Taare Zameen Par

"Taare Zameen Par" begins with the world seen through the eyes of a young boy. The problems that the boy has in school and consequently at home result from a misunderstanding which resembles a hungry monster that keeps feeding on more and bigger obstacles and growing. When the young hero Ishaan claims that letters are dancing which is why he cannot read the words, the teacher mistakes that for a bad attitude and reacts with anger. So do the parents at home, especially the father who wants to prepare his son for the rat race in the big bad adult world. When problems reach the critical mass level, the parents decide to send Ishaan to a boarding school to "straighten him up". This move to the boarding school is another huge morsel for the already big and scary monster. But things get scarier and gloomier as the separation from family is a traumatic event in Ishaan's misunderstood world. Things go from bad to worse until a substitute art teacher enters or rather storms into the lives of the young boys. Nothing is the same from that point on. The monster turns out not to be that scary after all and it has a name – dyslexia. It is just like when a child's imagination runs wild and sees "monsters" in a dark room at night, but when the light is switched on those scary creatures are nothing more than toys and other familiar objects scattered around. Nikumbh Sir does exactly that: he switches on the light in the minds of the children including Ishaan and illuminates all the beauty, creativity and potential that they have. At one point Nikumbh makes a remark to a fellow teacher that we humans are "away from inner beauty". The teacher's sensitivity, wisdom, attentive and caring attitude brings out not only that inner beauty, but also through individual dedicated work with Ishaan he succeeds in taming the monster of dyslexia. But there is more: Nikumbh Sir manages to convince the teachers at the boarding school as well as Ishaan's parents that there is another way than just stiff and sometimes crippling rules. There is another way than preparing for the rat race. After all, the world is full of other ways.

Darsheel Safary delivers an absolutely stellar performance as Ishaan. We feel his emotions, we see his world. The animation that appears in parts of the movie serves as an insightful depiction of how a dyslexic child sees things, how misunderstood "dancing" letters turn into scary looking spiders. He is definitely a phenomenal actor in the making.

Aamir Khan deserves to be put on the pedestal for his genuine greatness as an actor, director, producer, as a human being. He deserves all the laurels for the courage to take on a social issue like dyslexia and raise awareness about it, for promoting an understanding of this problem, for making a statement about the education system, about parenting and for taking us viewers on a magical journey back to childhood. All this is done in a non-castigating, colorful and caring manner that makes "Taare Zameen Par" a delight to the eyes and to the soul. The greatness of the star is visible in this magnificent film through his work and not in the number of frames in which he appeared. This release is particularly refreshing as in recent time there has been more than enough mass mediocrity sold to the audience as entertainment. "Taare Zameen Par" is an illustrious example of how a film can be entertaining, with profound messages and filled with emotions. As a viewer and fan of movies I would like to see more, much more from Aamir Khan Productions.

Love - Its Beautiful

How do you define love?

Some say it's mysterious, magical, complex, difficult, imaginary, thought-provoking, inspirational, intuitional, joyous, immeasurable, ecstasy, and undefinable. Perhaps.
"Love is a feeling directed at someone which acknowledges their goodness."
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
"To describe love is very difficult, for the same reason that words cannot fully describe the flavor of an orange. You have to taste the fruit to know its flavor. So with love."
Love itself is a universal experience. Yet, every individual occurrence - while perhaps bound by a common thread - seems absolutely unique. Love is what love is! To everyone it expresses itself differently.
Love is the answer to "all" questions!
It is important to stand in Love, not fall into it.
Love is waking up to find the object of your affection in the dream you were having asleep on your shoulder.
Could it be that Love is a story that can never be fully expressed?
Love is a bond or connection between two people that results in trust, intimacy, and an interdependence that enhances both partners.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.
When you tell someone something bad about yourself and you're scared they won't Love you anymore. But then you get surprised because not only do they still Love you, they Love you even more.
Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.
Logic says everything in this world has a cause and an effect. True Love is the only feeling which is its own cause and its own effect. It is something illogical and yet above all logic. I Love her because I Love her, and I Love her so I Love her.
Love is comforting someone in need of Love and having them know that somebody cares.
Love is looking past imperfections in your partner and seeing the beautiful person inside. True love seeks the happiness and well being of your partner. Love expresses itself in the mutual respect you demonstrate to your partner.
Love must be experienced. Its meaning is infinite and can never be totally defined.
The opposite of Love is fear. Think about it.
There is no fear in Love; but perfect love casts out fear.
God is love.
Love is loving someone without expecting anything in return; no judgments, no restrictions; no limitations; no expectations!
True Love is the nature of bliss.
Love is expressed when you are being someone who loves someone for who they are, not who you think they should be.
Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.
Teach only Love for that is what you are.
Love is a decision.
If you want Love, you must first Love. Love begets Love. You cannot deliver from an empty wagon. You must first learn to Love yourself before you can give Love.
"If you Loved me, you would. . ." Not! Love is not manipulative. It must never be used to get others to do what you want. When you Love someone you never ask them to sacrifice a part of themselves in the name of Love. This form of manipulation contaminates our Love for another.
Can't Buy Me Love!
Love is to like with a great intensity.
True love has a foundation of integrity, respect, faith and trust. Love is the force that brings about unity and harmony.
Although love is at the root of our basic nature, Love for another human being must be cultivated. It takes time for Love to mature.
The road to self-discovery is paved with Love.
Love has no meaning other than the meaning "we" give it.
Perhaps. . . Love just Is. While in its allness and in its nothingness, all we need to do is simply let it Be.
To demonstrate Love. . . say, "I Love you" - outloud - at least once each day to someone you love. There is magic in these three little words. Saying "I love you" is the most beautiful gift you can give to your partner. These words are the most treasured a person can hear.

