For the past two days, I've been catching up with the Harry Potter movies with my brother. Initially, I thought I'd read the books but soon to realize that there's a huge stack of books pending to be read on my bookshelf already. I don't know if I am the only one that thinks so but the HP movies provide life lessons - lessons on courage, love, strength, ambition, fear, friendships, perseverance and most importantly choices.
I believe that our choices define us and the ability to have such a huge power to impact ourselves is pretty awesome. Most people have made numerous choices throughout their lifetimes - even a simple choice between what flavour of ice cream to buy (not such a simple choice for many of us) and tougher choices, such as, what university to go to or the choice of letting go or holding on. Soon these choices which we've been making throughout our lives end up shaping the person we turn out to be. Sure, we might make mistakes but to realize our mistakes and make a choice of learning from them and moving on is a choice that defines as well.
In the worst of times, we might be depressed, heart-broken, unhappy, confused... but happiness is a choice as well! We can choose what affects us. Obviously, this isn't as easy as it sounds and takes a lot of downturns to realize it but it is possible. We have the ability to choose what hurts us and what makes us happy.
We can choose to let go. We don't have to let negative experiences define us. We can make choices that shape us to be the person we aspire to be.
I like this Nikita :)
ReplyDeleteYou should really read the books. They are much better and they are littered with deeper messages than the movies.
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