Amazing Grace & Chuck

Just when you think that today's students know nothing but violence to get their voice heard, a refreshing movie comes by. No, I am not referring to lagey Raho Munnabhai, but I am referring to a little known movie called Amazing Grace & Chuck. Let me tell you its story..

In this small town of US, there lives a kid named chuck. He's the star pitcher of his baseball team, and his dad is a fighter pilot. One day, students from his school are taken to a trip of a nuclear missile silo..where chuck comes to know the killer power of nuclear missiles, when the scientist tells him " Imagine your sister dropping a spoon in the kitchen.If one of these missiles happens to land in a 30 mile radius, your sister will be vaporised before the spoon hits the ground"

This has a huge effect on chuck, who refuses to play in the little league match of his team. slowly, a major league baseball star listens to this, and teams up with chuck. Now chuck goes silent, vowing to talk only when all nuclear weapons are dismantled. subsequently, this catches on, and children all around the globe go silent.

Many twists and turns later, the movie has a happy ending, with both US & Russia dismantling their nukes, and the kids of the world talking again.

Now this could be a great work of fiction, but will it work in real life? I guess it will...a civil disobedience movement was launched by the father of our nation, that was absolutely non-violent..and yet it succeeded.

Violence always creates more violence. Hatred creates more hatred...

The world certainly needs neither of these. It needs love, compassion, non-violence...

Please remember, it is always easy to slap someone...but it is tougher to hold back..and even tougher to present your other cheek.

Whatever our civilization may be, whatever culture or religion we might belong to...we must remember that violence is not a reply to violence.

True salvation is always in forgiveness...in compassion...in peace...and in love.

Let us all make this world a better place to live in.

The author pays his homage to the countless victims of terrorist strikes across the world, on a day that has now been embossed in our memories as the worst day ever in the history of humankind. May all those souls rest in peace

I am back....

Hello good people...

I am back after a long time..and for all those of you guessing as to where I was, well I have a good news for you.

I have switched jobs..and today is my 3rd day in my new job..it feels good...the people are nice....but there's always the old friends left behind...

well life, in its own ways, does move forward...and i guess its better to flow in the current rather than put up a fight against it...

though there are times when a fight becomes necessary..and that is when the saying goes...

when the going gets tough, the tough get going!!

i'll end the post on this note..but from now on, it;ll be regular updating from me...

ciao

Scheduled blogging break....

Well I am making it sound technical, but that is what it's gonna be for some days. I will be off blogging, and also blog hopping for a good part of the coming month.

Although I'll be making my best efforts to return to blogging as fast as I can, it could still be some time.

The reasons for this break, well if I tell them now, what would I write when I am back? So keep guessing...

ciao

Speechless....

I had some other plans in my mind for this post, some other things I wanted to write...but this left me speechless...

What you resist, persists!

One of the bigger truths of life...that I heard for the first time in an Art-of-Living course, and have kept with me. It is the truth that the more you resist something/someone, the more it persists. The only way is to stop resisting it...it stops persisting. So simple...

Doesn't quite work though. As mortals, it is in human nature to keep thinking of the past, more so of events that were not good rather than the good ones, more of the sad events than the happy ones. We say that we have left our past behind, but we never truly do. There are those moments that keep coming back. Those people whom we can never forget. The betrayals that we can never get over. Life moves on, but do we allow it to?

Many would say that time is the biggest healer of all. I don;t think so. Time may heal the wounds, but what about the scars? Everytime you look at the scars, the pain comes back..and hits you the hardest when you least expect it to.

Which brings me back to the title of this post....stop looking at the scars, they say. There is no point in thinking of the hurt that is now past.

But isn't it our past that shapes our future? Don;t the mistakes of our past become lessons for the future?

Stop resisting...my mind says...

but alas, the heart is deaf...

and dumb, and blind....

it only feels....sorrow n pain....anger n hurt....

and on those lucky days...some happiness...some smiles....

it wants to see light..but alas ... it doesn;t wish to realize...

it is forever blind!!