If only we had ...

Avatar - watched it countless times, watching it again(writing this assuming you have watched it:-))

Neytiri and Jake have met, and I’ll not bother with the details. Jake starts to follow her and at one point the seeds of the sacred tree starts to rest on him, Neytiri thinks it’s a ‘sign’ from their great mother takes Jake to Hometree, Now we all know how it ended up for the whole of Na’vi.

‘See it through her(Neytiri) eyes’ – Grace tells Jake because he is so focused on collecting Intel and experiencing his new found excitement(legs) as Colonel Miles Quaritch(The guy with the scar) promises Jake that he will walk again if he gathers intelligence from the Na’vi. This plus excitement of the new experience through the avatar, has made him so focused.

‘I see you’ – we hear Neytiri say it aloud more than a few times and later by Jake too.

I think that we all miss the signs around us every day/each moment, as there is so much clatter going on inside our mind, and we are so FOCUSED on what we want, we really don’t stop to see what we have, appreciate it and also see the signs all around us. If only we had seen the signs...

When was the last time you stopped to see the other person’s perspective, we are so full of ME we never stop to see it through the other person’s eyes. If only we had seen it through their eyes...

How many times have we REALLY seen what the other person has done (for us), how many times have we really appreciated it out loud. If only we had seen the other person and appreciated them for what they have done...

Good old Park Bench... My First Blog :-)

Today, I inquired a friend of mine about her vacation and asked her to share the pictures, she asked if I was her friend on Facebook, I was surprised to see myself respond back asking if I was her friend (out of Facebook) her response was 'yes I think so'. 

It made me think consciously (most of the time I feel our subconscious mind makes all our decisions for us :-)) about the people around me who are so focused on social networking sites, 

Are we really interested in our 350+ friends? 
Can we not close a single day without sharing our status? 
Can we not take a picture without thinking if it could be our next profile picture? 
Are we losing the ability to make friends in the physical world? 
Are we slowly but steadily losing interest in the people physically present around us? 
How can a loved one compete for attention while we get likes, Pokes, messages from 300 odd people whom we never meet?

I have a few hundred friends in my Facebook account, I don't remember how it grew but I surely feel a nudge inside when I see 300+ updates everyday be it in the morning or in the evening makes me wonder what will happen to the good old park bench.

P.S. Ironically I had to publish this in Facebook ;-)