After a long time... and yes relations still are complicated!

I know, this title does'nt make sense! Well can't think of any right now, to be frank, this is the first time that I have written a title first and then the post, so if there seems a disconnect between the title and the post, you know from where that's coming.
Enough of the disclaimers... I have been away from the blog for so long, I was scared I might end up forgetting how to find it! Well, with a kid around, things are not easy, and whenever you do find some tiny bit of free time, you tend to sleep...this is the story of most new parents nowadays... sleep deprived parent... I must add ... It just makes me wonder how my mom took care of us when we were babies or toddlers for that matter... whew!
That brings me to another topic, Why are we so judgemental about everything, more so if there is a girl/woman involved. First of all, till things are not outright heroic, we tend to assume, that's simple .... everyone does it. I mean I never fully understood the complexities of being a mom and raising a kid, till I had one. I regret many of my outbursts targeted at my mom now... I mean most of the mom's are our punching bags... stressbusters. Dad's furious, boss is irritating, work pressure... study tension... you could take it all out on mom... But did we ever stop and think, how does she release her stress... and yes when she does try by getting irritating or edgy... we blame it on the age gap and tend to say ' Oh mom's are so nagging!'
If a wedding is called off, people so easily and quickly judge that it must be the girl's fault. I mean if the girl calls it off , then it is ; 'she must adjust' If the boy calls it off, then there must be some problem with the girl.
It could have been a mutual decision... or even if it was not, who are we to expect them to follow our belief's and thoughts. Are'nt they told enough to know what's good for them! Why this sudden outburst of soceital commitment and lessons in rightous behaviour?
The society was formed so that humans could live safely and lead a life free of chaos. Sadly, today society itself is one of the dangers. Be it honour killings, dowry deaths or plain mental torture of the 'log kya kahenge' phenomenon. If only we could ponder more before we talk and behave, things could be so different.

What did you see in Avatar?

Did you watch Avatar? You would say, Is that a question! Who hasn’t? Well true, one of the biggest box office hits and Golden globe award winner, you have to be blind to miss it! Well that truly is worth a thought, can’t it be somehow made available to the blind! I mean those who are literally blind not those who choose to turn a blind eye. Oh! Well, but this is stirring away from the plot of this post, so we can give it a thought later.

Did you know that it has come under fire from various interest groups and nations! There is a whole bunch of them starting with the Church, who is against the movie because it is supposed to propagate ideas of worshipping nature. Now, since when do we have the liberty to decide what should aliens worship? It’s their choice, their land, they can pray anything they want. For that matter even on Earth we have various faiths that believe in worshipping some form of nature or the other. If the church is worried that suddenly people might start praying trees in their backyard. They can chill, for that’s not going to happen. Had we earthlings been that sensitive, the issue of global warming wouldn’t have aroused!

That brings me to the second group. A certain section believes that the film overdramatized the possibility of environmental catastrophe on earth. Well this statement itself is so guilt ridden. If environmental catastrophe hadn’t been real would we have been equally scared to see its visualization? We can easily digest a movie that is based on assumptions of doomsday theory but are reluctant to see that probably the doomsday (environmental catastrophe) is man- made.
Then there are loads of others like feminists, anti-smoking groups etc. Now even China has a problem with this movie. Chinese believe the imperialist themes of the movie that shows the natives, being forcefully evicted from their homes by industrialists, is a parable for Chinese people whose dwellings have been forcefully razed to make way for new constructions. I don’t get this one. Shouldn’t they be happy that even if that is the case their plight is being projected in front of the world. Well, who am I to say anything in this.

However, I left the theater on a sad note, because it made me realize how much forest cover we might have lost for want of industrialization. And was it warranted ? How many animals did we render homeless, how many plants have gone extinct. For once it was a movie that projected man as the evil and probably that is what has made many uncomfortable. We are ‘ok’ with movies that depict aliens as the evil who come in spaceships to take over our planet. We are the heroes, why should we have a problem. But the moment we see on screen what we have been doing to our planet. A dying planet, the only place where we can survive, we are all jittery. I hope for once we open our eyes and make a conscious effort to recycle, reuse, plant more trees and use resources judiciously. Stop pushing the issue under the carpet and raise to the occasion.