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inspired from my favourite author Paulo Coelho’s ‘Adultery’, this post was so
unexpected , so sudden and so long pending. I have always hated waiting...
waiting for the right time…waiting for the right things …waiting for the right
people and so on. We all wait… rather than stepping up and doing something
about it...we all tend to wait. “The trouble is we think we have time.” This
simple line Sri Buddha said has to be the most sensible thing I have
heard in a long while. I haven’t visited this space in ages.. I kept pushing it
for another day…always felt I can do it any time I want.. a better day..a
better song..a better mood… but today..I decided to just write!
"Life
changes fast… life changes in the instant...” Joan Didion’s words are simple
yet intense...straight forward yet magically poetic and they can’t be truer. There
are things that happen that change your views and perceptions about things and
people. True that the most priceless things in this world are not ‘things’.I
believe it’s very important to take a break….stop doing things that we do every
day…and do something off the routine to surprise and delight ourselves. I have
been staying away from the usual for some time now, and I spent this time
catching up on some amazing movies I have missed watching in time. It was in fact a
catching up with myself too… and two
of them in particular did that rare thing of touching my soul.
‘Highway’
that gave a break to the actor in Alia Bhatt and the Malayalam movie ‘Varsham’
which made me believe once again in the treasure of a talent Sree Mammotty is.
When highway talks about the unusual serene bond between Veera and Mahabir and
how one journey turns out to be life changing for Veera, ‘Varsham’ portrays the
relationship between a couple and their son and how they turn the biggest
tragedy of their life into a tale of hope and life to many.
Life
by all means looks like a story when we look behind. We deal with the most unexpected
situations and people and they change the way we perceive life itself. Our losses,
whatever they are…leave us deserted and shattered. When Veera had to face the
agony of an abused childhood bringing her up and how she turns out Mahabir’s
absence from life into something unbelievably fulfilling, Venugopal of ‘Varsham’ struggles to cop
up with the sudden demise of his only son. It amazed me to see how beautifully
these characters managed to rise from the ashes for a purpose much greater and
much worthwhile.
We
lose people to the inevitable… we lose them to reality…sometimes we just lose the
person we believed someone was… the truth is …we simply lose! Reality is
that thing which doesn't go away, when we stop believing in it. It is up to us
how we want to deal with the loss. True that in the space between a ‘yes’ or
‘no’, there is a lifetime. It’s the difference between the path you walk and
the one you leave behind; it’s the gap between who you thought you could be and
who you really are. Our time is really limited. Let’s not waste it living
someone else’s life. This is our one chance to be us. Let’s not be trapped by
the dogma, which is living with the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t
let the voice of other people’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. So very true! Let’s wake
up and be fully alive to life!
Here’s
sharing two soulful tracks that convey the depth and intensity of the bond
between the people in those two brilliant movies.‘Sooha
Saha’ from Highway and ‘Kari mukilukal’ from Varsham. Let the songs speak for
themselves!
"If you lose hope, somehow you lose the
vitality that keeps you moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that
helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream."
PS: This post goes out for the ones who have always chosen to 'stay' despite all the odds.. all the flaws.. all the distance .
