‘Hope is a good thing,
and good things never die’: The Shawshank
Redemption.
I had never come
around to watch ‘The Shawshank Redemption’. Of all the wonderful movies, I have
ever seen, I never understood why I never sat down earnestly to watch this one.
And now that I have watched it, I think I’ll be mesmerized for a long, long
time.
There are always
movies that would hit you, leave a dent irreparable, motivated to conquer
something in this world. However, have you actually wondered, how many movies
you see got you moved, ready to take on the world. Be the change you have
always wanted to be or more importantly, changed something you have always
pledged yourself to do.
But then life isn’t
just about changes, right? Had changes been so easy wouldn’t we be the perfect
copies of each other, successful in the quanta’s of success as we define it,
perfect as we measure it?
Change is a very
elaborate process. It doesn’t come with a ‘thirty minute guarantee’ like our
pizzas or a fifteen day trail pack like the fairness creams. It grows into us
slowly as we pick traits from the environment, it takes cues from the
experience and we travel the road we had taken. It might come from the
incidents that move you, small deeds and actions that might bring a whole lot
of perspective in our life.
Irrespective of how
our life shapes itself or how many changes we think it requires, we always
possess something is a source of our happiness; something that we call our own-
our own dreams, our own people, our own anything. These might be perceptible or
be a part of subtle background, but they are ours, they are our own hopes.
We might have the
perfect person in our life or the correct set of friends as we desire. At the
risk of sounding clichéd, I might call it love. Has it ever occurred to you,
that you forget how strong the bond is? We tend to move ahead of it and we
believe that love has happily deserted us.
But do we actually
stop, stand our ground and think for a while. Besieged by problems, troubled by
the mention of problems, we give up on those very things that define. We believe
that it wasn’t meant to be and we should look for other ways that might contain
us.
We believe that love
has given up on us, but has it? Have we given up on love? We have given up on
something rather more important, that is – HOPE!
For others like me, we
find happiness in our dreams. In the darkest hours of night, I am sure my
dreams leave a smile on my face. Because, somewhere deep inside them, I find
what I have always looked for- my reasons to reach the state of blessitude.
But the worst hours
are the ones that come after that, the mornings. It is the time when we decide
to give up on those very reasons that pierce through our heart.
We for no reason,
presume that things can’t be the way we have always wanted. We suck ourselves
into the vicious circle of karma again, the monotony of the day, too afraid to
step out and venture in the world of our contentment- the world of our hope!
We kill our dreams,
the way we killed our love, our people (metaphorically!), because we weren’t
strong enough to believe in ourselves. We talk about standing to people, facing
the world with held high but instead, we are afraid to face ourselves. How many
of us would look in the mirror and proudly say that whatever we involve
ourselves in, we are proud of it? I speak for myself, I cannot.
And if we cannot, we
exhibit cowardice. We are the ones who are too afraid to do what they know
might be right. The ones who would refuse to follow their heart because their
hope couldn’t find strength in its belief.
Life is simple,
uncluttered and awarding. All it requires is us to have strength and to be
truthful to ourselves. All it requires us is to have hope.
All it requires from
you, is to believe in your belief’s which you know are right. Believe in your
happiness. For once, try not to mix your brain and your heart. If you
know what your heart has always wanted, take the plunge and go for it. Your
mind would follow on its own.
If you are one of
those readers, who are heartbroken or miss the person you have always loved-
wait for him, talk to him or tell him how you feel. If the love of your life is
the one in front of you, build your life around him. Have hope in your love and
be proud of the fact that you have someone you can mould your life around.
If you are like me,
who believes in a dream but are not just motivated enough to go for it, then
think of the mirror which you’ll face in twenty years from now. Would you be
able to look in the mirror and answer the question with confidence when you are
asked that have you’ve achieved everything you’d aspired for?
Don’t let your hopes
crumble because hopes give direction to your life. Hope’s lead you to your
heart’s strongest feelings, your loved ones or the happiness that you have
always wished for. If you have set a goal for yourself, respect it, think
about it and move forward to achieve it.
And if it’s right,
you’ll never be lost.
And if you are never
lost, maybe you’ll be one step closer to perfection.
