Getting Inspired, Gathering the Courage: Dead Poets Society

The spirit of the poet is free, indomitable, invincible, unwavering, unconventional and yet romantic, impulsive, passionate and quixotic.

Anybody who can understand the nuances of life is a poet at heart.  One needn't write couplets or verses to be one. Your heart should rhyme with your mind and spirit, you will be the poet of first order my friend.

There is a little bit of poet in each one of us. But unfortunately it’s dying. And that’s what the movie Dead Poets Society is about. As much as this movie inspired me, it depressed me too. I cried watching  it. It is one of those movies which inspire you to liberate your minds, expand the horizon of your thinking, have the confidence to think differently, freely, explore your thoughts and have the faith in yourselves, your ways.

This movie teaches, motivates and gives courage to live in synchronization with the world through your unsynchronized ways and thoughts. It asks you not to not follow the ways of the world, but to not lose yours in trying to keeping up with them.

The major obstacles in thinking without stinting are –

1. Our own minds blockage. Its own walls, created over time, blocking it from exploring the unexplored.

2. The environment we are brought up in, the society we live in, which doesn’t want to break away from the conventional ways, because then, it might lose its power over people’s lives.

3. Our parents and teachers who have this strong need of being affiliated to a society and follow its ways to make it easier to live for themselves and us.

But only if God really wanted to make life that easy and simple to live!

Why do you think we all have different brains? Why do you think all our five senses do not sense and perceive the same thing in the same way as others?

There is a reason we all are different, we all think differently. There is a reason we all are living different lives and don’t have same situations to face. Because he wants us to do everything in our own special ways. Every person has a different way of dealing with things. True that we feel that somebody else might handle a particular situation much better than us but may be that situation or problem is not meant to be handled in that person’s way!

So instead of thinking what the other person might do or what ‘should be’ the best way to handle your problems, you’d rather start doing what ‘your’ instinct or heart tells you.

Because in the end, it’s always right! ;)