Willing to pay the price

I watched Yeh Jawaani hai deewani today. Not as sensational as I expected it to be, but quite insightful all the same.  The movie is not surely not for the regular day-to-mouth guys but for those with possibilities of living their dreams comes true, already assured - at least financially!

In life we need to give up something in order to earn or gain something. We need to leave a place to reach another. We simply cannot have everything of everything without giving up something, often that what we love most at one point or the other.  Now what decides the mode of our life is where our focus lies, once this fact is learnt (either the regular way or the hard way).  Where exactly do we focus?  On what's given up or what one is chasing after?

So here's my final take on the characters and their attitudes towards life...

• One who really does not value what he or she is striving after or has not deemed it worthy enough to leave behind something of worth, and is still pursuing the new line, is either a wreck or an assured failure.  
• One who does not know the worth of what he or she is leaving behind, does not also know the worthiness or the uselessness of what he or she is chasing after now.  
• One who mourns and not cherishes what he or she has to leave behind will always be unhappy, even if he or she would achieve their goal.  
• Blessed is he or she who cherishes the past and hopes for the future with an open mind and heart... even if he does not succeed, he or she will always be happy and enthusiastic about life.

Last word... happiness means different things to different people. It can also mean different things to the same person at different times. Maturity is nothing but knowing the latter!