Why should we own and embrace a dream?

A Dream gives us the reason to wake up and witness another new day

A Dream makes us thrive on new possibilities and new hopes

A Dream blinds us from the ponders of everyday mediocrity

A Dream instills a sense of valiance to face our innermost fears along the way

A Dream forges battles with our inner egos and lets us lead a humble life

A Dream allows us to make peace within ourselves

A Dream wields the strength to bear humiliation and turmoil 

A Dream clears our vision to gasp upon the wonders woven around us

A Dream forfeits our being from ignorance and hatred

A Dream shields us from vain desires to showcase our potential

A Dream helps us to see the light inside others even when they fail to see it

A Dream turns our loneliness into a transcending sense of solitude

A Dream helps us get to the far reaches of wisdom and understanding we had ever known

A Dream never stops to make us rise after every fall

A Dream presents as the opportunity to give our best in our lifetime

A Dream makes us realize that success and failure are mere apparitions

A Dream keeps us occupied enough to build unfathomable worlds inside our minds and hearts

A Dream composes a reverbrating harmony for our lives with the instruments of love, happiness and peace

A Dream gives us the glimpse into a future that we had helped shape

And suddenly everything seems possible if only we have and embrace a dream

Such a dream at its state of attainment can't help but possibly even change our world

Never quit from living your dreams for then it will become indistinguishable from the dreams of a slumberer.

Reflecting upon my Pandora's Box

Recently I had the opportunity to spend time with my nieces, especially with the little one who is about 7 years old, at present. Every time I spend time talking to her, I have a strong feeling that I'm learning things that are more advanced to my knowledge, somethings that I even fail to understand despite a grown up. Its not her little fantasy stories of the dolls that she plays with, its how much she articulates and builds information blocks so that she hopes that she could bridge the communication barrier between us, making me understand that her fantasies can makes sense to me. 

Sometimes it is very funny to listen to her speaking, but most of the times I reflect upon my own childhood memories of playing with my action figures that I used to store inside my shoe box, which my dad loves calling it as my 'Pandora's Box' every time I open it to play during holidays or on summer vacations. For quite a lot of years, I quench the thirst of my imaginations by playing with them. But that was then, later on, I ditched my Pandora's Box for video game consoles.

But right now, in between a confined software job and as a sci-fi movie fan, often I'd get caught within my imaginary worlds while questioning various possibilities of science and technology that makes sense in the real world, also in a hope that my imaginations can one day shape into original ideas that can contribute my few cents in building a better world.

I feel that I have (re)created a Pandora's Box, a place inside me, through which I'm trying to run away into my imaginations in a hope I can one day bridge that gap of 'insanity' and try to make sense to the real world, with ideas I could create from my imaginations, just like my little niece surprises me with her fantasies which leaves me with a realization of some sort, every single time I meet her.         

On the Web of Life

For quite a while I've been wanting to share this, my few cents, to the plethora of wisdom found in the internet. Of the millions of questions that sparks from our synapses since childhood, we often are interested in finding the answers to the ones that eventually get to define our adulthood that in turn, sadly, make us realize that there is no 'pot of gold' at the end of the burrows. Yet, I believe, we should never stop asking questions or finding answers about our existences  even if we think it doesn't make any sense, because, the day we stop becoming curious about life, will be the day life quits becoming curious upon us.

To cut right into my message, I've used to travel to my workplace by railways, so, everyday i'll get to be 'doped' by gasping at the morning glory of sunrise, while basking in the breeze watching the palette of green shrubs, bushes and trees, all along the way, peacefully seated near the window inside the speeding train. So, recently I've been kinda wondering, how does something so far away from me (the sunrise) and so unrelated to me (the tree) can offer motivation that allows me to feel a sense of solitude beyond my imaginations? How it is so connected to my life, though for a brief while in the day, yet, I don't get to physically relate it in my 'real' life, like I talk with and relate to my friends and family who, too, have offered such motivations in my life.

