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was chatting with physicist friend Rajesh about life and chances, serendipity and coincidences. is it organic or are we all part of a larger well-oiled vehicle at play- why some of us are lecturers, some firemen, bakers, investment bankers and so on. Are we part of a meaningful cosmic scheme? Is meditation and yoga a well-lit path to understanding the neon lights of enlightenment that mere superficial mortal beings with neantherdal needs and whims cant fanthom much less see? 

rajesh elaborated on the highers states of awareness that deep meditation brings him. His yoga mates have claimed to feel a certain energy coming out from him. He believes that there aint a personal God like an Aunt Agony figure. He believes that God has created the world and has given us brains and we are supposed to settle our own problems, to put it aptly.

I believe in a larger scheme of things, movies are useful this way.

I mentioned the movie ’sliding door’ to him, where two possibilities are played out- one when the protagonist managed to catch the train and caught her boyfriend cheating on her and the other when she didnt and she lives in happy oblivion. Which is a happier outcome? Is honesty more important than earthy happiness? Ultimately she came to the same end suggesting that thou the paths can be altered, the labyrinth can only lead to the same destination.

later that day i watched the film adaptationIan of Ian McEwan’s Atonment, novel par excellent. told through the eyes of a jealous young girl Briony, guility of scotoma, she accused an innocent young man Robbie of a hedious crime, thus killing his chance of becoming a doctor and becoming his sister, Cecilia’s boyfriend. Not having understood the passion she has witnessed, she mistook it for violence. Her inquisitive, overly imaginative mind bends the truth and twisted facts to fit it into a novel she will eventually write as an act of penance. In the end, the pen of the writer has the power to construt on paper what mortals have no power to change.

“So, my sister and Robbie were never able to have the time together they both so longed for… and deserved. Which ever since I’ve… ever since I’ve always felt I prevented. But what sense of hope or satisfaction could a reader derive from an ending like that? So in the book, I wanted to give Robbie and Cecilia what they lost out on in life. I’d like to think this isn’t weakness or… evasion… but a final act of kindness. I gave them their happiness. “