“WE HUMANS AND OUR LIVES”

AN INSIGHT FROM THE MOVIE “THE MAN FROM EARTH”

Who are humans??? What is life??? What is the role of our heart and mind???

The biggest mystery of all times is that where have we humans come from, why are we named as humans and who has named us, humans. Our “existence” is what needs to be discovered. We humans as everyone knows are meant to take birth, live and die..... So what happened to John Oldman, why hasn’t he died as yet!!! We humans are meant to live for a 100 odd years, then how is it that John Oldman is shown as a normal human in the movie and has still been living for a period of 140 centuries.

I understand that movies are meant to entertain and they do at times cross the line of creativity and imagination but the point that i am trying to make here is why is it that many people like me cannot just stop thinking about the fact that what if the story of this movie actually did exist in some part of this world, a thought that runs across other minds too....... What if there is a person in this real world that has been living over the last couple of centuries??? A question that has no answer to it because may be we do not want to answer such questions. May be we are not ready to think on the lines above “life and death”. We have decided and confirmed to ourselves that life and death are the two sides of the coin that will and always happen. The happening of the former gives the conformance for the happening of the latter.

In the entire movie it is shown that John Oldman had his friends and colleagues always running through an entire mix of thoughts. In the end of the movie when his friends and colleagues actually were almost convinced on to believe him, John Oldman just breaks the ice and agrees to have been lying all this while and that is when we just witness a thought of relief on the faces of all his friends and colleagues. A relief of the fact that yes this is just not possible, a relief that something like this can never exist, a relief that everyone will die someday just like me, a relief that confirms to our thinking, and many such thoughts. This is the relief that has been a cause due to the thoughts of our mind that has created a world of reality around us, which allows us to see and understand things the ways in which, we wish too. Our heart is what allows us to think out of the box but it is our minds that restrict our thoughts to our self created world of reality.

“WE HUMANS AND OUR LIVES”

THE DARK PAST IN OUR LIVES

There are good and bad things that happen to all of us in life but of those there are a couple of issues or incidents in our life that leave a very big impact on our life or rather I shall say happenings of certain incidents that change our entire life completely. The occurrence of few incidents is in our control while the rest are out of our control. As most of us try to run from the dark side of our past in order to get over it, I learned a complete new method of getting over it, that is thinking more and more about the dark side of my past. Mere thinking does not help so what I learned on doing is to accept and let go of that bad past. To accept the occurrence of that dark past helps us beat the coward inside us who is always horrified by the fear factor. We are the ones who need to make a choice on whether we would allow our dark past to ruin our present and future or whether we would be the ones who would be the own dictator of our present and future lives.

There was a problem that I was facing for the last couple of years and actually I was running away from it which helped initially or rather for that particular moment but later it just got over me and made me very sad and depressed because it was rooted deep inside me but for the last 1 year or so I had decided to face this bad past of mine instead of running away from it.  To an extent I did manage to succeed but I was not sure of what I was doing, but when I learned that this is also a way of getting over your past totally, that is when my confidence built and as of now I am not really bothered about that dark side of my past. It is because now I have stopped giving it undue importance and I do not feel sad about it when a thought on it just runs across my mind. I sometimes feel that I should not have ruined the important years of my life thinking on such issues or incidents that are now past.

“WE HUMANS AND OUR LIVES”

WE HUMANS THE MOST SELFISH OF ALL

Another major learning that I acquired is that we humans are very selfish and we can never think about others happiness because we are only bothered about our own personal happiness. I had fought with a friend of mine in my school days and with whom I stopped talking for almost a decade now. It is in the last summers that I took the initiative and spoke to her. She was surprised on receiving my call, but I was very polite to her and asked her to forget the grudges between us and insisted her on being friends again. I managed to be friends with her, but when I was thinking about, on what made me call her after such a long time, I realized that it was not my kind nature of forgiving some ones mistakes that made me call her instead it was my selfish needs of giving mental peace to myself that I got after sorting out the fight with my old friend. I did this because I wanted to be in a peaceful state of mind and get over that old tension that I had created in my mind and my life about the fight that I had with my old school friend. When this thought of mine was supported by my Business Ethics Sir that is when I realized that there is nothing wrong in me feeling so because I figured out that it is human nature on being self centred. So I guess it is high time we all realize that in this world all individual live only for one’s self.