There are many such things in nature (like lakes, mountains, flowers, etc.) that invisibly have added so much meaning to our 'real' world living. It makes me wonder that if something standing apart and practically being 'lifeless', has the ability to offer us, such transcending levels of motivation, in our everyday lives, why can't we as 'living' entities, could make a difference in somebody's life, no matter how unrelated that someone might be to us, as we are all related as Humans being made/evolved from a common source. It is my logical implication, of how much connected we are, already, in making each others lives better by small and simple acts of random kindness.    

These tiny unnoticed stimulants of nature will be so unnoticed until they remain just like 'spots' in space and time, but as we travel along and make connections with these spots we won't make huge differences, but slowly and surely a design appears, a destiny emerges and in time, our life's meaning is manifested into a perfectly woven web of life.

Transcendental Quotes

Hi there, 
If you've reached this post, I assume you thirst for words that would get you on high and make your day. Well, I have no ideas to disappoint you, so I've put together some really good hollywood movie quotes, which may not necessarily be the usual cool or motivational type, but the ones which I thought could possibly transcend your mind to even a much better state, I've added images that might match to the quotes too!

Nuff said, just go on with the quotes and share your comments (only if it made you feel any better)

1. Forrest Gump (1994):

[Forrest's narrative]
"My Mama always told me that miracles happen every day. Some people don't think so, but they do."

[Forrest's narrative]
"I don't know if Momma was right, I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it's both. Maybe both is happening at the same time."

2. Shawshank Redemption(1994):

[In Andy's letter to Red]
"...Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."

[Red's narrative]
"I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright."

[Red's narrative]
"I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope."

3. Independence Day(1996):

[President Whitmore's address]
"Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world, and you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. Mankind. That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom. Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution… but from annihilation. We're fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice: We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!"

4. The Matrix(1999):

[Morpheus to Neo]
"What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain."

5. Gladiator(2000):

[Maximus to soldiers]
 "...Brothers, what we do in life, echoes in eternity."

6. Bruce Almighty(2003):

[God to Bruce Nolan]
"Parting your soup is not a miracle, Bruce, it's a magic trick. A single mom who's working two jobs, and still finds time to take her kid to soccer practice, that's a miracle. A teenager who says no to drugs and yes to an education, that's a miracle. People want Me to do everything for them, but what they don't realize is, they have the power. You want to see a miracle, son? Be the miracle."

7. The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King(2003):

[Aragorn to his army]
"I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me! A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the age of Men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand! Men of the West!"

8. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004):

[Dumbledore to Hogwarts students]
“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, when one only remembers to turn on the light.”

9. Spiderman 2(2004):

[Aunt May to Peter Parker]
"Everybody loves a hero. People line up for them, cheer them, scream their names. And years later, they'll tell how they stood in the rain for hours just to get a glimpse of the one who taught them how to hold on a second longer. I believe there's a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams."

10. I, Robot(2004):

[Dr.Lanning's recording]
"Ever since the first computers, there have always been ghosts in the machine. Random segments of code that have grouped together to form unexpected protocols. Unanticipated, these free radicals engender questions of free will, creativity, and even the nature of what we might call the soul. Why is it that when some robots are left in darkness, they will seek out the light? Why is it that when robots are stored in an empty space, they will group together, rather than stand alone? How do we explain this behavior? Random segments of code? Or is it something more? When does a perceptual schematic become consciousness? When does a difference engine become the search for truth? When does a personality simulation become the bitter mote... of a soul?"

11. Batman Begins(2005):

[Ra's Al Ghul to Bruce]
"..training is nothing! will is everything! The will to act."

[Batman to Rachel Dawes]
"It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me."

12. War of the Worlds(2005):

[Narration]
"From the moment the invaders arrived, breathed our air, ate and drank, they were doomed. They were undone, destroyed, after all of man's weapons and devices had failed, by the tiniest creatures that God in his wisdom put upon this earth. By the toll of a billion deaths, man had earned his immunity, his right to survive among this planet's infinite organisms. And that right is ours against all challenges. For neither do men live nor die in vain."

 

13. V for Vendetta(2006):

[V to Mr.Creedy]
"Beneath this mask, there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask, there is an idea, and ideas are bulletproof."

