My apologies; it took a while to get this blog out but never the less, I wanted to talk about one of my all time favourite film. The Shawshank Redemption, my friend actually gave it to me to watch this sometime back and I loved it so much that I ended up watching it twice. You will have to watch the whole film to understand the depth of acting, direction and writing but there is this one quote that is quite inspiring:
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Red: [narrating] I find I'm so excited; I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.
Red: [narrating] I find I'm so excited; I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.
Hope is all we live on isn’t it? hope to have all the goodies we wanted as a child, hope to have the perfect life partner, hope to get the dream career, hope to have the dream car, dream house and what not. Why is hope that important? I believe it’s actually part of our unconscious world, which we want to turn into reality. Hope is the beginning of all we wish to convert into reality. How to do that is little tricky! Some people does it quite well others probably not that much but hey! it doesn’t stops from keeping the hope alive.
In theory we always hope for the best things to happen and in reality sometimes most of them turn out to be best for us. Not really? OK let’s take an example:
Sometime back I started a training company; I lived the dream of doing what I wanted to do for a long time. Left a well paying job, went overseas toiled hard later to find out that, I was broke. Soon I had to start all over again. It was totally out of alignment result from what I would have hoped for. But later on, I realised the lessons I learned and mistakes I made was probably the trigger of that trough. It was bound to happen that way, the moment I had the answer I immediately got free from the burden of failure.
It is called connecting the dots, sometimes we probably think it’s not worth chasing the dream any longer. Probably it’s not worth making the next step but sooner or later you will realise that, what happened was actually part of the bigger picture.
Wait for that moment to come until then it is worth keeping the hope Alive!
