpan!
How WONDERFUL to know more about you! You have been leaving comments on my blog not know who you were really. But reading this about you warms my heart. Keep going! There are people like myself and Erika and others I’m sure who are cheering you on. So nice to read more about you. Thank you Erika!
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Hi Lesly,
now we know more about Debarpan and
we will cheer and support him ,good intention
and support is always helping.
Thank you
Erika
Hi Debarpan & Erika,
I love the idea of flowing like a river. It’s a wonderful metaphor for persistence. There’s no success, no failure, just a constant flowing, effortless and never ending. Thanks for the wonderful thoughts on how to stop trying to overcome obstacles and just effortlessly flow around them, on your way to achieving your dreams.
-Donna
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Hi Donna ,
I love this Idea too about flowing.
It was Debarpans Idea and it showed me
that he is in a better state of mind
than before. He learned to flow .
May he always be able to keep in flow.
As you say, there is just a constant never ending
flow. Good to keep in mind .
Thank you for your nice words
Erika
Really enjoyed learning about Debarpan’s life. He’s a very interesting person with a lot of insight 😀
Hi Jason Panuelos,
I am glad you enjoyed Debarpans story.
He got insights you are right.
Good to be in flow 🙂
Thank you
Erika
If you can dream it, you can achieve it – Walt Disney.
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Hi, Ordinary Girl 🙂
You are right ,Walt Disney showed us that it works.
Thank you for your visit and comment
Erika
Hi Erika Ma’am,
a great write-up indeed!
Read it two times,
Thanks for allowing the guest to share his words.
~ Ahmad
Hi Ahmand ,
I am glad you liked Debarpans story
and the insights about water.
I hope you too like water ? it is a great teacher.
Thank you for your comment
Erika
The first impression I got from this post is the quote ”Flow like a river towards your dream” is just perfect. It is an inspirational statement. Thanks for sharing. I will be glad if you guest post on fitness and health wellbeing on my blog http://www.sabtrends.com
Hi Saminu,
The quote Flow like a river towards your dream and
is a creation of Debarpan ,it seems to be an expression
of his soul at this moment. This is why it gets attention.
It tells about his feeling right now,which ,as you can read,
was not always this way. I am happy for him and glad you liked
the post .
Right now I do not have the time to write a guest post ,
maybe later in the year I have more time.
Thank you for your visit
Erika
I like the simile of your story and yes, flow like the running water but anticipates negative aspects of your dream. Reaching a dream must consists of knowledge, determination, perseverance, patience and with the help of the Creator.
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Hi Fernando,
where do you see negativity here?
Out life is not always without obstacles
and the good is if we know to handle difficult
situations ,like the water flowing around or jump over it.
This is not negative anticipation it is a reality and
if we know the law of the creator, we are able to do this.
Determination,perseverance, and patience are too, qualities
we need to reach a goal .But Water is life.
Thank you for your comment
Erika
It’s such an inspiring story. I like that “inner child” thing which I also learned in church. Yes, life is like water. One time someone told me that we should go with the flow of the stream because going against it will take out all our strength and energy. That’s the same in life. Debarpan’s story is something that reminds us to go with the flow of our dreams.
Hi Claire,
I am glad the story of Debarpan inspires you.
The inner child is an important part of our inner self,
if we can find and recognize it we have a part of us,
which can make us happy . Happiness comes from inside
and is our natural state. Jesus said:”I tell you the truth
unless you turn and become like little children,
you will never know the Kingdom of Heaven.
And you are right ,we better go with the flow of life
to get to our dreams.
Thank you for your visit and comment
Erika
Hi,
Indeed we can learn a lot from water and most importantly flowing water. Like flowing water, we should also be always in flow, I mean working. Creating something exciting, building something bigger as these steps will empower to us to focus on our dreams more and we will be closer to our dream. As a flowing river knows how to make way, a dreamer knows how to make his dreams fulfilled. But all this happens only and only when he/she is really willing to put his all efforts into fulfillment of his dreams and don’t get upset with people calling him crazy.
Hi Bharat,
you did write it right a very nice comment .
And if somebody calls you crazy ,take it as
a compliment ,because crazy is what a dreamer
has to be ,away from the crowd, creating a new way.
Thank you
Erika
It’s nice to see some fresh insights about Debs. I guess, life is like a river and no matter how tough it gets, we should just flow continuously.
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Hi Franc,
Nice to see you here.
You are right ,we can take life like a river
and learn the laws of the nature to get to
our destiny.
I am glad you liked Debarpans story
Thank you
Erika
Hi Debarpan & Erika,
What a journey to achieve your dream. Love to use water as the comparison in persistence. The flow of water can pass over or pass around the obstacles which can’t stop where the water wants to go. Your story of achieving your goal among the situation is very inspirational.
Thanks!
Hi Stella,
I am glad you like Debarpans story and I like
that he did choose this title, which shows he
is in a good state and can flow with the stream
of life.
Thank you for your visit
Erika
Hi Erika,
It’s really a good post. Even Debarpan has done a great job. I would simply say very inspirational post.
Thanks for sharing.
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Hi Robin ,
Debarpan did a good job ,especially I like he
did find this keyword ,title .I am glad it did
inspire you as yours did inspire others as well.
Thank you
Erika
getting bitter is part of life but we shouldn’t be staying in it forever. Life is full of trials and uncertainties and when it comes to facing it, we should be firm and be positive at all times so that whenever we stumble, we don’t get hurt that much then.
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Hi Zwitsy ,
you are right ,bitterness is not a good
state and we better get rid of it soon.
If we learn from the water we have an
amazing natural teacher on how to overcome
obstacles without hurt.
Thank you for your comment
Erika
Deb, your story is so heartening. I wish you all success in your endeavours. Best wishes on meeting your gal too!
