Sure, there’s a hookah-smoking caterpillar and a rabbit in a waistcoat, but that doesn’t mean that the amazing journey of a 19-year-old Alice (Mia Wasikowska) into “Underland” isn’t chocked full of wise life lessons worth practicing in the real world. Here are three worth paying attention to:
1. Be True to Yourself: When Alice is at a Victorian garden party, she sees a vested rabbit hop through the flower beds — but no one else does. “Did you see that?” she asks a number of fellow guests, none of whom shares her vision. The lesson? Trust your own eyes — even if they’re seeing white rabbits, mad hatters and violent red queens. When Alice follows the rushing rabbit down a hole, she embarks on a magical journey of self-discovery that’s unique to her. Lives are like snowflakes: No two are alike.
2. The Pressure to Conform to Social Conventions Is Intense: Resist! In the movie, an eligible, wealthy but disagreeable nobleman proposes to Alice in front of family and friends. The expectation for Alice to marry the unsuitable twit is high, compounded by the fact that the young pair are surrounded by a society that expects her to say yes. While most teens aren’t forced into marriage, the constant barrage by TV and music and peers to get tattoos, piercings and wear risqué clothing without fully understanding the message this behavior sends to the society at large offers another flavor of dangerous conformity.
3. Sometimes a Good Person Has to Take a Stand and Fight for What’s Right: From the moment Alice arrives in Underland, the locals, including the Mad Hatter (played by a trippy Johnny Depp), expect her to be their champion in the fight against the repressive Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter). What’s not to hate about a royal whose favorite phrase is “Off with his head?” But Alice is initially convinced this is not her battle, or her world, and she doesn’t see herself as a warrior. But, ultimately, she discovers her inner-champion; that part of her being that when confronted by injustice must fight for right, even if that means risking her neck or slaying a dragon of a Jabberwocky with a Vorpal sword.
Go ask Alice when she’s ten feet tall, or just small. There’s a lot of common sense to this Lewis Carroll nonsense after all.
In the moment of the nights dawn
when the birds sang their last song,
I let out my boat in the golden water
which sparkled in the nights glitter.
Slow and steady I pushed the rows
Breaking the silence, the nights vow
I felt I was the night king
I had the power to make bells ring.
I felt the power the passion and glory
I stood high I was the king of the story
but suddenly I realised when I looked
that I was all alone and no one stood.
Cheers !!
Heena
Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist who recently won the “Ukraine’s Got Talent” competition. She uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and “sand painting” skills to interpret the invasion and occupation of her country from 1941-1945.
This one really impressed me to the core !!
Cheers !!
Being a Piscean and having grown-up in a city by the sea, I have always admired and got inspired by the beautiful sea.
The sea had become an integral part of me and my lifestyle… I used to go there with my family, friends and sometime alone – when I needed time to introspect. And in the due course I have learnt many things from it.
Of the many lessons , one which is riposting to me is –
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to loose sight of the shore.
We all want to find new shores, newer opportunities and newer dimensions of everything.
What is needed is to come-out of your comfort zone and find a new yourself in the courage zone.
We need to take risk, we need to be comfortable about loosing whatever seems so predictable to us now.
I feel I am ready !!… its time I move on … deeper into the ocean… perhaps in the course of this journey I find my ownself.
Cheers !!
Heena
líneas de dulce: Usted es parte de un puzzle en someones vida. Nunca se sabe cuál es su lugar, pero recuerde que la vida de alguien que nunca puede ser completa sin ella.
As I wake up to this fresh morning after a beautiful day of celebration yesterday , I realized that there is more meaning to the festival of “Holi”.
We, as a family, celebrated Holi yesterday, applying colours to each other, music , dance and good food ( without the intoxicating “bhang” !!)
As I applied the colours to others, few things which were like important life lessons came in front of me.
Isn’t this what life is about ?.. where you have the power to colour it in your very own way… choose the right colour .. right people and make your life magical .. just the way you want !!.
Hope you know that your life too is an empty colouring book for which you are the painter !!
Cheers!!
Heena
"When my words Matter !!" 