Time and Tide Waits For No One

The Fountain is a movie starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. It is directed and written by Darren Aronofsky.

It is a movie that will make you realize that death is inevitable and nobody can escape it.

It is about accepting death. Life ends in death but death may also be the birth of another life. Izzy was trying to tell Tom that he can never conquer death and that he should change his attitude about death. Spirituality versus science. Izzy is the soul/internal/emotional side and Tom is the reason/rational/science side. She is ready to die while he said that death is a disease that can be cured.

 

I understood the film and loved the way it neatly came through at the end. I am in awe!!  It reflects many of the eastern religious thoughts.

 

The movie is a spiritual journey for Tom. His wife,

Izzy knew that he wouldn't be able to accept her death so she wrote a book for him but told him to complete the last chapter. It's like he comes to terms with her death by finishing the book. He becomes enlightened and accepts that death may mean birth for the soul without the physical body.

 

I felt that whatever problems, obstacles, and pressure I have in life seem insignificant to the universe as a whole and that life is precious and death ends it and there is another life waiting for us to go through. It is important that you should not take your loved ones for granted for you never know when death will take them or death takes you.

 

Working your ass off may not contribute to much in the end. Finding a cure to cancer does not mean people will not die. You have to grow mentally, spiritually, nurture your soul and have the right perspective on life. Working too hard may not bear fruit or it may be fruitful but all that you have done will some day vanish off the face of the earth. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

 

Get your priorities right...that's not difficult to achieve when you realize how precious time is and your life is certainly ticking away.

 

What have you done today? Have you grown spiritually? Are you prepared for death? Are you ready?

How does my Saturday look like you may want to ask, well here are a few things I do on a typical Saturday at home. Morning starts out at 10 or 11 am and I stay on my bed for another hour or so reading a novel. Then I come down to eat my breakfast which usually consists of two slices of toasted bread with butter and blueberry or strawberry jam. Currently trying to find black cherry jam.

 

 Along with the above food I watch news on the TV or sometimes a series. Then I clean the house which takes approximately 1 or 2 hours, depending upon how diligent I feel or how dirty the house has become!! Next I jog and do some stretching for about an hour at most. After sweating (although I do not sweat a lot) I take a shower. By this time it may be 5 or 6 pm and I am pretty famished now. So I have my lunch again along with the evening news or some series.

 

After my late lunch I would probably watch a movie that I bought on DVD or some series. Then if I am hungry or have an appetite I will munch on snacks followed by fruits. At home the amount of fruit is never less than 3 types, once I counted ten types of fruits. Oranges, apples, guavas, pineapple, durian, bananas, pomegranate, strawberry, rose apple, and kiwis.

 

By this time it is about 9 pm and I move about a bit - perhaps playing with my black bodied and brown faced doggie which is already about 11 years old and walk about a bit in the garden. The night finds me at my PCs surfing the net for my favorite celebrities or just reading some fan fiction or news. Now I like watching Youtube, it's got everything that entertains me!! Music videos, scenes from TV series, funny home videos, etc.

 

I go up to my room at around midnight or 1 am and read for another 1 or 2 hours depending upon the grip that the book has on me. I remember reading one novel until 5 am and thought to myself if my eyes do not automatically close by itself I could read until I see the morning light.

 

So you see my typical Saturday begins and ends in the same way - in bed with a book. What a mundane life, eh!? But I am happy and relaxed to be home (although i don't like cleaning the house so much but once I start I quite enjoy the calmness it gives me and also feels like an achievement to make something cleaner).

 

Oh yeah forgot to tell you that I pray before my head hits my pillow too.