MALEFICENT!!!

 OK! Review Time!

Maleficent a First Live action version of Sleeping Beauty. It always amuses me when an animated version stories, which we have seen for years, are recreated into live action. I am glad for the technology advancement that we can now see real life versions of fairy tales we have been reading or watching (Animated versions) for years!

Maleficent is yet another remarkable live action version. It has everything that we have seen in Sleeping beauty, hardly anything been missed.

Is there a little Princess who grows up to be the most beautiful young lady, yes.

Is there a King and Queen trying to protect their your daughter, yes.

Are there 3 fairies who takes Aurora away to a woodcutter's cottage in the forest until the day of her sixteenth birthday, Yes.

Is there a Villain, Yes.

Is there a Curse, yes.

Is there a counter curse, yes.

Is there a handsome Prince, yes.

And specially, is there a Dragon, oh hell yes!

Then what makes this movie different than the animated version you ask? Well I am not going to spoil the suspense for you. You must only watch it to know it

I can say one thing, you will be amused and surprised at the same time.

Amazing screenplay by Linda Woolverton. After giving wonderful art directions for amazing movies, Robert Stromberg has done magnificent job even though it was his directorial debut. Superb VFX and cinematography. Be ready for lots of awwwws while watching the movie.

And as it was Angelina Jolie I need not say anything about acting. She played Maleficent so splendidly, that you cannot stop to love and hate her at the same time. Her daughter -Vivienne Jolie-Pitt- played young princess Aurora and the way they are shown sharing the screen, though for a little while, took my heart away! All I know -I was sooooooooo jealous of ppl who shared screen with Angie....and that to standing so close to her, splly - Elle Fanning and Sam Riley. I really don't have right to be jealous, but I sure was.



People who love Angei, fantasies, fairy tales and knows the story of Sleeping will enjoy the movie for sure. It is summer treat for all Disney lovers better not miss it.

Personally I cannot get Maleficent out of my head! And I am sure I am gonna see it again, for how many times more, I am not sure of that yet.

What about the negativity of the people? (Shared)

I know that if I am affected by the negativity of other people then I am going to be plunged into the cycle of actions, reactions and responses over which I have no control.  But if I see them, hear them, respect them as human beings and individuals and I understand their point of view, I will not let myself be moved from my position of inner stability.

 

If I can make sure that I remain my own master, their negativity will flow over me and above me and not influence me.  I can ask myself what it is that I want and then move in the direction to reach that goal.  I can develop the art of detachment, being friends and yet not allowing them to touch me.

 

I can draw on another analogy here: think of the image of a lotus flower.  It is found in dirty, stagnant water yet the lotus has a waxy substance on its petals and nothing can touch the surface, the dirt just rolls off. I can create that layer of protection so my inner purity and stability remain unaffected by outside influences.  Only in this way can I be true to myself. Otherwise I become a puppet of circumstances and situations that others have created and I am no longer a master of my own feelings and destiny.

 

I learn to have this protection through the experience of detachment and the awareness of Universal Energies and this will bring a canopy of blessings influencing myself and others around me.

Are You Proud Of Your Dad? (Shared)

Really good one....

 

Are you proud of your Dad?

 

On the first day, as President Abraham Lincoln entered to give his inaugural address, Just in the middle, one man stood up.  He was a rich aristocrat.

 

He said, "Mr. Lincoln, you should not forget that your father used to make shoes for my family ."
 

And the whole Senate laughed; they thought they had made a fool of Abraham Lincoln.

 

But Lincoln and that type of people are made of a totally different mettle.

 

Lincoln looked at the man and said, " Sir I know that my father used to make shoes in your house for your family, and there will be many others here…. Because the way he made shoes; nobody else can.

He was a creator. His shoes were not just shoes; he poured his whole soul in it.

 

I want to ask you, have you any complaint?  Because I know how to make shoes myself.

 

If you have any complaint, I can make another pair of shoes.

 

But as far as I know, nobody has ever complained about my father's shoes. 
 

He was a genius, a great creator and I am proud of my father".

 

The whole Senate was struck dumb. They could not understand what kind of Man Abraham Lincoln was.

 

He was proud because his father did the job so well that not even a single complaint had ever been heard.

 

Moral of the story

 

Are you proud or embarrassed of your dad and what he used to do for a living?

 

"No one can hurt you without your consent."

 

" It is not what happens to us that hurts us. It is our response that hurts us."

