Ruby Sparks : Me :: Calvin : God

What if I am Ruby Sparks and Calvin is God?

After watching Ruby Sparks, this was the first thought came to my mind! We often complain about the state we are usually put in by God! We have a unique kind of way to believe that God chose only us to be in some situation! Then either we make some philosophy of how we can get over with the situation we are in or we start crying and complaining about how cruel God is for placing us in such situation!

God has created us! Agreed? If yes, then the next question arises as a consequence is, How does God look like? What's his religion? Is he unique? Are there many? So many questions and only frustrating answers! Religions try to simplify it but actually making it even worse!

Enter Ruby Sparks! Throughout the movie, we always have that particular feeling that Calvin should stop manipulating Ruby for his own sake! After going along the trajectories of Ruby's life, we start feeling sorry about how she can be manipulated by Calvin almost instantly and she's having no life of her own! How desperately we wish to see her living her own life, be it good or bad! Do we really want Calvin to interfere? Do we really want Calvin to manipulate? Do we really want Calvin to be there every time around to make choices for Ruby?

No! No no no no!!

If after creating Ruby, Calvin should never interfere in her life for any reason, why should God interfere in our life after creating us? If Ruby is Ruby on her own and not by Calvin, Why can't we be ourselves on our own? If manipulation makes Ruby lose her existence, how can we sustain ours if we ask God to manipulate ourselves every time we are in any fix?

Be thankful to God for creating us! But please don’t ask him to write you always! Make your own way! Make your own choices! Do whatever you want to do! It might bring failures or even circumstances big enough to make you cry! Whatever! But please don't ask him to put his hands on that typewriter! By asking him to write you, you are making yourself exactly like that Ruby who barked and who jumped in vein!

We are God's wonderful creation and he's real busy in creating more and more Rubys around! Let him do his work and let us live the life written for us by him!

Ruby Sparks might be a love story or may be more philosophical than what I perceived! But I quite like taking it the way I wrote up above! This movie provides enough life lessons to learn! It also warns us not to write other's lives! We should adapt to live with all Ruby Sparks around rather than writing them for our self pseudo-geniusness!

Cinema offers lot to learn ! So does Ruby Sparks!

Sacrifice : Long way to go_Mind Finger Connection

I am back again with the mind finger connection thing. This time it's for sacrifice before you own.

Its weird but true. So many things in the world are like giving away. Not everything that you can own even if you want to. You have to move back. You have to give it to others. To the world. It demands. You have to surrender. Sacrifices have a long list of surrenders. They surrender not because they are timid or incapable. They surrender for some good cause. They surrender for making something or someone happy. They want to see some people happy and that's the reason why they surrender.

We can start with soldiers. In fact they sacrifice all they have only in the hope that their sacrifice won't go in vain. It'll make the country better and inspire a lot out there to follow their legacy. They are real hero. Most often Unsung. Their sacrifices bring peace to the nation. We can sleep well in the night and talk about shitty things all the day long because we know that someone's out there to protect us. They deserve much more than such metallic medals compensating for their invaluable sacrifice. They need to be celebrated more than our film or cricket hero.

Then come the parents. They raise their children by giving up all their pleasures and hobbies in life and dedicating all days and night only towards their children's future. They do everything. Every small and little thing is being taken care of. They never miss it. Especially those parents having only a girl or two as their child. When that girl gets married, she goes in her new world like a free bird leaving the nest forever and parents are watching her going away. This is not a simple kind of sacrifice.

Both of these sacrifices are often considered as a duty rather than sacrifice.

But I'm not here to discuss those sacrifices and others. We can also take into consideration the filmy sacrifices of Mr. Vanraj of Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam or Mr. Arjun of Namastey London or Mr. Manu of Tanu weds Manu. All have given sacrifice of their love once but in the end they got their love back as it was considered as true love. But all those things are little filmy. Aren't they?

What sacrifice I wanna talk about is the sacrifice without getting something. Chasing the match, hitting boundaries and sixes and taking the team to winning position and sacrificing the wicket for others and in the end losing the match for no good reason. Sacrifice is a heavy word. I just started realizing this after writing these much about it. And the game changes..........

I have to put an end to this sacrifice thing because after writing these much about it I've started understanding that it's a tough call. If you don't get something of your liking or your choice, it doesn't mean that you are sacrificing. It's a heavy word and deserves the best. Not such situations like I'm in. So I've to put a full stop to this blog and to uproot the wiring of my mind-finger connection before it takes out something weird.

. [A Full Stop]