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Five life lessons Dangal taught me
There is a certain pleasure in watching a movie first-day -first-show. All the more if the gamble pays off. Which it did, with Dangal. Here is what I learnt. Always difficult to write this without giving the story away. But in the spirit of the movie, lets strive to do the difficult.
1. FATHER’S LOVE IS NO LESS
A mother is for loving and nurturing; a father is for guidance and growth. A mother is unconditional in her heart and unconditional in her behaviour. A father is unconditional in his heart but has to be conditional in his behaviour. A mother could have it relatively easy, her love is the soft love. A father has it relatively difficult, his love is the tough love.
Handling Chronically Miserable People
Chronic misery is a disease. It takes a toll on the host and it takes a toll on everybody around the host.
Such people have a hard life for themselves. They find some or the other reason to become unhappy about. They become unhappy over things that do not warrant any unhappiness at all. They make a mountain out of a molehill. By the time, the issue is resolved they will find something else to be unhappy about. They thrive on misery. They also create challenges out of nothing so that they have something to be bothered about and something to overpower. As if becoming unhappy is their biggest love, their biggest hobby, their biggest pleasure.
Spirituality is not Self-Improvement
Of late, there is a rush of self-improvement movements calling themselves as spiritual movements. These movements focus on values like Non-violence, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Focus, Contentment, Detachment, Self-restraint, Silence, Love etc calling them as spiritual values. I myself teach most of them believing that I am teaching hardcore spirituality. But I have lately been wondering if it’s true.
To me, a spiritual value is something that by itself can cause self-realization or enlightenment without the assistance of any other value.
Four Insights From Bajirao Mastani
Just back from seeing Bajirao Mastani the second time. There is something about seeing a movie twice – you can appreciate the nuances better. First time you are busy feeling the movie, flowing with the movie, enjoying it. The second time around you have enough leeway to be able to observe it objectively, to be able to feel and at the same time connect the dots and learn things.
Barring the slapstick comedies, I endeavor to learn from all types of movies while I am savouring them. Got four insights while watching this one.
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