Hi Bhusha,
nice to see you here.
I am glad you like Debarpan’s story
and we all wish him success for his
new way of life and he sure will
enjoy meeting his girl in real.
Thank you for your visit
Erika
Congratulations for being featured by another blogger. You must be a big blogging star over there in your country. I only knew you as a tech guy, I never knew you also liked to write poetry.
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Hi Fred,
Debarpan is a friend of mine and we are in a blogging group
as well ,we are all stars 🙂 Good that you learned more now
about Debarpan . Is his poem not nice ? He also did choose
the title of the post .
Thank you for visiting
Erika
I was always a quitter. But things always seem to go my way. Maybe if I stop being a quitter, things will get more better than it could ever be.
Hi Lana,
I am sure you have the capacity to do great things .
Start to flow and set a dream goal and you will win.
All the best
Thanks for your visit
Erika
Yes, we should flow like the river and even how turbulent the river current goes we should not stop reaching for our dreams.
Hi Karen,
yes ,if we learn to flow with the current of life like the
river and are aware ,nothing can stop us.
To your dream
Thanks for your visit
Erika
So true! I will keep reminding myself of that. Stay focus and work smart towards our dream.
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Hi Sunshine Kelly ,
nice to see you here.
Keep the story of the water in mind. learn from the water
and keep in flow toward your dream.
Thank you
Erika
Motivating Debarpan! I like the summary of points that dreamers should follow…Actutally just follow your heart!
Hi Shub,
you are, right follow your heart and the points
Debarpan shared ,they come from a experienced heart.
Thanks for your visit
Erika
There will always be tough and trying times and it’s how we react to them that would help us get out of the situation or stay in it. I really think it’s great that he never gave up and found love in the process as well.
Hi Elizabeth,
You are right ,there are always trying times ,
good to take the lessons of the great teacher
the water. If we remember to be like it,
life will be easier.
Thank you
Erika
Hi Erika mam & Debarpan, Great message in this article. There are so many up and down in every business not only in marketing. One should never give up and try until success. Thanks for sharing
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Hi Sazia,
yes there are always up and downs .
If we learn from the river water we learn
how to overcome difficult times
Thank you for your comment
Erika
Wow, that is a great way to see it. I never thought about how strong water is in that sense. But I agree, we must live like life and flow like a river.
Hi Roxi,
I am glad you see what we can learn from the water.
Good to remember sometimes if there is a roadblock
in life ,flow around it 🙂
Thank you for visiting
Erika
Hi Erika,
Very inspiring story! I can’t imagine having 1 parent but then both around the same time is devastating. Debarpan truly has courage to move on with his life and I’m glad to hear things are working out for him.
Thanks for sharing,
Lillian
Hi Lillian ,
you are right losing both parents at a young age is devastating.
No wonder it made him bitter. I aam glad too ,that he has to courage
and will continue the journey to his dream.
May he be blessed .
Thank you for your comment
Erika
i am having my goal but sometimes i lose hope that i may not achieve this
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Hi Dhanunjai,
It is usual that people lose hope sometimes,
good to have somebody who believes in you.
surround yourself with people who can lift you up.
Do not think negative ,there is always a way.
Thank you for your comment.
Erika
What a wonderful message Erika! I have been on similar journeys, heard and felt the sting of well-meaning friends and family trying to talk ‘sense’ into me. But like Debarpan, I persisted and earned my dream career. I think it’s important to add, that just because you persist and show the world that you were right all along, that doesn’t mean those naysayers will suddenly agree with you. I found that even among people I thought I was close to jealousy was the common response instead of wishing me congratulations. That hurts, but when you undertake these journeys you also meet new like-minded friends who will be there and cheer for you. Thanks for the inspiration!
Hi Maquita,
nice to see you here.
You are right some of the naysayers may not agree,
but let say :What Other People Think Of Me Is None Of My Business – Dr. Wayne Dyer
It is true it can hurt ,but as you say you will find like minded people and your
world can change 🙂
Thank you for writing about your experience.
Erika
very inspirational and all true. love yourself the most because you cannot love someone and give love if you dont know to love yourself
Hi Lee,
this is true if we do not love and accept ourselves,
we can not truly give love.
Thank you for your visit and comment
Erika
Hi Erika and Debarpan,
I agree water is one of the most powerful sources that are given to us by mother Nature.
Unstoppable and full of life. Great message, thank you for sharing!
Hi Emi,
I am glad you liked the post and agree about the
amazing power of water and what we can learn from it.
Debarpan seems on his way right now I hope he will be happy.
Thank you for your comment.
Erika
Hi Debarpan/Erika
Very inspirational! The journey may have been rough but through your perseverance and persistence you beat the odds and is now realizing your dream. I love the analogy of the river flowing and comparing it to the dream. A dreamer never gives up much like how a river never stops flowing. Water is the essence of life. Without water there is no life. Thanks for sharing your story with us.
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Hi Yvonne ,
you are right ,Debarpan made a good choice with this
title and true ,without water no life . I love to look
at water .
Thank you for your beautiful comment
Erika
I love these rules of the dreamer . The first one of “love yourself the most” is probably one of the hardest ones for people, especially parents, to grasp. They may feel selfish even though, in reality, it is very logical.
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Hi Elise,
sorry for the late reply ,but I found the comment in the spam folder .
Did not see it before.
Yes, you are right ,”love yourself the most”,is difficult and many
think it is selfish or egoistic it is often misunderstood. Being selfish
or egoistic is when we want others to be like we want. But if we do not love
and accept ourselves we can not give love to others easily. If one always feels
not good enough instead of giving he may rather want to get attention and love.
Also, if we as a parent are not happy with ourselves everybody around us is affected.
Would be something to think and write about 🙂
Thank you for your comment
Erika