It all started with a post by Jui, my friend back in India. I think the post she put and the response I came up with is worth sharing beyond facebook and hence this post :-)
[p.s. the very fact that she tagged me in her post made me feel so grateful, that I cannot describe it in words]
Jui:
How much time should one give to explain to the mind that Hogwards and Zion is not true?
Madam Pomfrey does not exist nor will Carlisle come running to sort out your fragility.
Changing a few codes in the Matrix will not help find solace neither will few drops of Venom guarantee immortal strength and speed or Precious infinite time?
We are just what we are.. Muggles.
Amusing it is when the world of make-believe never goes away. But just upgrades from being envious by Calvin's Hobbes to Edward's mind reading.
Whether these alternate universes we hear and wish true behave as numbing anaesthetias to the truth of reality or crutches to walk through them is up to judgement.
But I still do wish them to be true. What do you guys think?
Prasad:
Muggles - but with dreams. Dreams to break away from this wired world; hoping that some day, we will be in control of the switches and will hack into a different reality.
Someday True Love will find us.
Someday we will fly so high that we can see the light.
That will be the day when every Phoenix will rise from ashes and every Matrix will tune in to our desire.
I think this inherent ability of ours to dream for a better world is the reason we keep drifting to the Leaky Cauldron, even though it's just for having another drink. And then, it never stops at just one drink, if you know what I mean - and that is when these drinks become anesthesia
I think we all want to believe in the magical and the super-cosmic, because it offers us faith. Faith which then picks us up every time we are down, faith which works as our crutches when we are hurt and faith which makes our efforts stronger & our actions bolder.
"Expecto Patronum" may not yet be working for us, but remembering it when dementors are around surely gives us strength and the belief that those few happy moments we cherish are STRONGER than any trouble we now face and worth every struggle we make.
[p.s. the very fact that she tagged me in her post made me feel so grateful, that I cannot describe it in words]
Jui:
How much time should one give to explain to the mind that Hogwards and Zion is not true?
Madam Pomfrey does not exist nor will Carlisle come running to sort out your fragility.
Changing a few codes in the Matrix will not help find solace neither will few drops of Venom guarantee immortal strength and speed or Precious infinite time?
We are just what we are.. Muggles.
Amusing it is when the world of make-believe never goes away. But just upgrades from being envious by Calvin's Hobbes to Edward's mind reading.
Whether these alternate universes we hear and wish true behave as numbing anaesthetias to the truth of reality or crutches to walk through them is up to judgement.
But I still do wish them to be true. What do you guys think?
Prasad:
Muggles - but with dreams. Dreams to break away from this wired world; hoping that some day, we will be in control of the switches and will hack into a different reality.
Someday True Love will find us.
Someday we will fly so high that we can see the light.
That will be the day when every Phoenix will rise from ashes and every Matrix will tune in to our desire.
I think this inherent ability of ours to dream for a better world is the reason we keep drifting to the Leaky Cauldron, even though it's just for having another drink. And then, it never stops at just one drink, if you know what I mean - and that is when these drinks become anesthesia
I think we all want to believe in the magical and the super-cosmic, because it offers us faith. Faith which then picks us up every time we are down, faith which works as our crutches when we are hurt and faith which makes our efforts stronger & our actions bolder.
"Expecto Patronum" may not yet be working for us, but remembering it when dementors are around surely gives us strength and the belief that those few happy moments we cherish are STRONGER than any trouble we now face and worth every struggle we make.
