Little Stars

Recently I watched this Hindi movie about a Dyslexic child who is unable to read and grasp alphabets and struggles to find a common ground between his imagination and real world. His world is full of fishes, birds, color and fantasy. He doesn't know what 3x9 is, neither does he understand how they world is the way it is. His parents decide to send him to boarding school owing to his miserable progress with studies and that's where he loses himself. His self esteem is hurt and he starts to wonder why they world is not like him or what is so wrong with him! An art teacher from his school helps him find his lost self and catch up with the world.

The story touched a lot of hearts since it was a story of every one of us in some way. We have all faced peer pressure, parental pressure and pressures from your inner self to be like every one is. We are wronged by everybody at every step if we do not do things the way the world does it. But honestly, who decides what's the right way of doing things? Just because a few thousand people do things in a certain manner doesn't mean they are right always. Whatever happened to creative people then? I had read somewhere, winners don't do different things. They do things differently! So why judge them for the path they chose?

It's disappointing to even imagine what world we are going to give our future generation. We whined about the competition and pressure in our own times and that has multiplied in hundred from our times today. It's criminal to load kids with our expectations and make them live a dream that we wanted to live someday. It is hard to live their life for we get bogged down by small little tensions of our own lives.

Has anybody ever thought how a dream or imagination can transport you to a completely different world? Rhonda Byrnes has written in her book 'The Secret' that visualizing things in your mind have the potential of making them a reality. So if you imagine yourself driving that awesome Ferrari and you really believe in it, you never know you might just live your dream some day. It's a beautiful world out there. All you need to do is THINKING. Lot of people feel thinking is waste of time and only people who are incapable to do anything else can sit and think! But that's not true. We all have the ability to think and dream and no right to wrong or mock at other people's dreams.

Here is an exercise for all who are reading. It takes only 20 mins of your time. You can do it individually or in a group as well. Just find the remotest corners in open where you'd have no one around you. Sit there for 15 mins and do not talk to anyone for that time. No phone calls no text messaging. Be true to yourself for those 15 minutes. Try to observe things around you for 15 mins and try to identify yourself with anything that is around you at that time. Then sit and analyze what is similar between you and the object you compared yourself to. It could be air, trees, a toy or anything around you. You would know and realize so many things about yourself that you wouldn't otherwise have the time to think about. Those 15mins of tranquility will bring in so much light into your life that you cannot imagine. Let your imagination play its game; let your mind think what it wants to think and then feel the magic. Those 15 mins are a revelation and you would thank yourself for giving yourself that much time. Do it!

We have really stopped living our lives we should. It's strange we do not have time for 5 mins for ourselves. When you do the above said exercise you'd realize that it's tough for you to not talk to anyone for 15 mins, its tough to stand your own silence for that time. But once you start to enjoy all that you'd feel like you are meditating. It's like trance. Why deprive yourself from even few minutes of pleasure in life? Anyway coming back to children, its time we sit and think of making our lives easier to be able to bring in a new breed that will walk this planet. Children are really shouting out for help and we do not realize.

Sad but true - We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. ~ Stacia Tauscher