What is Good Health???

There are many ideas, and opinions, on what constitutes good health, or what a meaningfully healthy lifestyle feels like or looks like. It could be said that health should be a natural condition, or at least a consistent state of well being. But what is this natural condition? There are some people who accept pain and discomfort in the body as a necessary part of living. This pain is considered to be a motivator, something for the body to fight against. They accept this condition because they observe that there are so many people with health complaints and so few people free of problems. It is even taken for granted today that dying of a degenerative disease is acceptable if the person had led a 'good life'.

Is good health some sort of perfection? In homeopathy good health is said to manifest when a person's "vital force" is being expressed by perfect functioning of all parts of the body and by a sense of general well being. This holistic approach to health states that nature, of which we are an important part, has a constant tendency toward what is best for it. This vital force of nature reaches its masterpiece in the human body and the human consciousness.

If we wanted this 'ultimate achievement' of good health our goal would be to reach old age and maturity without aches and pains, to be well-balanced and spared emotional traumas and stress-related illnesses.

It seems apparent to me that for millions of years people lived in some sort of harmony with the natural forces of nature. Good health was some sort of consistent state of being. Otherwise, how would we be here? If we were always in poor health for millions of years I cannot see how we would have survived. A long time ago the dinosaurs disappeared suddenly. Today species of plants and animals are becoming extinct at an accelerating rate. Throughout history at least some of us must have maintained an instinctive natural knowledge about how to live healthily enough to allow our species to continue. How we are doing today is a mute question. Are we going to continue to survive or is our current acceptance of sub-marginal health a sign of something?

Perhaps it is time to take a look at what this instinctive natural knowledge of good health might look like in our modern culture. I feel that it is not that much different than it has been for millions of years. This 'knowledge' probably includes simple things like sunshine, pure water, sleeping when the sun sets, relying on wholesome foods from nature, having daily alone time in the outdoors and living physically active lives in communities of loving supportive people.

Facts About Smoking

Most smokers sincerely want to quit. They know cigarettes threaten their health, set a bad example for their children, annoy their acquaintances and cost an inordinate amount of money.

Nobody can force a smoker to quit. It's something each person has to decide for himself/herself, and will require a personal commitment by the smoker. What kind of smoker are you? What do you get out of smoking? What does it do for you? It is important to identify what you use smoking for and what kind of satisfaction you feel that you are getting from smoking.

Many smokers use the cigarette as a kind of crutch in moments of stress or discomfort, and on occasion it may work; the cigarette is sometimes used as a tranquilizer. But the heavy smoker, the person who tries to handle severe personal problems by smoking heavily all day long, is apt to discover that cigarettes do not help him/her deal with his/her problems effectively.

When it comes to quitting, this kind of smoker may find it easy to stop when everything is going well, but may be tempted to start again in a time of crisis. Physical exertion, eating, drinking, or social activity in moderation may serve as useful substitutes for cigarettes, even in times of tension. The choice of a substitute depends on what will achieve the same effects without having any appreciable risk.

Once a smoker understands his/her own smoking behavior, he will be able to cope more successfully and select the best quitting approaches for himself/herself and the type of life-style he leads.

