Thursday, June 26, 2008

of conflitcs..

what is right and what is wrong? our society dictates the rules of righteousness, our parents preach them, our religions decide them. and we follow. many times, we face a thin border between the dos and donts. maybe its just temptations, impulse or the supposed evil part of our mind that forces us to cross the line..v justify it later on grounds of circumstances in life.. we pacify ourselves and sometimes give a damn about the comments of the society. life's too short, i live the way i want. no one can tell me otherwise types..yet in some rare moments, we wonder, was that wrong? am i really doing the right thing? should i change? can i change? what if not? its always there..this tiny shade of doubt, guilt..burried under thousand other wants and desires..how many of us address it and face it, this jury within ourselves? is this a type of courage too? i know there is not a living soul that has walked this planet with absolutely no blemishes or acts of the wrong. as we age, so does this burden ..keeps gaining weight.The falsities that every man projects to the world yet fearing to face the facts within him..This makes me appreciate how blissful and peaceful infancy is , v can even say its the purest period of ones life..

Sunday, June 15, 2008

A nowhere quest

I came across this article while surfing randomly.
http://is.gd/xHW
Its really a fascinating read..like real version of reel movies. But is this really necessary??
Human curiosity always drives him to lurk into any mystery that catches his fancy. and it does result in outstanding discoveries..But this is a bit far-fetched considering the wastage of time and money involved in the project. I wonder if they have thought what they are to do when they finally produce some erratic version of dinosaur..maybe a real Jurassic Park??
To know that this effort when used in productive causes like finding a cure for AIDS perhaps, may help millions of people and yet waste it to recreate a past that is best to be undisturbed makes us clearly see the flaw in human nature- a senseless creature with a 6th sense .

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

A book beyond imaginations - Eragon series

It has been a month since I read the book Eragon by chance but I am still under the spell of Christopher Paolini's enchanting magic cast through his 2 books. I can hardly wait for Brisingr to be released now. So, what is it about this book that has made countless like myself mad about it? Firstly,I would say it is the setting- dragons, riders, elves, drawfs, middle earth land types, sorcerers and the list goes on. On the first read one may find it a stereotypical Lord of the Rings copy but it is definitely not so. The Next beautiful aspect of this book is the writing. The words take the readers right into mystical dragon worlds till they would argue its authencity against every logical minded person dismissing the idea as childish and frivolous. For someone who is addicted to the fantasy world where nothing is impossible, I was so immersed in the story that I sat up debating with some of my irritatingly logical and sensible friends on how the concept is real, more real than their idea of real worlds. The characters especially the protagonist has more of flaws which makes it more realistic and interesting. I loved the parts where Eragon struggles with his futile attempts to master sword fighting and the lives of the ant explained by his mentor. We can discover a lot more than fiction if we read carefully through the lines and the language used to describe simple settings like a night sky is just brilliant. Moreover this sort of mythical stories invokes the hidden sense of imagination and absurd in all alike, helps us visualise and appreciate impossible things in a perfectly logical way. We develop the bent of mind to explore the sleeping Neverlands within us and what more than a beautiful story to cheer us in this mundane world of numbers and logic?

ps: please do not see the movie that is made out of this priceless piece of art. It not only rips the life of the book but also successfully shatters the wondrous fascination and destroys the beauty of the characters. It is absolutely a curse on the theme of magic.