What I WANT vs What I NEED...

Week-ends in Chennai for me are 'movie days'... finish off all the week's downloads in one and half days... gone are the hyderabadi week-ends full of shoppings and outings... better i not mention that part again...

This week-end 'Confessions of a Shopaholic' happened to be in my list... wanted to watch that for a while, considering myself as a shopaholic.... well, the movie was terrible.... didnt stand out... The only one point it stressed 'are we really make decisions between 'what we really want' and 'what we really need'...

There are a hundred or thousand things in the world we desire on... human desires are never ending... Put me in mall with lot of cash in my card or purse... i can empty them in hours... 'cos there are a lot of things i want... thatz just human... But if i ask myself 'do i really need all these?'... may be not... We tend to spend on and on... every commercial in the TV tempt as to throw money on stuff which are not really necessary.... The only solution to this is nothing other than 'self control'... which many like me lack....

This week-end I had a difficult situation at the Mobile Store... I wanted one particular model of phone... that was in mind for a long time... but what i really needed according to my two brothers who were on phone with all the time was another one... Usually none can change my mind easily, even its difficult for me... but i did it.... gave in to desire, and bought the one which i really needed... i'm happy (next day only) so do my brothers... I watched the movie after this episode in the Store, I felt happy, I managed to make the right choice...

The world around is so tempting... it's upto us with our on choices not to fall into all the temptations... Every time u r in a dilemma, ask urself 'do i really need this?'... All you have to make is a right choice between what you really want and what you really need....

Who can hear a Who!!!

Being a small kid years back, I had an imagination when playing with small small insects and creatures... Looking down at the tiny world of ants and flies, I had wondered many a times whether there will be someone or something; some creature who consider we humans as some tiny creature... I imagined some field of a fig fat creature upon whose field we humans were like dusts, invisible to the whole ‘big’ world... The imagination of the kid then was not based on any “Horton Hears a Who!” which was a 1954 book by Dr. Seuss... I never read that book when I was small...

Growing up, learning about the universe and the galaxies around, the childish imagination were replaced by scientific facts...

Later finding the book above and later, watching the movie last day... I found it was not a silly childish imagination... ‘it’s everybody’s’...

The book/movie tells the story of story of Horton the Elephant who, on the fifteenth of May in the Jungle of Nool, hears a small speck of dust talking to him. It turns out the speck of dust is actually a tiny planet, home to a city called "Whoville", inhabited by microscopic-sized inhabitants known as Whos... The Whos ask Horton (who, though he cannot see them, is able to hear them quite well) to protect them from harm, to which Horton happily obliges telling "a person's a person, no matter how small"... It tells Horton’s journey across the woods to save the tiny world from his neighbors, who refuse to believe that anything could survive on the speck...

Though a very short film, it has enough stuff for entertainment... with the voice of Jim Carrey along with some cool animation, the movie is funny altogether...

So next time when you look down upon any ‘small world’... we are not the mightiest.... we are just miniatures in the whole universe... who knows there are mighty ones somewhere in the galaxy....