Life, as a Movie.

What do movies teach us? Do they even teach us anything? We have our study holidays, and the only sane part apart from studying (which is seldom done) is watching movies. Today, I end up watching three movies in a row.

The first movie being ‘Barfi’, a beautiful movie which portrays with utter simplicity how love is transcendental, you do not have to be a good looking or even sane for that matter, to fall in love, because as you know it just happens.

The second movie was ‘Unstoppable’, a movie which wanders throughout the plot basically centralised on the idea that a carefree fat guy who fails to take control over his physique and a train, ends up putting in turmoil and unimaginable danger the lives of thousands.

The third movie was ‘Jab Tak Hai Jaan’, again a beautiful movie (most would disagree here) but it indeed was a good movie. The way the person bets his life on love, disregarding everything in life, seeking death. But God or the Universe (for atheists) had other plans which ultimately wind up bringing him together with the lady he adored and showered love upon.

Somehow I can relate the order and stories of these movies to my life, is what I was wondering when I started typing this blog post down.  Also, as the clock strikes 01:59 on the strategically placed clock on my laptop, I think I’m turning nocturnal day by day, or rather night by night because darkness is the only time I think. Coming back to the point, is our life so simple that three movies can reveal the mystery that is longed by most of us?

Barfi, tells me how happy I was back then, when “Love, was it?” was being posted on this blog.

Unstoppable, tells me how miserable and off track I was in the past few months, contemplating life in a nutshell.

Jab Tak Hai Jaan, tells me how things could still be better and there is a future where I can actually dance in a field of Sunflowers with a person (hopefully of the opposite sex).

But sometimes I wonder whether all my calculations and predictions are futile, all this time I have spent thinking on how life is supposed to be lived, but it is nowhere near how I thought it would be. This post, the three movies could make no sense at all in my life. This could be an utter waste of time. Perhaps, these three movies tell something, perhaps not. But, trying to find out what the Universe or God is trying to tell us, is like unveiling the mystery, revealing the suspense, spoiling the eagerness and passion throughout the movie just for a glimpse in the future. We all have that one friend, who spoils the climax of every movie you are about to watch, by watching it already right? This time, God or the Universe is that friend; they already know your future and are trying their best to convey it to you. You can either listen to them, or you can turn deaf ears and live the thrill, because the eagerness is always the reward in a movie. In this case, that movie is called LIFE.

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Internet, Money and Similar Obsessions

When I look at the statistics of the page views my blog gets everyday, I feel compelled to write something for those two-three faithful friends/strangers who make it a point to check my blog every single day without fail. It is true, there has not been a single day with zero page views, because some tom, dick or harry always stumbles on my blog one way or the other. So, for the unsung heroes who make my blog get hits, I dedicate this blog post.

I started blogging in the early 2010 period, when blogging was introduced to my fairly decent brain that had started questioning the ramifications of the worldly life. Since then, my life has gone quite a few changes. A newbie to social networking, and totally addicted as well as attached to the internet, I have done it all. Befriending a total stranger on social networking sites, falling in virtual love with a person I did not know physically existed, downloading stupid screen savers only to find a Trojan Horse virus corrupt all my data, trying to earn money from the internet, and stuff that could not be spoken here for obvious reasons and to avoid controversies. You name it, I have done it. Now, when I look back on all those years I have wasted on the internet only to realize, instead of talking to that cute girl from Hawaii on webcam, if I had skimmed through pages of Wikipedia, would I not be a lot wiser than I am right now? Probably, yes, but would I be a better person than I'm right now? Probably not. 

Talking to people over the internet, being kind, humble, truthful I gained quite a few friends from London, Brazil and New York. I talk to them, till this very day and they are equally psyched as I am, or I think they are. The point is, internet has played a major role in my life. First it was, only "project/school work" related, then on expanding my horizon, it came on to social networking, blog, earning money(which I failed at after trying hopelessly), then a few months of virtual silence(no blogs, no statuses, no updates), then again here I am, because internet has been hard wired into our way of life and living without it is simply unimaginable. 

This blog post was no where in sight, until a very good friend of mine recommended that I write whatever that comes to my mind, and here I'm blabbering about stuff that I think about every other day. If I actually start writing all the possible permutations and combinations of the thoughts that run through my brain every single minute of the day, it would be a really long post and I wonder if people would be interested to read that. The typical turmoil of an Engineer is they wish to earn while they work because most of us are spendthrifts or rather are forced to be because of the food we get in the Hostel Mess. Some succumb to betting, some gamble, while some just go on spending till they realize they are bankrupt, and then there's bitcoin. The latest new virtual currency that gives geeks like us hope that they can earn or "mine" money more quickly. Bitcoin is a gamble too, but with the steady increase of currency, one bitcoin is equivalent to a whooping 180USD or roughly 6000rupees. With these kind of figures doing the rounds, I wish I had an extra GPU or an FPGA/ASIC board to mine more bit coins. If only, I had more money this would have been possible. Probably, making money as a student is just not my piece of cake. I'll rather stick to blogging and hope that one fine day money finds its way towards me. And yeah, for the record, I shall try to blog atleast every other day, because the life of an Engineer is much more complicated than you think(and is fun to read at the same time)

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