Because smoking is a form of addiction, 80 percent of smoker who quit usually experience some withdrawal symptoms.These may include headache, light-headedness, nausea, diarrhea, and chest pains. Psychological symptoms, such as anxiety, short-term depression, and inability to concentrate, may also appear. The main psychological symptom is increased irritability. People become so irritable, in fact, that they say they feel "like killing somebody." Yet there is no evidence that quitting smoking leads to physical violence.

Some people seem to lose all their energy and drive, wanting only to sleep. Others react in exactly the opposite way, becoming so over energized they can't find enough activity to burn off their excess energy.The symptoms may be intense for two or three days, but within 10 to 14 days after quitting, most subside. The truth is that after people quit smoking, they have more energy, they generally will need less sleep, and feel better about themselves.

Quitting smoking not only extends the ex-smoker's life, but adds new happiness and meaning to one's current life. Most smokers state that immediately after they quit smoking, they start noticing dramatic differences in their overall health and vitality.

Quitting is beneficial at any age, no matter how long a person has been smoking. The mortality ratio of ex-smoker decreases after quitting. If the patient quits before a serious disease has developed, his/her body may eventually be able to restore itself almost completely.

Selfishness

Have you ever tested your blood? If not try now ! You can see RBC and WBC but there is something called SBC!!! can't find in your report? Its Selfish Blood Corpusels...

Yeah it is more than a cancer more than Aids.... We are selfish at some point of time ! Cos our post, our talent , our admiration by others itself creates this undead cells streaming in to our blood.

Selfishness is an art ! At this stage no one worries about anybody nor think of others they are worried about themselves there money, bankbalance, children etc etc ... no one is wrorried about his colleagues friends nor the person who served him a lot when he or she is in difficulty.... You might get everything in life but if you paint yourself in the form of selfishness you tend to lose even good people around you...

Features of Selfishness:
Argument
Lies for small things
Comparison
Anger
Tend to Act smart
Pointing out Mistakes on somebody for nothing ( I mean Kiddish)

The most thing of Selfishness is that the thing we don't get in time if our colleagues or someone get !we stop prasing them rather than we avoid them... and its a dooms day for them.For instance if we don't have electricity in our house! we come out and see if other house has and we think saying "Each house has UPS, he earning like anything" In that moment we don't think we have to call electricity board and find what the problem is...

In life if you can't reach the foot of God! Try to reach his toe atleast!!

Life and its Realities

When I look back,after a couple of years,
I have completed many of my responsibilities..
Many more of them are becoming a reality.
But when I ask myself, whether they were my dreams
the answer is that, no, it wasn't my dreams.
I had lot of dreams, both professional and personal.
None has come true.
I am enjoying the life around me.
But still, something is missing.
I don't know how to make them come true.
Responsibilities, I know how to tackle them.
But my dreams, it really haunts me.
Otherwise my life is happy.
Achieved many things,more than what I dreamt of, in many cases.
but not my true dreams, which has been holding me back for quite some time.

My Thoughts

Life in deserts is sandy,
Life in caves is lonely,
Life in ocean is salty,
Life in stars is resplendent,
Life in car is modern,
Life in mountains is exhilarating,
Life in Sun is brilliant,
Life in forests is mystical,
Life in shadows is enigmatic,
Life in battlefield is belligerent,
Life in pearls is exotic,
Life in office is monotonous,
Life in sky is breezy,
Life in submarine is voluptuous,
Life in trees is mischievous.

Time To Leave

A couple of evenings ago,I was thinking how we’d react if we were told we had just a few months to live. I would try and do everything I liked in that time, and surround myself with my family. I thought that I’d be inclined to save people I cared for the pain of watching me die—whatever that took. Ironically and unexpectedly, shortly after this thought, I searched on the internet and watched François Ozon’s remarkable film Time to Leave.
The film begins with its protagonist, Romain, discovering that he is terminally ill with cancer, and deciding not to bother with treatment. He does not tell his friends or family of his condition. He is rude to his sister, and drives her to tears. He tells his lover, Sasha, that he does not love him, and drives him to move out of their house. This is a transparent lie, but though we see it, Sasha doesn’t. He confides to his grandmother—marvellously played by Jeanne Moreau—because she is like him, and “will die soon.” But even in this winding up, complications ensue.
Melvil Poupaud plays Romain, and is magnificent – understated, yet effortlessly expressive. But it is Ozon’s storytelling that makes this film memorable. It is spare, focussing only on the essential, and revealing its essence. There is not a frame out of place in this heartbreaking film that ends, like Romain, too soon and in great beauty.

