Monday, March 8, 2010

There's a new sunrise tomorrow, so keep breathing!!!

Last night I watched Cast Away for the nth number of time. It indeed is one of my favourite movies. Every time I watch it I get to see something so new in the movie. So what did I observe last night which makes me write this post? :)

Well last night what caught my eye in the movie was the amazing story of Kelly (Helen Hunt) and Chuck (Tom Hanks) who are married and are madly in love with each other until Chuck meets an acident which leaves him stranded in an isolated uninhabited island for 4 years through which he learns to live like our predecessors did. His only ray of hope is a picture of Kelly that he carries with himself. The twist is when Chuck finally manages to escape the island on a hand made raft, he finds out that Kelly has married someone else and also has a kid. Further we get to know that Kelly had done all in her power to search for Chuck and also waited for him until long after his pseudo cremation in America was carried out with the belief that he is alive and would one day return but fate choose otherwise and she somewhere lost hope and had to move on with her life. In a very intense scene, it is shown that when they finally meet each other after this long gap, Kelly is tempted to return with Chuck despite her family responsibilities as a mother and a wife but very soon regains composure and decides otherwise. So that was briefly what happened between Kelly and Chuck in the movie.

What it made me think was who's fault was it? Kelly's or Chuck's? Actually none were at fault and this realisation came as a shocker to someone like me who refuses to believe in the concept of fate. I just sat back for a while and started thinking of all the things around me and I really dont know why but I was kinda convinced that yes we are powerless and the reign is not in our hands. We are just a part of a bigger plan and are playing our roles as the director wants us to.

I guess a lot of us could relate to situations like this. At our workplace, between friends, family, love life..... everywhere. We are powerless and must do what he seeks us to do? Recently while reading about Lord Shiva somewhere, I understood that there is no good or bad, beautiful or ugly, righteous or vicious in Shiva's opinion who (Shiva) refuses to react or be impressed with all of world's materialistic offerings. They are just there as a part of the world. This is the objective reality of the universe, while we live in a subjective reality. We perceive things around us and that becomes our world but for sure there is a mighty force above it which unites / connects / disassociates many of our subjective worlds to each other. That force is supreme and most forceful.

This thought I think has provided me with a new outlook (if I may use that term) or at least a new way of thinking and looking at things in life. Will end this post with Chuck's final comments in the movie.
"I decided to end my life and I hung a log with a rope to a tree, the branch broke and at that moment I realised that I was powerless. I could not control anything. I just had to keep breathing, living. So I kept breathing with the hope that tomorrow's sunrise would bring something new. But I was thankful to Kelly for being there with me on that island all this time"

Will watch Cast Away again after a few days - Who knows what you may come out with this time :) Till then, keep breathing coz theres a new sunrise tomorrow.... :)