The Ever After....

I seriously dont know what to write but I know I want to write. If only wishes were horses...we actually dont have to Sigh, but we can actually fly! I know, I know its totally blauh, this line, but it is 16:38pm on a hot sunday afternoon and well, what else do you except?!!

Anyways, to mundane diary like things for a wee bit - Filmfare came and went. And with it was one magical moment too. Sometimes, we think it will happen to us. Sometimes we make it happen to us - the magic, magic! But there are other times, when it just whizzes past us when we are looking the other side, so we dont even know whether the spell was cast or not! Have you ever had such a moment before? Any of the above three, I mean.

The exact sensation of a 'magical moment' would go like this. The first realisation that strikes you is when the 'it' actually happens, TIME stops. The second realisation is even if there are 50 people around you, NOONE exists - in cinema parlance, the motion is called FREEZE. Everything moves in high speed - read slow motion (ha! What a paradox!) The third realisation is even you will be doing things on auto-control, as if someone else is controlling your actions & reactions from somewhere else - all senses except the eye-sight is focussed and helps you to move about doing whatever this force in control wants you to do at that exact moment. The fourth (if any) realisation is THE THING itself - the magic. And that is an indescribable moment. So will save it for you to savour it soon. And of course, the Sigh that follows will only mean one wants the moment to continue like a fairy tale - happily ever after...!

I've had some exceptional magical moments in my life - the trick I guess is to actually treat most moments as magical so our daily life seems exceptional! Lofty I know, but here's a quote from one of my favorite people and Internationally renowned cinematographer Santosh Sivan on how he sees his everyday life.

"I wake up in the morning and look at everything as if they are all new!"

Brilliant, just like his work. Escapist the cynic would say - but hey, its attitude that determines which side of the net we are playing on, right?! So, here's to more of new-ness, to positively good times and of course, lots of magical moments that will end in a happily ever after...! After all, Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty had it that way, so why not us, eh?!