Can We? Part III

Remember the 1^st day at school? It would be surely full of cry and your parents pitching you inside the whole new arena of which you were utterly scared of.

With days and years, the school became an inseparable part of our life and we were given the best of the teachings under the sun. We were prepared for upcoming tomorrow and the bare necessities to which we should adhere to in our life time. A day in history makes us again cry for the same school on parting ways, for which we cried on the fear of joining. They say history repeats itself, but, the former part is not repeated in graduation days, of course the later one compensating the tears. If at all we go for PG, the history of graduation is repeated, but, this is part and parcel of our life time.

We do cherish the moments spent over there. It is strange that if we look back onto the memories: We cry for the happiest moments spent with our friends, and laugh on ourselves for the bitter fights we had during those times.

Inseparable are those friends and the learning’s also which we gather through books, consulting with experts, guest lectures, faculty, library and so on with the various avenues of learning available in front of us during that period.

But, is it really Schooling, Graduation, and PG for that matter, the whole and sole of your learning avenue throughout life time. Or is there something more under the sun which can be integral part of your learning avenue.

What is your best hang out place to be with: Your Family; Friends; Boy Friend/Girl Friend; The Special One; and the list go on with the number of people you would like to hang out with. The places are also numerous on roll: Movie; Garden; Restaurant; Fast Food Chain; A lot can happen over a Coffee; and Trust me a lot more can happen over a walk too.

Coming back to the point of learning avenue, do you really think that you can learn something when you are on a hang out with someone? Sorry, for making this sound bore, but, do believe we can learn a lot by our hang outs only, than going through the mere pages of curriculum book.

Let us talk about: Movies being part of learning avenue.

I will ask you some more questions, but, do answer only the last 1 because I am sure, to all the earlier ones your head will give a nod.

Have you watched ‘Chak De India’?

Have you watched ‘Iqbaal’?

How about ‘3 Idiots’? (You surely can’t miss this one)

If we talk about ‘Lakshya’? (Do you have one in your life?)

So, learnt anything from any of these movies? I had these 4 in mind, there are always a lot of them in Bollywood.

Would love to share my experiences with you from these movies:

Chak De India:

Lots of them, but, the coolest one lies in the scene: When Shahrukh Khan is meeting the ‘Indian National Women’s Hockey Team’ for the 1^st time. A gorgeous Preeti Sabharwal turns up late and a heated conversation follows on between him and her. Not to write down the whole dialogue over here, but, the best one written for this scene by Jaideep Sahni is:

‘And I am the coach of Indian National Women’s Hockey Team, mujhe states ke naam na sunaiye dete hain, na dikhaye dete hain, sirf ek mulk ka naam sunaiye deta hain: INDIA’.

Hope this much is enough for you to grab the essence of what I am trying to explain about our narrow thoughts of mind.

If require further more from this movie, check out this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE-kAzBhkkk

Iqbal:

A story truly inspirational in its own way. A deaf and mute boy played by Shreyas Talpade won the hearts of many. This movie would give many a moral at the end, but, for me the true learning was hiding somewhere in the middle of the film.

During one of the many training sessions, Iqbal receives from his alcoholic Coach (Naseeruddin Shah), the later one quotes a dialogue written by: Nagesh Kukunoor, which goes like this:

‘Yeh dimag ka khel hain jo dil se khela jata hain’.

Quite confusing one outright, at the end of this scene, another one is in the pipeline, giving explanation of this:

‘Dimag aur dil jab ek saath kaam karte hain na, toh farak nahi padta ke dimag kaunsa hain aur dil kaunsa hain’.

True facts, now, just ponder upon your life and ask yourself, when was the last time you thought by your heart and felt with your mind. Confusing, ok, let me make it simple one, when was the last time your heart and mind agreed in unison to do a particular work.

But, it is quite often with us that: Our mind calling us out to perform a particular task, on the other hand our heart wandering in the gardens of imagination, which is very beautiful indeed.

