1.A toddler learning to walk .
No matter how many times she falls down , she is never discouraged or loses the determination to try again.
2.A kid mingling with his friends.
He doesnt care about the caste . creed , religion or social status of his friend .
In fact all kids are blissfully unaware of discriminations like these until the elders point it out to them.
3.A child asking questions about every single thing around him.
We live in era where we have information at our finger tips.
But do we have inquisitiveness to know ?
4.Observe a child when she laughs , or cries.
When she laughs , you KNOW she's happy and when she cries you KNOW for sure that she's sad.
There's no question of thinking "Is she laughing because she really is happy ?"
The idea of not showing what she feels simply never occurs to the child.
5.A kid fighting with his classmate one day . And the next day , they behave as though there was no fight at all .How many adults around us have the "maturity" (what an ironic word) to give up a fight so easily ?
A child has no ego , no sense of superiority .Playing with his classmate is what matters .Not proving to him who's fault it was .
6.A child only does what she likes to do .Hence she likes whatever she does.
7.A child loves with all his heart - fully and completely.
When a child shows love , that is the most unaluterated thing on the planet.
(un -"adult" -erated)
8.Take a child near a tiger and she will probably want to play with the tiger.
Ask a kid to dance in front of a group of people , and he will probably do so without giving a damn as to what people will think about him.
Most of the fear we develop as adults is INSTILLED into us - not inborn.
9.Children always speak their heart out .
If they want something , they ask it . If they are happy , they show it . If they are angry , they dont hold back while fighting.
I wonder how and when, in the course of becoming adults , they learn to bottle up their feelings.
10.When you go speak to a child , you absolutely need not worry about what you wear , what you speak or how you behave .
The only class of non judgemental humans you can easily find are children .
11. Seen a child playing a game and her mother calling her to come and have lunch ? The child is so completely immersed in the game that , at that instant , nothing else but the game matters.
Most adults are so busy in either regretting the past or fretting about the future , that they dont even know what the present looks like .
"Being in the moment " is an attribute that comes effortlessly to children.
"Life is not child's play" , they say .
Perhaps that is why we find it so hard.
Because we dont play it fully and completely like a child playing his game ..
11/11/11
Eleven take-away’s parcelled from “Ratatouille”
1. The obvious moral described throughout the movie -“Anyone can cook”.
A very nice explanation given to this statement at the end of the movie: “Not everyone can become a great artist. But a great artist can come from anywhere”
2. A very flattering description of humans given by the rat, Remy , goes like this :
“There’s something about them .. They discover.. they create ..”
What a unique way of presenting humanity – through the eyes of someone who’s not human!!
So caught up are we in evaluating ourselves based on society’s definition of success that we don’t appreciate the greatest gift god has bestowed upon us – that of “creation”.
“Creation” need not mean we dive into rocket science and come up with a complicated formula . Haven’t we tried our hand in the kitchen and “created “ a delicious dish ? Haven’t we told a joke that “created” laughter around us?
Why , then , do we reprimand ourselves severely for the happiness we feel out of these everyday creations?
3.While raising children , along with the food , parents also feed them dreams about what they want the children to become in life. As long as the child’s dream co – incides with the parents, life is pretty . Often, when it does not, it leads to turbulence.
The dilemma faced by Remy while asked to choose between family and his dreams is brought out beautifully with a statement he makes “I cannot choose between two halves of myself “.
4. “Each flavour was totally unique. But combine one flavour with another and something new was created”
Underneath the surface of this seemingly shallow statement lies a thought so profound that any amount of elaboration cannot capture its beauty.
Try replacing “flavour” with “idea”.
A simple example – R K Laxman’s “Common man” . He blended his unique talent of cartooning with a few portions of humour and seasoned it with a pinch of day to day affairs that connected with every layman. And voila ! A successful new recipe created.
As Remy describes it with fervour “Now, imagine every great taste in the world being combined into infinite combinations . Taste that no one has tried yet. Discoveries to be made !!”
5.A dialogue from the movie :
“Food always comes to those who love to cook”
A quote by Paulo Coelho in “The Alchemist” :
“When you truly want something , all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it”
6.Another dialogue:
“All we do is take .I’m tired of taking. I want to MAKE things .I want to add something to this world.”
What a inspiring thought !
We can sit our whole lives complaining about what life has given us.
