I have noticed the habit of us Indians to romanticize struggle :) ( i can say indians cause thats the only breed i have known :P)
have you heard your grand mom saying those were the days where there was no gas , we used to cook in the traditional coal 'chulah' and now you have electric stove and microwave :P
or you parents saying we had only one phone in the entire colony!!
or your school history teacher saying remember the struggle of independence
or a successful entrepreneur or successful actor would get into flashback and talk about his days of no money or days of living out of wada pav :P
and our Hindi films like Om Shanti Om where srks current life is all about the struggle in his past life ...
it sometimes make me wonder what is it that we really value ? the hardships or the challenge , or just a sense of achievement that what you have today is because of everything that happened yesterday...it could be true...we will only value our today when it becomes our yesterday :)
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Theres a great thought, now!!!
It's more like romanticizing the "past",
Like I miss my school days, when it was so easy to excel ... now that I think about it!
or wow, I had friends I could dance with in the horriblest way at parties and they would still not disown me!
I may romanticize struggle, but for me its more of a nightmare I don t want to live again, Like I can hardly imagine going through the 12 th standard science year again!
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Hmm ... some of my most loved movies are definitely based on this. But on romanticizing struggles that lead to something at the end. I'm talking about Shawshank Redemption and Pursuit of Happiness.
thts quite true.....we do tend to do that.....but i guess we wil be telling our kids and grandkids the same thing a few decades later.....
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