Wonder World

Can you recall, our great grandfathers did not know whats beyond their land. And our grandfathers did not know whats beyond their roof.

Meaning, humans did not know what was the shape of the earth before Aristotle find few good reasons to prove that the shape of earth is rather spherical. Additionally, no one knew most of our celestial bodies and their significance in the creation of our Universe. But, being an intelligent animal, human found out few facts around them. Now, compared to my grandfather I know more stuff and concepts.

Now coming to the point, if we extend this pattern to our children and their children we can easily agree that our future children will know much more than us. So at some point of time, can we claim that some generation of us will know exactly what we don't know today? The intriguing questions like why the earth is spherical in shape and why most of our celestial bodies are revolving around one another Or rotating on their own.

Similarly, our great grandfather could not have possibly travelled few miles in one day using their old cart and Buffalo. And our grand father could have hardly travelled hundreds of miles. Now, we can round around the world in few hours provided we have sufficient fuel to fly! Also, if our Airline hasn't become bankrupt yet :-)

Can we simply apply the pattern matching concept here? Can we claim that one of our generation boys will go around our Solar System in few hours provided they have sufficient fuel? I don't know! But the question is more open..
Time to think again! Bye

Matinee Time..

Yesterday, I unexpectedly watched a movie which was one among the most acclaimed movies of 2006. 'Pan's Labyrinth', a Spanish film concentrating on the fairy world of a young girl Ofelia, a girl who loves to read fairy tale books. At the same time, the film concentrates on postwar events in Spain. The film catches your concentration, right from the beginning narrating the story of mythological king waiting for his daughter who eludes from underground world to see the outside world. But the Sun-Light makes her memory blank allowing her to spend rest of her life on earth and died soon after. But, the king kept his waiting for years in the hope someday his daughter's spirit will return.

Although the storyline looks comic, the film does not really looks comic. Even though the director uses lots of magical creatures through out the film, they have not been portrayed as comic creatures. The film is a perfect blend of pain and happiness. Sometimes, you feel so happy about the events and in very next moment the earth will turn all upside down in the film. Perfect characters with perfect actors and perfect script has made the film just perfect to watch.

At one moment, you can see a little girl braving the giant toad to get a key from his belly. In another moment, you can see a little girl telling story to her brother inside her mother's womb just to soothe him , calm him inside. The beautiful scene is when Ofelia, literally begs her brother still in womb, not to discomfort her mother with his restlessness and asks him not to trouble her mothers life when he comes out. Nonetheless, Ofelia's mother dies in childbirth after giving birth to a healthy son.

I also watched Hindi movie, Arth starring Shabana Azmi. Its also a nice movie just that the film debates the meaning of marriage using its characters. The best part of the movie is its climax, when Shabana chooses her life without anyone's influence and decides to spend rest of her life just as Pooja not any Pooja Malhotra or Pooja Raj. Just because, Pooja on herself is very complete and she does not require any Malhotra/Raj to complete her name.

Provocation

..how do you feel when you think you are independent. Independent of group, society, nation and culture. Think of a situation when you wake up in the morning, you realise you have become free. You are free to do anything; whatever you want, in a natural way, peaceful way. Addition to it, if you realise you have been let to think very freely, infinitely, limitless without any boundaries , without any regulations....

I don't know what this condition can be called as! Also, I do not know what doctors will call this condition as. But I like this condition as it allows one to think freely, relentlessly, uninterruptedly.

I met a person today, who was considered to be a Guru although he refused to call himself as Guru. According to him, you can be enlightened only when you are are ready to be enlightened.. No external factors, no assists, even not a supreme god can enlighten you unless you are ready to take it. And he believed in the above ideas where he wants to be free; free from everything of this world; Free from relationships, commitments, reasons and agreements. He simply believed in thinking freely on the very existence of humans.

I will not disclose the person name here, because it is his life which is very thought provoking rather than a person himself.

Freakonomics

Here we go again. The next question for this month is 'How is this universe working?'.

Oh.. Hang on, before I can ask that question to myself I need to explore on 'Is human is a very Intelligent animal?' Well.. scientists say so.
But, I need to ask myself why should I call Humans as Intelligent animal? After all, they are also just one among several animals of universe.
Again, scientists have given reason for this question as 'Humans have very well formed and well developed brain?' But, being a very practical person I cannot agree on that statement. Just because, I cannot measure/analyse /assess that statement. Also, the statement has been written by Humans only. I don't remember any other animal saying so.

Can we claim ourselves as intelligent just because, we can destroy other animals to extinct? or we can just destroy our nature as we need? or we can just make electrons to run in a path? or we can run a multi-billion dollar business? or we can just give a visit to moon and come back without any risk of life?
I will post a reasonable answer whenever possible. Till then start thinking?

Motivators

I have been thinking from quite a few days, asking myself what does really motivation means? Why is it required? What if, if we don't get motivated? How it does help one? Sorry for being so pragmatic, but I like to think about these things just for fun..

Do you believe me if I say I get motivated by listening to songs! As a perosn I am not who believes everything unless I feel something or unless it really makes sense to me. Thats the reason I asked you this question!

So the answer from you can be, why in the hell should I believe you mate? I am all here reading your creepy lengthy blog, (which does not make any sense most of the times). On the top of it, you ask me questions!

But I can't stop asking questions! Thats what I have learnt from my life. I always try to ask myself some question to myself so that I can start finding a suitable, close answer to it. I call this theme as 'a question for a month'. So this time, I got an answer for above question I asked. Just want to share it with you, please bear with me.
The answer to above question is 'Everything in this world is a motivator'. If you can, motivate yourself you can motivate any other person. But its not always required to get motivated. Because, motivation is a catalyst for some action which may happen in ones life. And the action may take place or may not. It can happen under very normal conditions or it may require a motivator to happen.
Today I got motivated listening to a song sung by 'Chitra'. Its 'Nadeem dheem thana.. ' from Galipata movie. Below is the youtube URL if you also want to get motivated:
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=CpngdRDszKA
Thats for today, will write back to you sooner, bye