Day before yesterday I happened to see the movie "Tangled", again.. I wonder how many times I have watched this movie... But everytime I watch it, it makes me feel better.. Its not that its a fairy tale (which I am always fond of). There are quite a lot of fairy tales, which doesn't give this "feeling" like this movie does.. Even though all the fairy tales are about happy endings and feel good songs... this one does stand out for me.. why ? Because it tells me that even losing the magic is at times a good thing..you still have "hope".
Much earlier when the movie DDLJ came and became such a huge hit, (even though I did watch it at that time alone ;) ) I wondered why would such a romantic movie become such a big hit with people ? The only answer I thought was that it gave them hope...Hope that, even if the probability of its success is very less, one can still dream of a blissful and happy ending to their own love story...No one is gonna dance and sing and woo any one in real life.. but to get hold of their dulhania by convincing their parents.. thats something they can still hope for.. I don't think people would follow the movies and try to imitate it in real life (except for some hard core psychopaths like the one in Colorado).
Its again similar to the reason why people throng the temples during important festivals, especially the ones during Shivarathri and Vaikunda ekadesi..( for the record, I am not an atheist , but I dont believe in visiting temples during the festivities with so much crowd.. I prefer seeing Him or rather His form at leisure..and peace) People say that if you pass through the sorkavaasal during the vaikunda ekadesi, you are entitled for paarkadal moksham.. We do not have proof of that.. There is no one who has come back and confirmed that they did attain it... but then why do people do it?..it eventually leads them to the hope of having a peaceful death and afterlife.. and if they believe in rebirth, hope of being born again as a better being.
When people have bad times and times when they cannot just decide, they either turn to God or God's men (most of them are bad men) or even astrologers for a glimmer of hope that things will eventually be Ok for them. There is always a unknown factor in everything we do. This unknown factor at times decide the result(s) of our actions. When some of them are ready to handle this unknown factor without anyone's help, most of them need some sort of support to let them know that it would be OK for them... even if it meant praying to the supreme entity, who they think has the power to turn the unknown factor in their favor... or in some cases, to pray to the same supreme entity to give them enough strength to handle the result, whatever it may be... and then they Hope for a better result..
Hope may not be a better idea most of the time, because all we do is hope and then we do not do the obvious, and then we blame it on the unknown factor and pacify ourselves.. But most of the times, hope is what we need. Hope that we will be able to do better.
A couple of quotes
“Hope is a waking dream.” - Aristotle
"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow. " - ORISON SWETT MARDEN, He Can Who Thinks He Can
Even though hope is a good thing, just be little careful of what you hope for :D
Much earlier when the movie DDLJ came and became such a huge hit, (even though I did watch it at that time alone ;) ) I wondered why would such a romantic movie become such a big hit with people ? The only answer I thought was that it gave them hope...Hope that, even if the probability of its success is very less, one can still dream of a blissful and happy ending to their own love story...No one is gonna dance and sing and woo any one in real life.. but to get hold of their dulhania by convincing their parents.. thats something they can still hope for.. I don't think people would follow the movies and try to imitate it in real life (except for some hard core psychopaths like the one in Colorado).
Its again similar to the reason why people throng the temples during important festivals, especially the ones during Shivarathri and Vaikunda ekadesi..( for the record, I am not an atheist , but I dont believe in visiting temples during the festivities with so much crowd.. I prefer seeing Him or rather His form at leisure..and peace) People say that if you pass through the sorkavaasal during the vaikunda ekadesi, you are entitled for paarkadal moksham.. We do not have proof of that.. There is no one who has come back and confirmed that they did attain it... but then why do people do it?..it eventually leads them to the hope of having a peaceful death and afterlife.. and if they believe in rebirth, hope of being born again as a better being.
When people have bad times and times when they cannot just decide, they either turn to God or God's men (most of them are bad men) or even astrologers for a glimmer of hope that things will eventually be Ok for them. There is always a unknown factor in everything we do. This unknown factor at times decide the result(s) of our actions. When some of them are ready to handle this unknown factor without anyone's help, most of them need some sort of support to let them know that it would be OK for them... even if it meant praying to the supreme entity, who they think has the power to turn the unknown factor in their favor... or in some cases, to pray to the same supreme entity to give them enough strength to handle the result, whatever it may be... and then they Hope for a better result..
Hope may not be a better idea most of the time, because all we do is hope and then we do not do the obvious, and then we blame it on the unknown factor and pacify ourselves.. But most of the times, hope is what we need. Hope that we will be able to do better.
A couple of quotes
“Hope is a waking dream.” - Aristotle
"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow. " - ORISON SWETT MARDEN, He Can Who Thinks He Can
Even though hope is a good thing, just be little careful of what you hope for :D
Have you forgotten the best ever hope dialogue ? Shawshank redemption.
ReplyDeleteHope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. It's got no use on the inside. You'd better get used to that idea.
And in the reply
" Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. I will be hoping that this letter finds you, and finds you well. Your friend, Andy Dufresne."
Wow...how did I miss that!!..Thanks for putting it down...
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