Hello there! I know... I know it’s been a long time I haven’t blogged but here it is hope you’ll like it. I guess it brings a lot of internal satisfaction to talk about your feelings with your friends and thanks to social media you can do it in any part of the world and still stay connected as if it was a chat over a cup of coffee.
Now lot of my friends ask me this question including myself... (Yes “I talk to myself like most of us do! and there is nothing weird about it” I think it is the realization of this inner voice that makes us more human and connected to our own self).
Life’s conundrum can’t be solved reading few pages, books or spending hours or days pondering about it. It can only be understood while “living it”. Yes that’s what most of us forget! It is not about “will you ever get what you want” – A perfect house, perfect partner, perfect money, perfect career and so many perfects. It is actually the perception of this so called “perfectness” that introduces the misery.
As the rat in the movie “ratatouille” says... hang on! I should ask you to watch the movie instead Ha! Never mind here is the excerpt and when you get a chance please do watch the movie! It’s funny but one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. And yes it is a cartoon film or probably if I should say it’s a “Pixar” animation that should be enough.
Django: [showing the exterminator shop to Remy with the dead rats in the window] Take a good long look, Remy. This is what happens when a rat gets a little too comfortable around humans. The world we live in belongs to the enemy, we must live carefully. We look out for our own kind, Remy. When all is said and done, we're all we've got.
Remy: [Django starts to walk away] No.
Django: What?
Remy: No. Dad I don't believe it. You're telling me that the future is - can only be more of *this*?
Django: This is the way things are. You can't change nature.
Remy: Change is nature, Dad. The part that we can influence. And it starts when we decide.
Django: [Remy turns to leave] Where are you going?
Remy: With luck, forward.
Remy: [Django starts to walk away] No.
Django: What?
Remy: No. Dad I don't believe it. You're telling me that the future is - can only be more of *this*?
Django: This is the way things are. You can't change nature.
Remy: Change is nature, Dad. The part that we can influence. And it starts when we decide.
Django: [Remy turns to leave] Where are you going?
Remy: With luck, forward.
I’ve “bold” the lines that are of immense importance in this scene.
How true it is “Change is nature! the part that we can influence and it starts when we decide”. Yes sometimes “life sucks” eventually we come to an end of so called “sucking” and fall into another situation where we’ll be “sucked” henceforth. It’s a vicious circle from cradle to grave. Just look at your life or maybe a good look around, you will find so many stories all over the place. Someone is unhappy about something. I tell you the good news is... you are not the only one! Ha!
Think of it this way “if you are dead tomorrow” how important will be the context of “life sucks” to you? It immediately brings a shift in your thoughts, needs and wants. Will you still be saying “life sucks?” or will you be saying “I want to live!” May be you would like to go to Paris or run to your loved ones? I don’t know what it will be that you want to do before you are gone but thinking about it immediately brings a shift in your state of mind.
Then why not ask yourself this question every time you feel down, dejected or exasperated? Ask yourself “Is this something that you’ll really care about if it was your last day?” This definitely helps me “live life King size” and with luck, keep moving forward!
I promise I’ll write another post soon with another great movie quote till then keep grinning!