14. The Pursuit of Happyness(2006):

[Mr.Garner's narrative]
"It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking: How did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue. And maybe we can actually never have it, no matter what. How did he know that?"

[Mr.Garner to his son]
"Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they want to tell you you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period. All right?"

15. Rocky Balboa(2006):

[Rocky Balboa to his Son]
"The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!"

16. The Astronaut Farmer(2007):

[Charles Farmer to the jury]
"Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don’t have our dreams, we have nothing."

17. 300(2007):

[King Leonidas to Xerxes]
"The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant, that few stood against many and, before this battle is over, that even a god-king can bleed."

18. Spiderman 3(2007):

[Peter's narrative]
"Whatever comes our way... whatever battle is raging inside us, we always have a choice. My friend Harry taught me that. He chose to be the best of himself. It’s the choices that make us what we are... and we can always choose to do what's right."

19. I am Legend(2007):

[Dr.Robert Neville to Anna] 
He had this idea. It was kind of a virologist idea. He believed that you could cure racism and hate... literally cure it, by injecting music and love into people's lives. When he was scheduled to perform at a peace rally, a gunman came to his house and shot him down. Two days later he walked out on that stage and sang. When they asked him why - He said, "The people who are trying to make this world worse are not taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness."

20. The Dark Knight(2008):

[Alfred to Bruce Wayne]
"They'll hate you for it, but that's the point of Batman. He can be the outcast. He can make the choice that no one else can make — the right choice."

[Batman to Jim Gordon]
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. I can do those things, because I'm not a hero, I killed those people, that's what I can be. I'm whatever Gotham needs me to be. Call it in."

 

[Batman to Jim Gordon]
"You'll hunt me. You'll condemn me, set the dogs on me. Because that's what needs to happen. Because sometimes... the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded."

[Jim Gordon to his son]
"Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So, we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight."

21. Star Trek(2009):

[Captain Pike to Kirk]
"Your father was captain of a starship for twelve minutes. He saved 800 lives, including yours. I dare you to do better."

22. Terminator Salvation(2009):

[John Connor's recording]
"What is it that makes us human? It's not something you can program. You can't put it into a chip. It's the strength of the human heart. The difference between us and machines. Skynet's global network remains strong, but we will not quit, until all of it's destroyed. This is John Connor. There is no fate but what we make."

23. Transformers - Revenge of the Fallen (2009):

[Optimus Prime's narrative]
"Our races, united by a history long forgotten and a future we shall face together. I am Optimus Prime, and I send this message so that our past will always be remembered. For in those memories, we live on."

24. Avatar(2009):

[Jake Sully to Navi people]
"The Sky People have sent us a message: that they can take whatever they want. That no one can stop them. Well, we will send them a message: that they cannot take whatever they want! And that this...this is our land!"

25. Inception(2010):

[Dominic Cobb to Saito]
"What's the most resilient parasite? A bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm?
An idea. Resilient, highly contagious. Once an idea's taken hold in the brain it's almost impossible to eradicate."

26. Captain America - The First Avenger(2011):

[Steve Rogers to James 'Bucky' Barnes]
"...there are men laying down their lives and I've got no right to do any less than them. This isn't about me"

27. The Avengers(2012):

[Nick Fury to Steve Rogers and Tony Stark]
"There was an idea to bring together a group of remarkable people, so when we needed them, they could fight the battles that we never could."

28. The Dark Knight Rises(2012):

[Jim Gordon at Bruce Wayne's funeral]
"I see a beautiful city.... and a brilliant people, rising from this abyss..... I see the lives, for which I lay down my life - peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy..... I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence..... It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known......"

29. Man of Steel(2013):

[Lois Lane to Perry White]
"How do you find someone who has spent a lifetime covering his tracks?  For some, he was a guardian angel.  To others, a ghost who never quite fit in."

[Jonathan Kent to Junior Clarke Kent]
"You are not just anyone. One day, you're going to have to make a choice. You have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be. Whoever that man is, good character or bad, it's going to change the world."

