But Life ain’t a movie

Often times I do my work at home with the television in the background. May it be doing laundry or dishes or cleaning the house, I have the T.V. on with some program running in the background. Not that I can follow the program or watching anything in particular, it is more to have company. When I am doing my work and turn to the T.V. once in a while, I see some colors, images and some music (I cannot hear or follow what is going on when I am washing dishes or vacuuming the floors) to soothe me and keep me going. So having said that, I was watching a couple of movies over the weekend – one was English and one was Hindi.

As I was watching those movies my attention went on to its story. The stories were good. In one, father loves his son very much and the son dies in an accident and the father overcomes the grief, the agony and pain of losing his son and finally adopts another child. It was an emotional piece. The movie lasted two and a half hours. In that span of time, the movie showed me how the parents loved their child, the daily routines, how they taught their child, how he grew up, how he died in the accident and how the parents dealt with the pain and finally overcame it. There was a problem and the problem was solved. Well, all of that in that span.

When I go through any situation, good or bad, happy or painful, I am the one to live through every minute of it. They say that time flies fast when you are happy but what about when you are in pain? What about when you are unhappy and feel terrible about what is happening? How do you deal with that? Even then, a day has 24 hours, 1,440 minutes or 86,400 seconds and it all moves in the same speed, no matter whether one is happy or sad. No matter, in what state of mind one is in, they all have to go through every second of the day, day after day until one can overcome that pain or joy in some way or the other.

One, who is going through the pain, often wonders what the outcome may be at the end. (One, who is happy, just hopes that the happiness continues for ever and ever, until the end of the universe) They hope that everything turns out to be OK in the end. But do they know about the results after three hours or do they have to wait for a long time with faith to know the results. One has to wait it out to know what will happen in the end. If life was just like the movies, one would know everything at the end of three hours but life ain’t a movie!