A..E..I..O...U

Im not an authority on emotional intelligence or anything to do about it yet. But I believe when we learn from life, its best shared in the right spirit. Let me see, how best can I put this across from the little that I know?

Yes, let's take it from the basics of language... English for instance....We cannot do without the vowels ....

A, E, I, O, U .... we need one or more of them in every word to form a word.

And in life we just cannot do without Attitude, Emotional Intelligence, Optimism and Understanding. These are the vowels, the a e i o u of  life, if I could put it that way. And all of these in the right measure, makes us near perfect!

And if we remember what our Holy Books tell us, life doesn't happen just once. The very letters that make the word LIFE remind us that Life Is For Ever. I strongly believe that we may make our exit from this world some day or the other, but we live through our children, in others' memories, in what we live for, what we die for and what we care for the most...

Im shaking up myself for a nice bit of change as Im absolutely in love with life.... Frankly with over three decades on this planet, its about time I got the abc's of my life straight. And I definitely know the letters that will come in handy are A E I O U.. Check it out!

Boothnath, Ria and me

I was watching this very sweet Sunday kid's movie with Ria - Boothnath. We were seeing it together for the third time.... Its about a grandpa ghost, Amitabh Bachan, trying to save his home which used to be the centre of happiness till his son walked out, angry at his adamant father. The grandpa ghost tries to scare a little boy who comes to live there with his mother but eventually befriends the little rascal who alone could see Boothnath, the spirit that had been haunting that house for the past decade or so. Well, talking to spirits is not quite acceptable in normal parlance and time would have it that Boothnath had to leave... Now the real son had to do the last rites for Boothnath's salvation... But that son was angry to the core as his father would not forgive him and he could never forgive his father!

Now now, let me get to the end of it all than run the entire movie here...

There is this very deep statement that Sharukh Khan, who enacts the role of the little rascal's dad, says to Boothnath's son who is waiting to sell the bunglow and erase all trace of his now dead father... Kabhi kabhi kuch kaam adhoora reh jaata hai... Sometimes some things remain incomplete, he says leaving it to us to understand what he leaves unsaid and his pleading eyes convey... that all of us would, sooner or later, repent when we have not done what we really could....

It was this profusely loaded statement that brings the son back to the pooja arranged for his father's atma's mukti or salvation by people who was in no way related to them other than the genuine bonding between the little boy and the grandpa ghost. As the music in that part of the movie expressed, alas its all too late! Neither could the son see his now dead dad nor could the father console the now grieving and repenting son...A tearful prayer eventually frees the soul...

Just look at that emotion...anger... Passed down from father to son....A peircing emotion that kept two souls away from each other not just for a few years... but forever!

Each time I look back from this movie, it pricks me hard. I had this emotion playing villain in my life several times. What I silenlty learnt, as the tears ran down my cheek and I saw my Ria sobbing just like me, is that children feel in the absolute same way as we do. Why, we were once children, weren't we? We never liked to be shouted at. Then what right do we have to shout at them, leave alone boss them, demand from them?

Im sure you will agree with me that we all live just once. As a child, a mother, a sister, a brother, a friend, a lover, a winner, a loser, a nobody or just somebody. But we live.... Oops! Am I confusing?