Just talk about this: You want Win – Win situation or Win – Lose one. Try out first one and you will be happier in your life always, than trying the later one, as in second case it is something of your own which is on the losing side, and then be it Mind or Heart.

3 Idiots:

Have the gut in you to be an Idiot in today’s Rat Race? At least no need of giving in here any dialogue from this movie, I feel it must be still afresh in your mind and heart.

Just to sum up with one liner of: Ranchhoddas Shamaldas Chanchad:

‘Bacha kabil bano kabil, kamyabi toh saali jhak marke piche bhagegi’.

So, is it that Grades running behind us, or the other way round?

Lakshya:

A brilliant performance by ‘Hrithik Roshan’ and the multi-talented ‘Farhan Akhtar’. How many of us in our lives just go through the transformation phase for the betterment, as Karan did?

Apart from this, let me share with you a good one from this movie, which emphasizes on Thinking beyond an Individual.

As Karan enters IMA, Dehradun, the very 1^st day, all of the selected candidates are given a brief speech on the Culture of IMA and Indian Military at large, which goes like this:

‘Sabse pehle Country, phir Army, phir apne Saathi, aur sabse akhir main apni Zindagi ka khayal yeh IMA se trained officer ki pehchaan hain’.

Ask yourself a question, are we prepared for this today or even the organizations which we join, do they nurture this kind of culture amongst their colleagues.

I am not here to provide any answers, as it will only confuse me a lot.

But, deep somewhere in my soul I ask myself a question: Can We shift to new learning avenues of life, Can We look forward to every moment experience of our life, as a learning curve so that we will constantly evolve ourselves as a better human being.

Can We? Part II

Great People in and around this world are made up of which ingredient, is still a question mark, to get resolved.

There are numerous examples in world today of amazingly great people who are at astounding heights of their career, and rule the heart of millions.

A lot is talked about them and their greatness, few of which I will present here:

a) Are they born with the talent, they are possessing?

b) Or is it their sheer hard work and passion, which takes them to great heights?

c) Some of them are born with Silver Spoon in mouth.

d) Individual characteristics help them out in different scenarios to climb up the ladder.

Whatever it is, no definite answer can be given to this one, of why some people are able to achieve greatness in their life?

I do believe in a common thing which I feel have always been part and parcel of the life of the many greats we have seen and heard of, around us.

That is: A Power to Think Big. A power to think beyond an individual, a passion to believe and trash the reality in front to come up with beautiful works just to amaze common people surrounding them.

Just now, ponder upon yourself and think when you had really in your life time thought something big. You thought of something which benefited the people surrounding you. Don’t tell me about the decision or a thought which you took for your family, this is done by everyone else in life.

Have you ever thought about something which is called as ‘Vision’? Were you ever passionate about something in your life, which was meant to be big and was beneficial to everyone related to it?

Let me ask you a question again: Who are you?

You would certainly like to answer this one, with your name. Some pestering from my side, would make you to call out your family name, some more would make you to say about the culture you related to, the region to which you belong, and then the country, continent, and the last would be, with bit of irritation: World Citizen.

Now, just check this out:

Do we really think as if we are citizens of this world rather than just thinking of part of some family, or region, or country for that matter?

Can we go in reverse order of thinking for my question of: Who are you? And start recognizing ourselves as part of this global community first rather than in the beginning only, start recognizing ourselves as part of few people who are associated with us.

With due to respect to an individual’s family relations, and the issues pertaining in a family, can we really think of this World as our family and then try to solve the problems surrounding it, at our own level?

Rather than doing this, what we tend do are certain things given below:

1) After certain years of our life, when we are about to settle ourselves, we think of dividing the property among our siblings;

2) The sibling with whom our upbringing has been shared, after certain years of our marriage, we start feeling like his/her family not being part of our own. It is never about physically living of families which matter, I agree, but, do we really practice it to care and nurture our sibling’s family, as we do with our own ones.

So, I feel if we are unable to think this much big also, then we are not going to learn at any point of time in our life: A Power to Think Great, which is always beyond an individual’s benefit.