Weird Times...... :S

There are times when you look back and remember that you haven't been thankful to the world at large for a lot many things.There are times when u realize that u have been looking at things from the peripheral views and just been taking them for granted.There are times when u misjudge someone's value...this some one might be your own self also.There are times when you realize that you have been cribbing too much of late on very trivial issues.There are occasions when u turn around and look back only to realize that life does keep moving on as they say.And that is the moment of truth; the one and only time when rationale follows, when mind is actually able to comprehend the cause of some effect. You might realize that you are right or you are wrong but regardless of that you tend to stick to the very thought process you have been following. Probably this is what they call the resistance to change.But then, in this resistance we become blind not only to the alternatives but also to the other things which life offers us.
Sometimes you are so much in flow of life that you fail to notice small small things which when realized ; make you wonder how could you miss this..!! A weird feeling it is....believe me on that. You keep speeding your mind in reverse gear and then you start relating things and joining the dots. All the events which had been hazy now are crystal clear.
There are other times when some thought strikes you hard...so hard that you tend to come to a certain conclusion or decision which you maintain to the extent possible.These thoughts or an advice maybe poles apart from your own thought process or belief system but still you tend to digress from your view and try to
experiment with the new one. Your faith on your rock solid believes is shook and then you try experimenting with the new one much to your own chagrin. In the end you come back to your own comfortable space and your own way of doing things but loose your own mental piece in the way.
The only solution to most of the above that I find is to find happiness in little things of life, being thankful to the gift of abundance and being flexible in the thoughts at the same time not highly malleable.Probably it might work for others as well.

the three idiots hangover

There are times when a certain line from a song, a certain book or a certain movie, or even something which a kith said leaves a deep mark deep there within...! You don't pay heed to that at first but then in that last 5-10 mins when u lie down in solitude before sleeping, you realize what a revelation it was, something u always knew and still never thought about it in this detail and then you come to realize that how much this issue, this thought, this topic related to your own life and how you have been just playing blind to it forever.
It happened with me when I saw 3 idiots...the brilliant screenplay and dialogues left me laughing intermittently throughout the movie and I came out promising myself to watch this movie again. Later that night when I was in my bed it struck me...this had been soooo all around us.Hell..!
The Joy Lobo scene; when being disappointed with the discouragement by the faculty and the fear to disappoint his hardworking dad, set to be the first engineer in the village, the poor guy hung himself with the writing on the wall being I QUIT...I revisited the suicide rate our engineering college was sadly infamous for. Though the media loved to throw the mud in the name of ragging, a lot of suicides were the result of failure to stand up to the expectations, towering pillars of expectations of your family, relatives, the society, some girl you loved, your own-self! The carrier of the expectation may be different in each case but was unfailingly always there.
Once you are in the engineering college all the outside stakeholders look for is the day when you find that big fat paycheck giving company that picks you up and gives you all the amenities and post u in phoren and you make them proud.What transpires in the process is a different story altogether. And probably what parents dont realise is that the big fat paycheck is not growing on trees and is only the privilege of a lucky few.The placement scenes with the pressure built around reminded me of belonging to the engineering batch that suffered the recession plight.
Another thing that stuck chords with me was the amazing song before the sequence called " Give me some sunshine". Simple nice lyrics and again well meant.

Kandhon ko kitabon
Ke bojh ne jhukaya
Rishvat dena to khud
Papa ne sikhya
99% marks laaoge to
ghadi varna chadi

99 is the new 90.When I took my class 12th, my humble 83 was a decent. Not as if it was the 17th century. Now last year my cousin scored a 97.8 and was still cribbing over the maths sum she spoiled.I mean if i ever get scores like that I would like never ever complain on anything. And its not just her, the two professors she has as parents were also in the same state. Parents cribbing about the kid's marks is not an unheard of story anyways. But the bar is rising and rising too high.Probably they will have to make space for a more than perfect score. But does that not rob us of a lot ? Personally speaking I miss all the family get together/weddings/trips/fun family moments ever since I have been living in the hostel. Not only that, I have seen my little cousins being literally dragged into studying when all they wanted was to join their peers in the games in the park. One of my cousin at the age of 10 learns guitar, plays soccer for his school team, was learning tennis, swimming,and God only knows what else and I remember all I did at that age was to roam around the house in the summers and maybe read a story book or enjoy junglebook and aladin.
Changing Times and what else..!