In midst of all this confusion called Life, often also given the very onerous sounding sobriquet, "The Real World", we forget the things that used to make us smile. Then one day you run across something that brings it all back.
The following I found on YouTube, on looking up Neil Gaiman, while reading the Sandman series.
Listening to this was like sitting in a room, drinking coffee with Alice, Baba Yaga, Ivan the youngest, Jack with his handful of beans, Little Red Riding Hood, The Ugly Duckling and their whole gang, discussing on what to do and what not to do. The complex yet so simple rules they live their life by, and the cliched yet so profound lessons you learn from them.
Then you realize that all the answers you've been looking for, have already been told to you, hidden in these long forgotten stories and all your trials and tribulations are but simple manifestations of what these characters went through while you were tucked away in your bed sucking your thumb.
Hope you enjoy the following video, nice little funny introduction in the beginning.
He makes it all sound so simple, black and white - and it should be - when the heck did the color gray seep in so much into our lives? Awesome post.
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ReplyDelete@akshay
ReplyDeleteMaybe we just paint it in greys and make a big deal out of it, just to show that we are doing a lot in living our lives, not unlike we do in so many other things...
@Borna
Oh c'mon, you could have at least let that feeling last a little while [:P]
hey!! sorry for last night's comment.
ReplyDeleteI had stopped trusting my stories yesterday :)I need to get back to that little home, or make a home maybe, but i think last night's rest was good too :D
@borna
ReplyDelete[:)]..."all you need is trust and a bit of pixie dust"....
Superb post. Thanks for sharing the video :-)
ReplyDeleteBTW, gray gives texture. Black and white could look sharp, but then how would a subject be different from its background.
@bansi
ReplyDelete[:)]...only one who can paint potraits like you that go beyond the two dimensions of a photograph, can come up with something like this...true, whats the fun without the texture...whats the fun if you never get to say, "at that point in my life, I was not sure what to do."
but the eternal optimist in me (and maybe that problem solving engineer) likes to believe that there are answers, and like all good answers, they are always simple...
aaah ,... what a beauty ..
ReplyDeleteMade my day ..
Thanks Sandy
Hi..
ReplyDeleteBig Gaiman/Sandman fan here.. love your blog..
I am not sure if you have read this before, but it might interest you..
Thus spake Titania, Queen of Faerie in Neil Gaiman's Books of Magic :
"There are only two worlds -- your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not important. What is important is that they are. These worlds provide an alternative. Provide an escape. Provide a threat. Provide a dream, and power; provide refuge, and pain. They give your world meaning. They do not exist; and thus they are all that matters. Do you understand?"
PS : seeing as you have read Sandman.. I think you might find this interesting :
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