An Inconvenient Truth

“You look at that river gently flowing by. You notice the leaves rustling with the wind. You hear the birds; you hear the tree frogs. In the distance you hear a cow. You feel the grass. The mud gives a little bit on the river bank. It’s quiet; it’s peaceful. And all of a sudden, it’s a gear shift inside you. And it’s like taking a deep breath and going... 'Oh yeah, I forgot about this' – The opening Monologue of the movie

‘An Inconvenient Truth’ is a retrospective of all intelligent research done over the issue of ‘global warming’. This is the movie which explains the 'in and out' of this hot issue in a very-very impeccable way. Any layman could easily understand the whole issue with ease. Before, I never knew that 'global warming' is different from 'depletion of Ozone layer' and that the latter is no more a pressing problem because the production of the responsible chemicals is already curbed. This movie can make one impatient (it did that to me…) because this movie disseminates the knowledge about our dark future. The future with high temperatures, major cities submerged in water, environmental imbalance, draughts, floods, diseases and much more.

Al Gore, the noble laureate for peace and the former United States vice president presents this ppt to an audience and as he said that he has presented this almost 1000 times before. He had been involved with this cause for very long time and wanted to make a lasting impact by becoming the president. This movie shows Al Gore’s anger over the powerful people who had deaf ears to the heaviest problem of our times. His way to contribute to earth is through continuously accumulating knowledge, understanding it thoroughly and presenting to the people to wake them up to the ground realities of global warming.

Al Gore touches upon the issue of Kyoto protocol and supports his point against American policies by informing about her Fuel economy standards which are lower compared with those in the countries like Japan, Korea, China and EU.

The film ends with a surprising but scientifically approved statement :
“Humanity already possesses the fundamental scientific, technical and industrial know-how to solve the carbon and climate problems…”
- Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow
Science , August 13, 2004

For reviews pls:
http://www.climatecrisis.net/

Flicka

Today, I watched a movie named “Flicka” – they say it means a pretty girl with innocence. I have to write about this review before anything else comes and for sure, I seen this kinda stuff after long time leaving my usual war type movies.. But This was GOOOD…

Flicka is the story of a Girl, daughter of a ranch owner. This young girl named Katy had seen a mustang in her childhood and became fond of her (mustang is a wild horse, a female one in the story), however the family won’t allow her to go close to the horse. As time passed by, Katy was sent to the college for few years and when she returns, this black horse was not there. Katy was an adventurous girl who liked the horses very much. One day she comes out from home in morning darkness , took a horse from their bunch and go out for a long ride. And far away she finds the same Mustang. From somewhere, a cougar approaches there, but the mustang runs her away. Katy used to think about the horses all the time and the ranch was a perfect place for her. Katy named her Flicka. Katy tried to get close to Flicka and tries to ride her but was thrown and got some injuries. Her father realized that it is time for some hard steps and he sent Flicka to someone who would use her commercially in games. This made Katie very upset. One day she visited a fair along with father, mother and borther and seen Flicka in the wild horse race. Katy managed to get in the wild horse race and went over Flicka to run away. The police and the family tried to search for them in the jungle. It was dark night and bad weather. Katy did not know where they have arrived. Suddenly they were attacked by the cougar. Cougar wound Flicka badly. When the family found them in the night, Katy was in a high fever and Flicka was beyond recovery. Looking at the condition of Flicka, Katy’s father decides to put down Flicka. But after getting Katy’s heartbroken approval, he instead goes in the jungle and shoots the cougar. Katy’s assumes that Flicka is down after hearing the gun shot. Katy wakes up next morning and her father gives her the surprise of bandaged but alive Flicka. This makes Katy very happy. Katy’s brother, who instead wanted to go to college, gets approval from father to go to the college and Katy stays back to take care of the ranch. The movie ends with the father and Katy sitting on their horses looking at the landscapes. The ending scene shows Katy on Flicka running in the vast green grounds…….

A place to be optimistic about the future..
The place that helps them to be what they wanna be …
That makes you feel that your life makes a sense…
The place where they can feel what I feel when I am riding Flicka..
Because when I ride, all I ride is…….
Freeing…..

