89th Blog – Growing up, Things need to change, but in this way ?

“Let's we discuss and talk about growing up.” Growing up is one the most important and great part of life, it is and it will be always, the word “grow” needs a strong desire. It not relates with only human being but growth is truth for all living creatures. But in the case of human being as we grow up things change. Life was so much easier back then when scratches from the bike ride were the worst pain. When the elder's anger was an intimidate for us. The worst fight you had was about who would have remote control. When was fall in love with every second girl. When was dreaming of becoming so and so. Life was so much easier when goodbyes meant “I’ll see you tomorrow” and when no one was afraid to say “I love you”.

But, As we grow up things change. Or maybe we do. Fading away, drifting with the flow, losing ourselves. Forgetting childhood dreams and old promises. Getting lost in the whirlpool of fake priorities and artificial emotions. We do things because we are supposed to do them. Because someone said so. Because everyone does this and that. We forget who we are and what we want. We are too scared to follow our own dreams. Or maybe time does. Twenty four hours are not enough anymore. We want more time, so that we can earn more money. We have to run somewhere, but don't even aware about the destination. We want to conquer all world but don't know for whom. To fix this, to clear that, to fight, to argue, to prove ourselves right, to learn new stuff, to earn more money, to work more, to smile less. We wanted to do work and work and only work even when we know that we're not happy by doing this or that work. Even we want to do something that make our heart so prosperous that it was never before. But somehow we are trucked in the hard struggle of life.

We are living with an unknown hours of destroying our own desires. An unknown minutes of constant struggling. An unknown seconds of permanent stress. Deprived of the privilege to actually enjoy life. May be we have a luggage of sad memories, broken promises, lost friendships, missed opportunities. We know what it is like to believe, to hope, to dream. But we also know how it feels when every promise, every feeling, every dream would break into pieces. The pieces which even collected and put into the trunk of our experience are not the whole anymore. Day by day It is going tougher to be happy. We want more from life, we expect more from people. We lose more. We are not the same anymore. It is tougher to believe. Tougher to dream. Tougher to be that kid who wanted to fly high in the sky like an eagle, or a hawk, or just any bird. It is tougher to be a human being. We are now just behaved like a programmed devices, who was controlled by an unknown force. We stop throwing coins into the fountains. We don’t cross fingers anymore or make a wish when we blow out birthday candles. We don’t believe in the shooting stars either. Maybe because we lost hope that our deepest wishes would finally come true. We earn more and more, but we live less. we laugh less. We enjoy less. We forget to call people we care about. We pretend to be too busy. We don’t have time to tell people what they mean to us. We forget what it means to be real. To be human. To be yourself.

Change is good and I always believe in change and I accept the change with an open heart and as we grow up things need to be change, Besides, in this way. I wished change not to be happen in this way. I wish they didn’t.

Regards

Dhitendra

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88h Blog - “My Left Foot” - Its Christy Brown Movie

It happened sometime when you know any story, ever after you want to hear that story again and again. And I can confidently say that this is not only genuine just to listen some fairy tale again and again but this is truthful for every chore which we heartily wished for. When I talk about myself, I can say there 're a long list of movie that I want to watch again and again, without tones a single moment of deadening. While unfortunately I have had lost my all listed movies from my HDD, I don't know by mistakenly or due to some HDD malfunctioning. :-)

My left foot is one of those movie that remind me the power of willingness to overcome the human disability and bring a human being as victor. I loved to watch this movie anytime and anywhere. Yesterday while, watching “My left foot” after a long time I get attached with the story again. It's the true story of Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy (A human disease I also heard through this movie). He learned to paint and write with his only controllable limb – his left foot, not without going through the terrible feelings of failure and loneliness of doubt and isolation. There are many unscripted stories for such human triumph, but maybe due to respective reason's those all people was not able to present him/her self to the world. Besides, all those stories and achievements are an example for all human who have had everything to do anything.

Christy Brown, who was born in Dublin, in the year 1932, into a large poor slum family of twenty-two children (Only 13 survived) and was the ninth children of Mr. and Mrs. Brown family. He was born with cerebral palsy, and his entire body was in struggle against him all except the left foot, that only the part of his body he can control. Christy's body was both twisted and paralyzed. He was unable to communicate through recognizable speech. With his lips pulled over to one side, his eyes wobbling upward in their sockets, he spoke in a series of gutteral syllables that would be translated by his mother and siblings always. "My Left Foot" charts Christy's life from his earliest days until his greatest triumph.

The film opens with Christy Brown, being taken to a charity event, where he meets his handler, a nurse named Mary Carr. She begins reading his autobiography, and the movie melted down in flashback. He could not talk or walk but have support from his family, especially from his mother and siblings. One day when his mother got storke, he was only the person available at house, while watching his mother stroke, due to his disability he even was able to get attention of neighbors that turns to save his mother's life. The story paced up by the first time when he drew squiggle to the first word “Mother” he ever written. The story of Christy Brown is one of the great stories of human courage and determination. He belongs on the same list with Helen Keller.

Christy is played in the early scenes by Hugh O'Conor and from his teenage years onward by Daniel Day Lewis. The two actors fit together into one seamless performance of surprising beauty and strength. The impermanent of Daniel Day Lewis is outstanding and the only actor who's capable to make maintain the class performance. He is the epitome of a great actor, that could do any movie and turn it into a great movie.

There are too many movies that comes in this category and states the story of human courage and determination, besides "My Left Foot" is a great film for many reasons, but the most important is that it gives us such a complete picture of a man's life. It is not an inspirational movie, although it inspires. It is not a sympathetic movie, although it inspires sympathy. It is the story of a stubborn, difficult, blessed and gifted man who was dealt a bad hand, who played it brilliantly, and who left us some good books, some good paintings and the example of his courage. It must not have been easy to live life with those all disabilities. But of course that would have been a cruel exploitation of his weakness, and then, too, Christy was a genius at instilling guilt. He was died at the age of forty nine, in year 1981, eight years before the movie was made and released.

My Left Foot was splendid. Daniel Day-Lewis was riveting in the lead and Jim sheridan is best as director. A must watch movie.

Regards

Dhitendra 

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