Or , we can ask ourselves right now “What have I given to life ? “
7.A very interesting argument between father and son deserves some highlight:
“This is the way things are. You can’t change nature.”
“Change IS nature, Dad. The part that we can influence. And it starts when we decide “
“Where are you going ?”
“With luck , forward”
8. “You've been playing without an opponent. Which is, as you may have guessed,
against the rules.”
What fun in playing a game if you’re not up against a worthy opponent ?
9.Gusteau , the chef in the movie, speaks passionately about food “Good food is like music you can taste. Colour you can smell “.
The best justice you can do to a good meal is to savour its taste. Food , very much like life , is not meant to be hurried through. Enjoy each bite fully and completely without worrying where the next morsel will come from.
10. “In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.
We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism which is fun to write and to read”
What can I say ? Finding a positive quality in something and valuing it above the negative quality is a gift very few have.
11.One of the ending lines in the climax goes like this:
“ Last night I experienced something new, an extraordinary meal from a singularly unexpected source”
Upon reaching the climax of my article , here’s what I have to say – Last night I experienced something new , an extraordinary meal with food for thought from a singularly unexpected movie.
And by re creating that meal I hope to serve those hungry for some fresh “perspective”
A very nice explanation given to this statement at the end of the movie: “Not everyone can become a great artist. But a great artist can come from anywhere”
2. A very flattering description of humans given by the rat, Remy , goes like this :
“There’s something about them .. They discover.. they create ..”
What a unique way of presenting humanity – through the eyes of someone who’s not human!!
So caught up are we in evaluating ourselves based on society’s definition of success that we don’t appreciate the greatest gift god has bestowed upon us – that of “creation”.
“Creation” need not mean we dive into rocket science and come up with a complicated formula . Haven’t we tried our hand in the kitchen and “created “ a delicious dish ? Haven’t we told a joke that “created” laughter around us?
Why , then , do we reprimand ourselves severely for the happiness we feel out of these everyday creations?
3.While raising children , along with the food , parents also feed them dreams about what they want the children to become in life. As long as the child’s dream co – incides with the parents, life is pretty . Often, when it does not, it leads to turbulence.
The dilemma faced by Remy while asked to choose between family and his dreams is brought out beautifully with a statement he makes “I cannot choose between two halves of myself “.
4. “Each flavour was totally unique. But combine one flavour with another and something new was created”
Underneath the surface of this seemingly shallow statement lies a thought so profound that any amount of elaboration cannot capture its beauty.
Try replacing “flavour” with “idea”.
A simple example – R K Laxman’s “Common man” . He blended his unique talent of cartooning with a few portions of humour and seasoned it with a pinch of day to day affairs that connected with every layman. And voila ! A successful new recipe created.
As Remy describes it with fervour “Now, imagine every great taste in the world being combined into infinite combinations . Taste that no one has tried yet. Discoveries to be made !!”
5.A dialogue from the movie :
“Food always comes to those who love to cook”
A quote by Paulo Coelho in “The Alchemist” :
“When you truly want something , all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it”
6.Another dialogue:
“All we do is take .I’m tired of taking. I want to MAKE things .I want to add something to this world.”
What a inspiring thought !
We can sit our whole lives complaining about what life has given us.
Or , we can ask ourselves right now “What have I given to life ? “
7.A very interesting argument between father and son deserves some highlight:
“This is the way things are. You can’t change nature.”
“Change IS nature, Dad. The part that we can influence. And it starts when we decide “
“Where are you going ?”
“With luck , forward”
8. “You've been playing without an opponent. Which is, as you may have guessed,
against the rules.”
What fun in playing a game if you’re not up against a worthy opponent ?
9.Gusteau , the chef in the movie, speaks passionately about food “Good food is like music you can taste. Colour you can smell “.
The best justice you can do to a good meal is to savour its taste. Food , very much like life , is not meant to be hurried through. Enjoy each bite fully and completely without worrying where the next morsel will come from.
10. “In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.
We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism which is fun to write and to read”
What can I say ? Finding a positive quality in something and valuing it above the negative quality is a gift very few have.
11.One of the ending lines in the climax goes like this:
“ Last night I experienced something new, an extraordinary meal from a singularly unexpected source”
Upon reaching the climax of my article , here’s what I have to say – Last night I experienced something new , an extraordinary meal with food for thought from a singularly unexpected movie.
And by re creating that meal I hope to serve those hungry for some fresh “perspective”
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