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It’s no secret

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Haseena Jethmalani

Posted: Feb 01, 2008 at 0111 hrs IST

After months of hearing rave reviews of the book and movie The Secret, I finally succumbed to media hype and bought the book. I seem to be one of the few people who could not get passed the second page. Despite several attempts, I couldn’t quite fathom it's message and found its context extremely confusing. If life was really about achieving, conquering and obtaining what we desire through secret positive thoughts, we would be living amongst a crazed population.

A young man committed suicide after secretly dreaming of marrying his college girlfriend. Reality did not quite allow him to accept that she was already happily married and lived in another country. With him were found poems to his love and a letter abusing the author. Can you imagine how many women would land up being spinsters all their lives? They would be busy building castles in the air, secretly hoping that Akshay Kumar would in fact leave his family for them. George Clooney would have been married a countless times by now, and as far Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt and Antonio Banderas are concerned, they would have fathered millions.

Karisma Kapur should not be scared seeing her husband play Polo. Should she stop being a wife and concentrate on being positive? We would all own

Ferraris and we’d all be successful. Why should we even bother trying? It's so much easier to sit on a couch and dream—voila—may be after a positive siesta every man will become the next Anil Ambani.

Who's to say how much and what we want is right or wrong? How many secrets are we allowed to have? How big are we allowed to dream?

My friend’s only dream is to be the next Julia Roberts. I have seen her act and frankly she wouldn’t be the next Rakhi Sawant. But who am I to spoil her dreams? Or should I be a true friend and tell her the bitter truth. She is convinced after reading the book that she will be beckoned by Hollywood. She spends hours reading the same paragraph from the book and won’t acknowledge that she doesn’t get called back after a screen test.

I think it is safer to live in reality and not Disneyworld. You need to be lucky and you need to be positive but there is no secret to knowing that Anil Ambani has got where he has through hard work and determination. He dreamed to run the marathon and he succeeded. Had he dreamed of winning, he probably would not be who he is today.

Every model would be Mehr Jessia and every dancer Shiamak Davar. No child would get ill, friends would not let you down, parents would not divorce and people would not cheat each other.

If every dream came true there would be no secrets. So the next you visit the Buckingham Palace, watch out for the lady with the tiara—I am dreaming big for now.

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