BEAUTY IS A FEELING

Beauty… How do you define it? Can one really define it ? It’s a Difficult job notwithstanding the fact that we keep on experiencing it in this meandering life of ours.

For one, beauty is something which overwhelms our senses and prevails upon us to believe that life is not all that bad.

Every aspect of life is beautiful, yet it depends upon the eyes of the beholder. Thus very true is the saying that ‘Beauty lies in the eyes of beholder’

Beauty, though predominantly experienced through our eyes, is not limited to sight only. Beauty can also reach us through our ears, the olfactory or our taste buds.

Good music is beautiful. It takes our mind to a different world. Sometimes the music is so very much pervasive that our hearts begin to dance in its rhythmn. The music tends to take us to some new world then. We all surely have had such experiences.

There is beauty in good fragrances. No wonder man has always been after perfumes, scents and the like. Fragrances conjure up images in our minds , or tend to affect the way we look or perceive things. Good fragrances produce peace in our minds- isn’t that beautiful.

Good food is definitely beautiful. Everyone is a different person after a good meal. The very thought of a good meal produces zest in our otherwise boring routine life.

Apart from above, there is beauty in human creation and human nature. Human creation. because it has added so much to this world with promise of doing much more. Human nature because it’s filled with inquisition , optimism and compassion.

There’s beauty in humour. There’s beauty in sorrow. There’s beauty in our triumphs because they make us feel second to none. There’s a beauty in our problems as well - because they give us an opportunity to explore ourselves and the world around us.

Beauty envelops us in an unceasing abundance. Every facet of life is filled with beauty.

Beauty is a feeling- create it, spread and above all just try experiencing it.

Happiness

True happiness could be acquired by surrendering material desires, self-deceit, fear, prejudice, anger, doubt and disbelief.Happiness can not be born out of pleasures of material life......like more cars, alcohol, noisiest celebrations, late-night parties, louder ostentatious weddings, and above all, "No caring and sharing".Happiness comes from absolute peace, joy, contentment, and from absence of inner conflicts.Happiness is definitely connected to Divine aspects, like Prayers, Meditation, and "GIVING WITHOUT EXPECTING ANY BENEFIT IN RETURN".Think Good and Do good.

She Walks in Beauty Like the Night

She walks in beauty,like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies,
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meets in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more,one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress
Or softly lightens o'er her face,
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure,how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek and over that brow
So soft,so calm,yet eloquent,
The smiles that win,the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent.

Joy

And joy is everywhere;
It is in the earth's green covering of grass;
In the blue serenity of of the sky;
In the reckless exuberance of spring;
In the severe abstinence of gray winter;
In the living flesh that animates our bodily frame;
In the perfect poise of the human
figure,noble and upright;
In living;
In the exercise of all our powers;
In the acquisition of knowledge;
In fighting evils...
Joy is there everywhere.

Life is

Life is an opportunity,benefit from it.
Life is beauty,admire it.
Life is a dream,realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.

Don't Quit

When things go wrong as they sometimes will;
When the road you are trudging seems all uphill;
When the funds are low,and the debts are high
And you want to smile,but have no sigh;
When care is pressing you down a bit-
Rest if you must,but do not quit.

Success is failure turned inside out;
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt;
And you can never tell how close you are
It may be near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight when you are hardest hit-
It's when things go wrong that you must not quit.

It's the Journey that's Important

Life, sometimes so wearying
Is worth its weight in gold
The experience of travelling
Lends a wisdom that is old
Beyond our 'living memory'
A softly spoken prayer:
"Its the journey that's important,
Not the getting there!"

Ins and outs and ups and downs
Life's road meanders aimlessly?
Or so it seems,but somehow
Leads us where we need to be,
And being simply human
we often question and compare....
"Is the journey so important
Or the getting there?"

And thus it's always been
That question pondered down the ages
By simple men with simple ways
To wise and ancient sages....
How sweet then,quietly knowing
Reaching destination fair:
"It's the journey that's important,
Not the getting there!"

Peace begins with me

Peace begins with me
Starting over and breaking free.

Peace begins with me
Opening my eyes and beginning to see.

Peace begins with me
Curious about what I am going to be.

Peace begins with me
Knowing no longer I have to flee.

Peace begins with me
Having self dignity.

Peace begins with me
Taking on more responsibility.

Peace begins with me
Because peace is being happy.

And this is why peace begins with me!