Life is so crazy, life…

Life is so crazy, life is so crazy. Crazy ante cheppa raa…….

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Lecture of a lifetime

Randy Pausch, a 46-year-old top computer-science professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, has been diagnosed with 10 tumours in his liver and has just a few months of good health left. Last week, he said goodbye to his students and the Pittsburgh college with one last lecture called “How to Live Your Childhood Dreams“.

Those dreams range from the sublime (floating in zero gravity, writing an entry in the World Book Encyclopaedia,) to the ridiculous (playing in the national football league, being Captain Kirk, winning big stuffed animals at amusement parks, and being an imagineer at Disney).

But they were his dreams, and as he puts it, “I was there”. The Wall Street Journal has called it “the lecture of a lifetime”.

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# We can’t change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

# It’s all about the fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. Otherwise the fancy stuff won’t work.

# When you are screwing up and nobody’s saying anything to you any more, then it means they have given up.

# Life’s a gift. If you wait long enough, other people will show you their good side.

# In the face of adversity, don’t complain, just work harder. Your patience will eventually be rewarded.

# Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.

# Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren’t there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

Watch the lecture: Dying professor’s lecture of a lifetime

Taare Zameen Par and Oscar Wilde

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world – Oscar Wilde

A mixture of emotions and impressions are carried away from watching one of the more sensitive movies made in the last decade – Taare Zameen Par. My emotions at this moment are an interesting collage of a variety of images ranging from the wonderful memories of boarding school blues, the quintessential english teacher, the inspiring arts/extra curricular teacher. A strong emotional bonding with the home away from home, saying good bye to mom when she is leaving you with tears in her eyes, the friendships made help u last through testing times…..The struggle to fit into the archetype of a good boy – potrayed beautifully by the elder one whereas all you really wanted to be the carefree younger one.

But lets leave that aside and talk a bit about Oscar Wilde and his impressions of cynics. - ‘The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.’ Aamir Khan very aesthetically shows his creative talent by making a truly sensitive potrayal of a suffering child. Throw in a bit of Oscar Wilde and you have a class act very tough to follow. A fitting foundation for his criticism of the darkness potrayed in black by Mr. Bhansali.

He was always a class act but in his first directorial venture, he has taken his own lofty standards off into the hallowed territory. As a genuine fan of is creative talent, hats off.

Tell me a story!

Here’s what I would like you to do for me: Make me laugh. Make me cry. Show me my place in this world. Show me the world’s place in my life. Lift me out of my skin, and put me inside another’s, and show me how to live there. Show me places I have never been to. Carry me to the ends of time and space. Kaivalya

Give my demons names, give my fears a face, and show me how to confront them. Present before me heroes who will give me courage and hope. Demonstrate for me possibilities I have never thought of. Ease my sorrows, increase my joy. Teach me compassion. Entertain me, enchant me, enlighten me. Above all, tell me a story.

Tell me a story!

Kaivalya

kaivalya
n. (fr.) , isolation; absolute unity; perfect isolation , abstraction , detachment from all
other connections , detachment of the soul from matter or further
transmigrations , beatitude ; leading to eternal
happiness or emancipation.

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