[Jor-El to Kal-El/Superman]
"You will give the people an ideal to strive towards. They will race behind you, they will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they  will join you in the sun. In time, you will help them accomplish wonders."

"Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.

The ones who see things differently. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.They change things. They push the human race forward.
 

Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."

 

Finally we are but nature's drones ?

I have asked myself, What would it feel to be out of this reality dimensions? , to be out of the plane of spatial existence? Does a nature-defying wonderland, awaits at the end of the rabbit hole? or will it be a vortex made of void and glittering cosmic energy patterns, keeping us in suspended motion neither falling into a  state of what's known or unknown?

 One of Hollywood's best visionary directors, Terrance Malick, feels wonderful about sunrise and sunset and hence he calls them as 'Magic Hours', I completely agree with him as I, especially in the recent years, have felt the impact of these 'Magic Hours' playing an instrumental role in my view of life and that the tiny little wonders that nature has got in its stores for us. But, also, there are these other times, discouraging times, when you have to lay down your morals in your encounters with life's unexpected concocts, just to keep yourself or your loved once at safer shores of survival.

Its just that I wanted to transcend all this philosophies and phenomenas, well, Why Not?, logically speaking, do we have any idea how we came about inside a physical body? or do we know where we would certainly go after this physical life ends? or what if this I/We doesn't matter all and we are, and all of this mankind's legacy stuff, is  just an 'episode' of a cosmic reality show? (like the movie Truman Show). Further, I do not believe in truth-seeking missions, because of the simple fact that 'I'm limited', many ways. I need something radically altering, I need the answers for questions that myself or even entire mankind had never asked, maybe a revelation on what we need to see or know in order to become complete and fulfilled of our existence as a sentient kind.

After ruminating on all this cheddar of thoughts, still I'm here sitting before my computer and writing the stuff I think about, at this time. Honestly, until we get to have a first hand experience of what's beyond, I would assume we are wound up within the web of life, a prisoner inside this viscious circle of causes and effects, a mere drone of nature.

The Morality Problem

In recent years, I've been really confused about the definitions that exists for many things in our lives, especially the definitions for good and bad.

I believe the day when we really can discern between good and bad, could possibly be the day when we can boast on the far reaches of our civilization as a 'sapient' species, until then our 'mental evolution' is never more than a far cry. 

Thefreedictionary.com defines morality as follows,

1. The quality of being in accord with standards of right or good conduct.

2. A system of ideas of right and wrong conduct
In the above definitions what does the words good conduct/wrong conduct refer to? A category of mere actions? or an allegory of assumptions and possibilities, defined by law & order system? If so, we know that none beyond the human kind, could've defined the structures and strata of the law-order paradigm.

Now here is the problem, which I've decided to call as the 'morality problem'. Through this problem, I believe the people who are bestowed with strong morals are least pushed to the point of desperation where their morals collapse into ashes and they are left without anything but a sense of savagery. The lives of these civilized silver spoon diners may have been filled with profound despair of sorts, but never can it be leveled with lives of those who live in a little place called 'Earth' and fight everyday for just enough food to keep their heart pumping and lungs breathing. 

I can't be a savior who can erase the differences between people, but i'm just trying to imply that its just a thin line of flesh and blood between what comes out as words/actions/expressions and what exists within. If the morality 'codes' of everyone of us, in the world, are exposed, then we all will realize that no matter how different we are, at any point in time, almost all of us exists with similar levels of adherence towards the instinctive patterns engineered by nature, ever since we are around here.  

So why all these self-righteous squeals when everything is already made loud and clear?


           

Vision One

Visions are portals that bridges here, our confined existence in real world, and there, our enlightened imaginations about our human lives, and sometimes the entire mankind in general, which is an utopia awaiting to be attained.

Why we don't allow these imaginations collide with our sober reality and Why we keep out the bliss of simple human feelings from overwhelming this cumbersome chasm of deplorable routines, is yet a mystery unresolved.

With a leap of faith to share thoughts on some of life's most important needs/mysteries/questions, I usher my humble conceptions of my experiences and realizations in a hope that it might reach or make a difference to somebody in this world