Help… such a difficult thing

Heard a family in delhi … killed themselves…..all of them including their baby…. apparently they were fed up with life… the situation it out them through….i guess they got depressed…..

We all do at times…. chronically sometimes….but why don’t we seek help??… i don’t understand that…i don’t know why we don’t reach out to others when we know that life is getting shitty…. just someone anyone … friends are the first ones we can talk to …. but then sometimes their life gets very busy…… and somewhere ego comes in…. very few of us get soul-mates… one who can understand what you are going through without you telling the person anything… one who accepts you completely.. well no wonder we don’t find too many of them…

I think we all must have a course in school that trains us for the tough world out there….  but a part of me deep inside says… “what the use… it’ll just get tougher… “…..or least the one that teaches us how to ask for help….. i guess this problem is very prominent in the middle-class….. most of us want to live with this facade that everything … every time is always fine…  and are scared or embarrassed to project anything else ……. with the rising suicides at all ages….. schools, colleges…. work place….. I sometimes wonder if our generation can ever live up to being “happy” ever…. you know the art of being happy from the inside….

 

mythology is back….

Watched Raavan and Rajneeti.

In my opinion, both are lovely!…

On one hand, Rajneeti stuck to its original story, the Mahabharath… good potrayal of how politics is manipulated by people in power and how a woman was and is treated like a “thing” to be gambled with… was dynamic, ruthless… definitely an ‘A’ certification was needed but was missed… more than all… made me dislike “Krishna” more… i believe that  things could have ended differently…. and yes, duryodhana was ambitious….  then he was a tyrant, now -a-days, they are referred to as entrepreneurs .. A good watch and i had a lovely time!

Raavan , it did not stick to its original story… it rather was a “in-ur-face”   about Ram’s character…  i was grinning all the time coz it was like my version of the character was being played out right on the screen…

I have not liked “Rama” in Ramayana either… why?.. he did not trust his wife. The guy was a great son, a great ruler, but not a good father or Husband… and i personally, can never admire a guy who does not respect women or children. Though Sita ditched him in the end in Ramayan,  i did not like the part where Rama wanted Sita to walk through fire to proove her purity of mind and body, that too, for the sake of “people”.

In the “Raavan” movie however, she does not take non-sense and refuses to walk through fire…. but ends up loosing her soul-mate… who is Raavan here… Even in the mythological book i always wondered… why couldn’t Ravan have her when he could?… why wait for her approval of him if he was really a beastly person as he was portrayed to be….

Ofcourse i enjoyed Raavan – the movie; though it has not got any good reviews… i guess we need a different level of wavelength to appreciate a movie like that….

Animal Sacrifices and our rituals

I thought it was banned. But when i recently went to madurai, i was asked to go to a temple with my extended family. It was a “celebration” of spring.

There were lots of people and it was more like a fare rather than a temple.. i was suprised to see so many people at 7 in the morning….

As i looked around i saw some animals being carried by people… it dint strike me at first but when i saw the beginning of “queue” to my horror i saw that a man was busy cutting away the throats of roasters….. i felt almost dizzy and dint know how to react….

I was angry , hurt and could not stop crying… could not look that way…. WHAT were these PEOPLE DOING?????

I could not stop them…. the cops were around and they were just not doing anything…..

i realized why i hated my religious practices as a kid…..

Why i hate people ….

How can they just take an living being who is at no fault … unaware as what would happen to them….. and kill it for no reason in the name of GOD????? .  I don’t think any god ever wants ANY CREATURE to be sacrificed for them.

Wish i could do something about this rather than just blogging about it.

Avatar – Movie with a Soul :)

I loved it too…not for the 3 -D effects or for animation.. but something else.

I believe the story in itself is absolutely wonderful. We all go in search of God who cannot be seen but forget to tend to the God who is all around us. Our Iwa… our mother nature. It is indeed amazing how the story talks about cycle of life. About practicing the “respect every living being” principle.

We mined and created technology that our brains could imagine and interpret…. but ever wondered what would have happened had we  evolved with nature.???…. that is the kind of possibility that Pandora is imagined to have…. amazing…. if there is a Pandora and if i have re-birth…. i want to be born there…

The reason why i acclaim James Cameron is because gut to put it forward to the audience now…… i kinda have observed (might be wrong) ..that stories influence our scope of invention/discovery a lot. Long back someone had written about journey in Space and moon way before we built rockets…. and it happened…..

I just wonder if this story will lead us to respect nature at least now…. to discover the intrinsic/delicate network we are a part of and nurture it the way we should have done long back

Roaring for them!!!!

Yep…. it is the tigers …  the ad from Aircel kills me… its one of th saddest ads …

There are lots of ways we can help. For starters we can join the compaign , u can become a voluteer, donate clothes donate money, adapt them.

Hopefully , tomorrow we will be roaring for other animals too … not because they will be extinct but just so that we help them

Kudos to all those who started it all .

My lovely Brownyyyyyyy

Browny is  my dog. She is 4 years old (almost 5 now).

I had very bad dream today.  Had a still born in my dream, cried a lot…. dunno why i had that dream…. when i opened my eyes in the morning, had the hangover of the dream… just sat up and was looking down at my bed… then she came jumped on the bed, licked me all over and jumped around till i started laughing…. forgetting everything else…..

I had a wonderful day after that

i simply love her. Benzi i love u too.

TV 2.0

Well, It started with KBC and the rest is history…. then came innumerable reality shows and what not… but i have always had a special place for the discussion boards. Recently, i started noticing some shows on Suvarna and Zee Kannada,  “baduku idu kathe alla” and  ”budku jataka bandi” respectively. They are discussion boards where people with issues.. any issues put forward their story and the host tries to solve/counsel them…. Now these hosts are held in high esteem… so the guests at least pretend to  listen to them……. whether they really keep  up the promises after they leave the studio is another story…but what is important is that people now at least believe that they have help someplace….The number of house abuse stories are many and it looks like beating up ur lady is not a big deal at all …..  it’s really sad…

In the show hosted by Zee, ur identity is not revealed if u want… u know… today i saw another case…. it was about 3 kids, aged 14, 13,10 . The case is that, the father killed the mother and is in jail, serving his term, so the eldest one took up the responsibility of taking care of his siblings… and he is doing a very good job at this, sells flowers, has rented a house for the family, sends his brothers to school and the little ones pay back by getting real good scores at school.  When asked if any of them wanted to be adopted, there was absolute denial, there were scared of being separated and illtreated  by the foster parents.  The eldest had to be counselled that there are adults who really do take care of their children very well, and that kids are really loved, and that its ok to depend on someone…. but the kid insisted that they stay independent and took assurance from the show that they should not be troubled by any law or child welfare organizations about being adapted, However if there is help, financially, then the eldest one  would do both study and work. I was amazed at the maturity of that kid at such a young age, at the same time was sad that these little ones had to go through so much in life….

God knows how many more such stories yet to be told…. For the ones who want to help these kids, please connect at the given address, you can send money or get more info from  http://www.zeekannadatv.com/contactus.aspx.