SELF-CONTEMPLATION: LOVING ME (Shared!)

The more I love myself,the less I will need love from others. Does it resonate with you?This is the eternal truth which we miss in our life. No one taught us to love ourselves. We were told to have high self-esteem,be self-confident but not much about loving the self.

What do we all seek in relationships?LOVE, right?The key to experience love in relationships is to first feel the love from within. Peace, love and happiness are the most popular intangible rock stars that the whole world is dying to seek.But the truth is they are not out there, but waiting to be rediscovered within. 

 

         In fact I am peace, I am love and I am happiness.I, the being of light resonate in the frequency of peace, love and happiness based on my moments. Each frequency or vibrations of peace, love or happiness give me different experience.This is why we all prefer and seek to be peaceful, loving and happy. It is my original nature. So the whole life, we run after love trying to experience it with different people in different relationships. We do experience it momentarily but we all realize at some point that we cannot get it from anyone continuously.Sometimes I get, sometimes I don’t. 

           

When I don’t get love, I fight, argue, quarrel, demand, beg, and in return get hurt, frustrated, angry...I need to love myself because I am love itself. All others are trigger points for my love. 

When someone loves me, he/she is basically triggering the love within me.How can I invoke and feel my love? When,I accept myself for Who I AM – no judgments I treat myself with sweetness and care – not being hard on me.I appreciate myself for all that I am and I am doing – no criticism.With lot of tenderness and gentleness, I teach myself,correct myself, and tune myself – not being mean and guilty.

 

                      I express myself with openness and trust –not suppress with stress, social opinions and fear.I respect myself for all my specialties, strengths and my unique flavour, I add to the world – not being down,jealous, comparing.I am clear with myself using truth and honesty – not getting confused or thinking too much.I embrace my weaknesses acknowledging its presence within me but also realizing that it is not me – not feeling guilty or awful, being at some bad place, e.g., anger is present in me, but I am not anger; I am love.

          When I start embracing the love within me, I automatically share that love with others – all my needs and wants disappear and I no longer seek love but give love to all in the universe.

My MOM is MY Best Friend.

There is nothing in this world that can take place of mother. She is best creation of Universe!

My mom is my Best Friend. 

She is the one who has always been there for me, on my every need. Whenever I am down, she is the one who tries her best to bring Smile on my face, tries to cheer me up, counsel me to get through the tough days.

She fights with others if they ever treat me bad. I am her weakest point and she makes no stone unturned to let the world know it.

Yes, there comes time when she gets mad at me, scolds me sometimes even spank me. But I do know it is only for my own good. She wants me to be the best in world hence she never support my bad behavior.

She is the one who overflows with joy when something good has come on my way.  Even though my achievements are small, she cannot stop to brag about my success to others.

Many a times my friends have failed me and world has given me plenty of reasons to lose faith in humanity. But it is my Mom who keeps me going with the good deeds as she believes – “What’s goes around, comes around.” She always advices me not to have attitude of Tit for Tat, as nothing goods come from it. If people fails you, you should never joins there way as the motive of life should be to spread happiness.   And it is the only way of gaining happiness of ourselves.

I am not a girly girl. I am least interested in household works. And that sometimes irritates my Mom. But she has never ever forced me to do something I don’t have will of doing. She give me advices, but let me take my own decisions.

As my age being crucial and heavy target of questions like “When are you going to get Married?” It is my Mom who speaks on behalf of me and tell off others saying “I won’t force her into marriage until she says she is ready. My daughter is not a Burden on me, and we are ready to have her in our house as long as she wants to. And we will let her go when she finds her partner to spend her entire life with.”  

It is her confidence in me that encourages me to share each and everything with her. I cannot hide anything from her. And I am glad to the fact that I can be transparent with her about everything. I share  my future goals, my dreams with her and she keeps on encouraging to take steps to achieve them and never to give up no matter how hard to accomplish they seems.  She knows my failed love life and has been the strongest pillar to me to get over it. She knows all my crushes and discusses it with possibility if one day I could be serious about one of them.  

My mom is bestest (If that’s a word) gift to me. It is her upbringing that made my life so vibrant. And I am sure one day with her blessings I will achieve all my dream goals and she will be there giving me Thumbs-Up and saying “I told You so.”

There is no one in this world can take my Mom’s place in my life. And I cannot love her more. And I know each and every person has the same view towards their mothers too.

So here I wish all the My Super Mom and all the Mothers in the world a Very HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!