For reviews of Flicka, pls :

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434215/

http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/flicka

Fear

When a being carries a fear, he/she tries to improves on his/her weaknesses.When a being carries no fear, he/she tries to build on his strengths.I want to get rid of my fears. The fears which makes me to underperform many a times.The key to performance is mostly playing fully to one's strengths. So fears are your obstacles which stops you from reaching to your full potential. Keeping fears away takes more than just a short thinking. It need a continuous reminder to the self about breathing full & enjoying the freedom of thoughts.For those moments, if u can catch-up with your strenghts, you will easily know what you are capable of.

Sometimes, while thinking about some dreadful issue at work place, if we come across an idea, which could give us a lead against our fears, we march with confidence, as if we have no fear left. But isn't this is an example of local fear ? I am talking about a fear which is prevailing in ourselves. A fear from unseen, a fear from unrecognizable. Thats the nature of the grand fear, which tells us that we are limited. And this thought kills our progress. Some of us who are smarter, they know how to manipulate ourselves. They are disciplined, hard working and they seem to have achieved success. If you are one of them, don't you have any fears ? Haven't your brain progressed towards evaluating a situation before coming to a conclusion ?, My point is......don't you realise that unless you get enough evidence that you can succeed, you are negative. That is the fear i am knocking about. (You might call it negative thinking / pessimism or whatever ...... but everyone has it, only the degree matters). And to one's surprise, it alone holds one's key to success..

Conviction is said to be the key to success. If you too think so, consider the following analogy.... If fearlessness is equal to a German engineered BMW engine with no flaws, then conviction is a repairing tool for a flawed car engine. Both engines can make you reach to a set destination. But while BMW shall make you a smooth sail with enjoyment, Repaired engine need to be handled with care and if disturned once, it can give you enough pains...

Ever seen a child ?.....Thats is the real human nature. Expansion of possibilities. Arrival of positive before negative is the essence of happiness and which reflects an absence of fear....

My personal encounter with this contrast happened when i exercised 'Art of Living' for few months. Everyday became better..... Possiby it has happened because the exercises enlarges lungs and increases blood flow in brain and thereby causing better concentration levels. Whether it is physical, or spiritual or anything which you might conclude.... I see that unless we overcome our fears, we shall not utilise ourselves completely..

You, Me and Everyone around has capabilities to reach to any thinkable extent, provided we can eliminate fear from within. I find this one quite true......

"If fear alters behavior, you're already defeated.” --Brenda Hammond

Brain can improve infinitely...

Without an idea of 'WHAT', I have started writing this message. Because I know the answer of 'WHY’. The very answer is the course of writing essays sometimes gets so taxing because of unending scope of improvements that it is largely a question of thought process improvement at a very basic level. It is quite disturbing but obvious to question myself (in those persisting moments) that why I have not learnt these miraculous way of expressions earlier. Rambling over such thoughts, I do spend whole nights piercing into my laptop unless I get bored with what I am doing (and that is when I go out for a puff) or I find my eyes getting close due to sleep. If you have not got the answer yet, this is to map my progress in expressing myself at a separate platform, other than that of B school application essays.

I am done and let me accept that though the above is making sense but it was not actually structured in my grey cells as should have been and so I need to emphasis on the structure well. This is never ending and because our conscious knows the reality and truth better than our brain. And it says that I will improve while writing like this. Thus I am still continuing. I want to train my brain while writing and that is exactly 'HOW' I am doing now. Can we call this process as analogy to the functioning of RAM in a computer ? I think yes, and here the hardware is already provided with, just need to grease the required cells efficiently. That is called training. Don’t you think that we need to grease our newly started cells for their proper functioning? As said in "Emotional Intelligence" - there are almost infinite circuits in the brain, which in themselves contain a way to think anything; it means your own brain is capable of thinking like Edison as well as like Mahatma Gandhi. In a normal way, people use only 2% of their brain capabilities. So that is what I am trying to increase now about my grey cells.

Irrespective of your current level, grace come in jumping to the next...... and the way is shown by Thomas Alva Edison by the following saying;

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration"