Tsunami strikes south east asia. More than 30,000 dead!!
I read this and it doesn't affect me at all. I mean not at all. I read the whole article just as any other article. I attend some shows whoes earnings was supposed to be sent for relief fund. I dont get moved by most of the pictures that I see. Once discussing tsunami with my labmate, I suddenly realised that I don't feel anything for the people who suffer from this. The idea of me being so insensitive scares me sometimes.
"Mein marne se pahele ek baar apane potey ke saath khelna chahata hun "
I was watching the movie "waqt": some random hindi flick about father-son relationship. I tried hard but couldn't stop tears. I dont remember at what point but something hit me and I started crying. While I was crying, somewhere in my thoughts I was feeling happy that I am afterall not so insensitive. I do get moved somethings. It was quite relieving.
I realised news dont affect me but stories do.
9 comments:
hey i cant imagine u cry, seeing a hindi movie!!!yeah but tht insensitiveness tht u have mentioned, I too am a victim of the same I suppose.
i dunno if crying after seeing a movie qualifies as sensitivity, but WAQT???? im disappointed panda. I can imagine crying after watching ANJALI not waqt
shrini, It definitely does..if u didnt get the whole picture than what I said is just a news article never moves me..but when I read the story of some particular tsunami victim and how his life has been devastated after it I do get the urge to help him out...the whole point being I have to know a person to get emotional about something happening to him. If I reada gen statement my reaction is like waise bhi everyday millions of people face the same problems..
bas bey now jaldi se mujhe waqt dekhke rone ka hai
Yup, the London blasts also raging a similar feeling in me...when all my labmates have it as "talk of the day"... I think "Itna kyun hulla gulla kar rahen hai...?? kabhi bomb blast nahi suna kya..?? " Yup and movies are seriously moving... they are build for that..hehehe
May be it is the effect of movie, which put the viewers in the shoes of the actors.
A random idea just struck me, imagine the junta who can sense the gravity of tsunami just by listening to news and presentation. No doubt they will work there ass off to do whatever they can do for them. I am sure some of the peoples like this will be in AID chapters.
I haven't thought abt my insensitivity, i was little bit moved by tsunami but waqt doesn't made any impression on me .... panda u don't worry, there are ppls worse than u (myself).
-harsh
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Wel well well.... Am reading this article after a long time and I cant say I completely agree with ur sentiments.... but I can understand, hota hai hota hai.. I was in India at the time Tsunami hit... I dint realise what a catastrophe it was, until I saw the pictures. And after that, I had even gone to Chennai and seen the Marina beach. Even after 10 days people were clearing up all the mess.... wen my aunt told me that the water had come til the road, actually seeing how much distance the wave had covered made my skin crawl.... And am sure ppl heard the story of the boy who was playing cricket on the beach with his friends as a usual routine,the ball went onto the road, so tht boy went runing onto the road to get the ball so engrossed to save the run that he dint even bother about the loud noise of the wave right behind him, he collected the ball gladly and turned around to see water where he was playing just a few seconds back....
I remember, on my way back to US I had flown via Colombo and had an overnite stay , so me and my friend went to the beach, coz our hotel was on the beach and in the night listening to those waves hitting the shore was so terrifying for me... every single splash the wave made with a rumbling noise in the night was nerve rackingly scaring. I, a person who was far away from the killer wave and had not even seen it besides on TV was soo scared, I cannot even begin to imagine what the people must've felt watching the wave come and wash out their existence in a split second... turning their lives upside down.
I watched the videos later on and as hard as it maybe for me to admit it, but I have to face the reality that I for one, will now always be scared of the ocean which, with its beatiful blue colour used to, at one time make me jump into it with joy. This reality check has proven way too costly...
Sorry thoda heavy dose ho gaya....
Haffun...
All we can do is pray that Mother Nature doesn't lash out like this again! Atleast now, after the rains in Mumbai, hope things get back to normal son enough...
Tata...
Sirish.....
I wonder why I cried while watching 'Waqt' ---it was that scene in the end when Amitabh is dying and he names his grandson...and also when he puts flower in his wife's hair (returns as a ghost!). Funny how movies touch you.
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