A poem that I wrote once

This is a poem that I wrote to my husband once. This was the time when I was a student and we were living away from each other in two different cities, and I was thinking of him during valentine's day.

"In my dreams I think of you,
In my thoughts I have you;
I cherish your memories,
I smile remembering you.

The times that we have spent,
As good and bad they can get,
For every moment is precious to me,
The place you reside is in my heart!"

Million $ Baby!

This past weekend, we saw Million dollar baby on Netflix. I know that movie was an academy award winner and all, but I really don't care too much about boxing movies and never really cared to see it earlier.

This movie is really not much about boxing, well although the 'million $ girl' is a fighter/boxer - the movie is more about passion and about achieving your dream/s. Her determination to do what she wanted was really inspirational. I just loved the movie overall, loved the direction and acting by Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman and of course the lady Hillary Swank.

She achieves everything she ever wanted in life (i.e to be a fighter) and get trained by the most talented boxing trainer, but somehow the ending of the movie made me feel bad and somehow felt the ending wasn't correct. To state it briefly, she get's injured severely during the final championship for the ultimate title and breaks almost every bone in her body. She ends up in the hospital and pleads her 'boss', the trainer, to put her to rest saying that she doesn't have any regrets and that she has achieved whatever she wanted. The boss injects a serum into her and within minutes she passes away peacefully in her sleep.

I guess being used to more bollywood movies where the ending is almost always happy, I just wasn't happy with the ending! I had a 2 hr discussion with my husband about the ending after seeing the movie that night.  After the discussions with my husband, I realized that despite your best efforts, sometimes you may not achieve your 'ultimate goal' (in her case, the title for the championship) but you may have already achieved success/happiness when you have taken the path of your passion and your dreams. 

Anyway, I learned something from this movie and it will always be one of those movies that has touched me emotionally and I encourage everyone who hasn't seen it yet to go get the DVD.  

Reflections on thy self and Life

Some days life just goes on. You feel like you are in a silent movie, or you are set in a still mode waiting for the key to be turned so that you can start moving again. You feel the world's passing by and you are stuck somewhere in a path where there are no choices, or maybe too many choices and hence the confusion. You find that life presents to you different pieces/paths similar to a jigsaw puzzle and you are trying to connect the pieces or the dots together.

You just hope and pray that things will fall in their place. Sometimes, I feel I'm stuck at a traffic light that is red and I'm just waiting there forever to move. These are the days when it's hard concentrating on anything and you get lost in thoughts wondering what your next step should be.

Recently I am trying to pick up on a hobby (painting) that would keep me engaged in times like this, and keep my mind diverted away from the daily mundane things.

I wonder if anyone else feels like this and what they do to overcome such feelings and emotions?

Wishes and Dreams

You wish, life was sometimes as simple as an innocent dream, where you don’t want to lose that moment you dream about something. You just want to hold on to it, till time slips away from your hand. Ever wondered why, some dreams are too real, to be believed?

You always wish you were smiling, and cheerful, as if you were the happiest person on this earth! You wish a few incidents never happened in your life, at the same time you so very wish those dreams which seemed so real, just were real!! You wish, you went back in time, and changed yourself, maybe? Or maybe just freeze everything around you to get what you always wanted! How amazing would it be if we all had the power to do some really magical things, like make our dreams come true? Or perhaps, had the power to just change things around us to make it appear like a fairy world! (Yes, I am a dreamy person!)

Reality is, most of us had things in life which happened, which we never had control of.  We always felt we were right or did the right thing, then how could something go drastically wrong? Does it go wrong, because I dream about it? Would you then, consider yourself a failure and give up on yourself? Would you just stop trying? Would you say, I will dream no more?

There is a simple saying that goes somewhere along these lines, "live life to your fullest each and every day", as if there were no tomorrow, same is applicable to our dreams. As said by David Bower, “Dream the dreams... that have never been dreamt” Those dreams can infact sometimes represent our inner self, what motivates us, or simply tell us what we are lacking, or maybe what we truly already are..but unable to accept it! Well, In my opinion, though it sounds good to believe that our dreams will come true for real, it always doesn't happen that way until we make it happen (plus throw in some luck factor too).

Thought for today: Look forward to each day in life, and greet every moment with a big smile, only this can change our day!