Rekindling the flame

"I can almost see it
That dream I am dreaming
But there's a voice inside my head saying
"You'll never reach it"

Every step I'm taking
Every move I make feels
Lost with no direction
My faith is shaking

But I gotta keep trying
Gotta keep my head held high

There's always gonna be another mountain
I'm always gonna wanna make it move
Always gonna be a uphill battle
Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose

Ain't about how fast I get there
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb....."

and like that the song continues....


Thats a song sung by Miley Cyrus for her movie Hannah Montanna, A good movie for teen girls of 12-14. But not the song, it is great song, not because of its music & the lyrics but the passion invested in the song by once so innocent Miley. Now this article here is not to sing the tutelage of Miley Cyrus or the grandiose of her character Hannah Montanna, but to derive the emotion of the song.


The song has a very important message engraved in it, it talks about the battle of life..... 


"Life is tough, thats a given,when you stand up, you gonna be shoved back down, when you are down, you are gonna be stepped on. You will fall down, you will stumble and you will get pushed and land square on our face. But every time you fall down, you get back on your feet, you get up as fast as you can and as many times as it requires. Remember this, success has been and continues to be defined as getting up one more time that you have been knocked down."


What I said might sound very motivating and might reel you up a bit but I am not here to preach what every motivational speaker in the world does, its their job not mine. My job is, to reflect on how this song describes the very things said above. It compares the life we live to that of a mountaineer and symbolizes the journey of life as THE CLIMB!!


Carrying this symbolism into the moot point of this article I would like to bring out a given fact, every mountain has a peak! If our life is a climb and the mountain is our ambition/goal then there has to be a peak in it. This peak is the same peak that we find people so often referring to. Everyone talks of it as a great thing, a much desired thing, as if it was the best thing that happened to them. Do we wait to ponder the flipside of it? 


Consider this quote for a moment...


"We've been comfortable aspiring to championship. I don't know how comfortable we are as champions."  
-Alan Shore, Boston Legal.


We work our whole life to attain an ulterior goal, and climb the climb with our best efforts to reach it. But what happens when we do reach it? Funny question one can say. Why? We celebrate!! That I will give you, we do celebrate for once, but what do we do when the hubbub subsides and the party is broken? 


I don't know about you but when I attained something that I had been working on for a long time, and when it eventually got over, I was at a complete loss, rather than feeling rejoiced by the success, I was hounded by the emptiness that was created. I found asking myself, what now? You see its hard to rekindle the flame and form a burning desire to attain something with the same intensity and fervor. Without the fire from within you won't do it. So this begs the question how to rekindle the flame?How?
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More to come later. 

Dream Girl

I was watching this movie the other day, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, a good movie I must say, not exactly a family friendly mix, with a fair share of trash talking and nudity, but that doesn't take away from it the fact that it was a good story with commendable acting not only from both the leads, Robert Downey Jr. and Michelle Monaghan, but also Val Kilmer who plays an excellent supporting role of Gay Perry. I admit I had to mention his character, because he played it so well, he does make an excellent Gay man, no offence. 

 So I was watching the movie and there came a point in it when Harry Lockhart (Robert Jr.) realizes that his Dream Girl (Harmony Faith Lane- Michelle) wasn't the Girl he thought her to be. He had this delusion that she was this amazing girl with the perfect life, with the perfect character, only she had gone wrong in this wicked world and need to be forgiven for her wrongs. Which he did most of the time, he overlooked all her wrongs and tried to make amends when she came off on a wrong foot, but he still refused to see the truth. He was the Dumb-ass who believed in it only because that is what she said she would be...An Amazing girl. 

His rude awakening comes after all the chasing and praising when he finally gets to be with her. She is not who she said she would be...she is not the amazing girl, his dream girl. 

Now he wasn't the perfect judge of character, infact not even a decent one, or else he would have foreseen who he was dealing with. But then this begs the question as to who is?  We all like to fancy ourselves as master readers, who can assay a person in no time, but are we really? Even if we are that good, and we do realize who is who and whats what...love is blind, what can be done about it? 

Not everyone faces this problem, and not many who face it, own up to it, after all there is no personal glory in admitting it. But for just a moment, sit back and contemplate, what would you do if in his place? What if your Dream Girl isn't who you thought she would be?

-Sad But True

What happened to macho movie star?

I saw a ridiculous film called The Expendables some time back. Such movies are saved, if they're saved at all, by the quality of the action scenes (which was not very high in this case) and the charisma of their stars. The stars of The Expendables were mainly fifty- and sixty-somethings, their faces warped and twisted by time, steroids, and an overdose of the good life. Sylvester Stallone, Mickey Rourke, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dolph Lundgren, Jet Li (who's just short of 50, and doesn't have a warped and twisted face, but looks more like a banker than an action hero).
And I asked myself: what happened to the macho Hollywood star? Which actors today could carry a franchise like Rocky or Terminator? The last one was probably Vin Diesel, though he never became a megastar in the Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis category. This summer's blockbusters told a depressing tale. The star of two major franchises is a five foot six inch former coke addict called Robert Downey Junior. Now he's a fine actor, one of the best of his generation, and therefore manages to fit the roles of Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes, but macho he is not. The youngest of the stars of The Expendables is Jason Statham, who did a series called The Transporter. But he's a Brit. We had the Aussie Russell Crowe playing Robin Hood. Crowe had his macho moment in Gladiator a decade ago, and is now too fat and too old for the job, though, like Mickey Rourke and Robert Downey Junior, he's a good enough actor to seem almost right for it.
The top action star right now is Matt Damon thanks to the Bourne series; Matt Damon, remember, the pretty boy of Good Will Hunting, the cerebral, pacifist, left-winger. No wonder the producers of the biggest budget action flick of this summer, The Prince of Persia, felt the sensitive, brooding Jake Gyllenhaal could make the action hero cut. Next year, we'll have Ryan Reynolds playing the Green Lantern, which is going to be like Ben Affleck playing Daredevil.
Speaking of pretty boys in action films, one mustn't forget Orlando Bloom in Pirates of the Caribbean, alongside a fey Johny Depp. Keira Knightley was probably the most macho thing in those films. It's not surprising the makers of Salt, a role written for a male star, felt able to substitute him with Angelina Jolie in the spy thriller.
(While mourning the death of the macho star, I should add parenthetically that I much prefer the Bourne trilogy to the Rambo movies).