Gladiator and Nitin
I have been seeing a lot of movies. The following is an interesting excerpt from the gladiator. Its the scene just before the old king is killed by his son.
QUOTE
"you wrote to me once listing the four chief virtues: wisdom, justice, fortitude and temperance. As i read the list i knew i had none of them but i have other virutes, father.
Ambition that can be a virtue when it drives us to excel.
Resourcefulness, courage perhaps not on the battlefield, but there are many forms of courage.
Devotion to my family to you but none of my virtues were on your list. Even then it was as if you didnt want me for your son
I searched the faces of the god for ways to please you to make you proud. One kind word one full hug while you breat me to your chest and held me tight would have like the sun on my heart for a thousand years. What is this in me that you hate so much? all i ever wanted was to live up to you father!"
UNQUOTE
Quite revealing indeed. Before i tell you more about the context of these thoughts let me tell you about two different discussions that i had in the past. The first one involved the one of my friend's sister. She said that things like faith, values and such have their foundation laid by sources outside your own self. Much later one of my co-worker in the company expressed the opinion that ultimately what counts is your own self.
Both the arguments have their own merits but at the stage I am at present the former has played a more important than the latter. Like most of you in the list the last few years have been rather turbulent. Many ups and downs and situations where I was literally on the edge.
The edge meant that things happened to you rather than you making them happen. In retrospect i feel that things that happened were more good than bad. And there are many in this mailing list who were responsible for those nice things happening in my life. I won't bore you with the details but I would like to thank you all for all the nice things that you have done for me.
The reason for this great show of gratitude is that the IIM results are out and I've got final acceptance letters and will finally go to bangalore. And I guess I got into bangalore also because I was more fortunate than the Son who killed the king. I was and am surrounded by people who perhaps unwittingly said a lot of nice things about me. I guess that I have made enough use of heavy sentimental stuff. So it time to tell you about the lighter moments of life. I always felt that people never took seriously enough. Quite true many of you would say but then every rule have their exceptions. It so happens that I have a few good friends in pune. A few days back I was chatting with one of them and as usual I made a few comments. Needless to say the remarks made were untrue. But then my dear friend Nitin was away from me for a long time and he failed to see through them and so shocked was he that BSNL earned some money for their long distance network.
Without going into the details let me say that this was not exactly an exception. A few days later I made three outstation girls see a movie at around 10 in the night. The best part was that the guy who initiated the plan (ie me) was not there to watch the movie.
QUOTE
"you wrote to me once listing the four chief virtues: wisdom, justice, fortitude and temperance. As i read the list i knew i had none of them but i have other virutes, father.
Ambition that can be a virtue when it drives us to excel.
Resourcefulness, courage perhaps not on the battlefield, but there are many forms of courage.
Devotion to my family to you but none of my virtues were on your list. Even then it was as if you didnt want me for your son
I searched the faces of the god for ways to please you to make you proud. One kind word one full hug while you breat me to your chest and held me tight would have like the sun on my heart for a thousand years. What is this in me that you hate so much? all i ever wanted was to live up to you father!"
UNQUOTE
Quite revealing indeed. Before i tell you more about the context of these thoughts let me tell you about two different discussions that i had in the past. The first one involved the one of my friend's sister. She said that things like faith, values and such have their foundation laid by sources outside your own self. Much later one of my co-worker in the company expressed the opinion that ultimately what counts is your own self.
Both the arguments have their own merits but at the stage I am at present the former has played a more important than the latter. Like most of you in the list the last few years have been rather turbulent. Many ups and downs and situations where I was literally on the edge.
The edge meant that things happened to you rather than you making them happen. In retrospect i feel that things that happened were more good than bad. And there are many in this mailing list who were responsible for those nice things happening in my life. I won't bore you with the details but I would like to thank you all for all the nice things that you have done for me.
The reason for this great show of gratitude is that the IIM results are out and I've got final acceptance letters and will finally go to bangalore. And I guess I got into bangalore also because I was more fortunate than the Son who killed the king. I was and am surrounded by people who perhaps unwittingly said a lot of nice things about me. I guess that I have made enough use of heavy sentimental stuff. So it time to tell you about the lighter moments of life. I always felt that people never took seriously enough. Quite true many of you would say but then every rule have their exceptions. It so happens that I have a few good friends in pune. A few days back I was chatting with one of them and as usual I made a few comments. Needless to say the remarks made were untrue. But then my dear friend Nitin was away from me for a long time and he failed to see through them and so shocked was he that BSNL earned some money for their long distance network.
Without going into the details let me say that this was not exactly an exception. A few days later I made three outstation girls see a movie at around 10 in the night. The best part was that the guy who initiated the plan (ie me) was not there to watch the movie.
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