The Eagle's Lesson

I read a mail today. It talked about the eagle. An eagle has a life span of 70 years, but most eagles pass away after 40 years.

Why?

Because at the age of 40 they are faced with a difficult choice.
Their bright sharp yellow beaks turn grey-ish and become bent. Their long talons lose the power of picking up prey. Their old-aged feathers droop and stick to the eagles' chest, making it hard to fly. They are faced with the choice of either giving up and dying then or facing a painful process of change that lasts for 150 days.

To live on, the eagle goes to a mountain top and sits on its nest. There, it bangs its beak against the side of the mountain top until it breaks. Then it waits for a new beak to grow. After that, the eagle bites its own worn-out talons and then waits for new ones to grow back. Lastly, the eagle plucks out its feathers and then waits for them to regrow.

That is when the eagle is reborn and lives on for 30 more years.

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Sometimes change is necessary to move ahead in life.

At times, we need to let go of old beliefs and traditions and take a step forward.

Change is needed in life to exist.

Then why do so many people run away from change? Why are people so scared of a little difference in their lives? Why are they afraid of a change in their present and future?

Change translates into the word growth. Not always, but many a time.


"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."

- Anais Nin

True. How very true.

Fantasticality :P

I had almost lost hope on ever writing again (so maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration :P). I mean I have 9 drafts saved in my stupid dashboard. But then Fantastic Four 2 came around. Not that I was able to form sentences again, but I just had to, or rather have to blog on one of the most amazing movies of this year !






The strange thing is that the original plan was to see Shrek The Third.

Sagari, Bhavi and I were supposed to catch the 3 PM show and we made it there an hour early :S . We were just going to buy the tickets for Shrek when Sagari suddenly said, "We should go for Fantastic Four instead!" After 10 minutes of arguing over which movie we should see, we decided on Fantastic Four 2 - Thanks to Sagari ! Then we passed time by drooling at the Fantastic Four 2 posters and this amazing sculpture (:P) thing of The Silver Surfer. After a lot more wonderstruck staring, hogging and weird-incident-with-snack-counter-guy, we entered as soon as they opened the doors. After 25 minutes 0f trailer after advertisement after trailer after advertisement of some upcoming awesome movies (and the ads were of some awesome cellphones :D), the movie FINALLY began.

One of the best movies of this year, Fantastic Four 2 was suspenseful and brilliant. It was tied together brilliantly and all the actors did a wonderful job. After the movie, none of us wanted to get up. FF2 is one of those movies that glues you to the seat and doesn't allow you to even think of leaving. The cinematography was simply amazing - It's one of those 'must-watch-in-the-theator' movies.

Well, excusing the pathetic-ness of this review (if you can call it that), my point is FF2 was much MUCH better than expected and it kicks Spidey 3's ass :D !