2020: A year which got misinterpreted.

I have seen people saying that 2020 is the worst year.

Is that so?

I used to think the same too, until that point where I realized that it is the other way around.

That  2020 is one of the best years indeed because reality is always harsh and bitter than our imagination. And when reality hits hard in order to ignore the mental trauma of accepting the truth, it's a human instinct to not accept that and remain in our imaginary world by blaming others to be mentally safe. 

That's exactly what seems to be happening here with 2020.

2020 indeed made us all prisoners in our own homes, it even closed all our doors to interact with people and forced us to shut everyone out who was so close to us all of sudden. We were left with little choices to make and more precautions to take, for us and for the collective good of humankind as well.

This was the first time that we were given the chance to sit at home in the comfort of our couches, doing nothing, and still save the world. And we did it too.

But the aftereffect of this was devastating, suddenly taken away from our social life and friend circles impacted so many people and even made them victims of depression.

And that's exactly when we started pointing fingers towards 2020 for being a lame year.

You know why most people become depressed? 

At some point or the other, the truth is that 2020 really showed us who is real and who will remain real forever...

Who actually cared for us and who were pretending it all...

What was actually meant for us and what never was...

It showed us the bitter truth of life that everyone starts forgetting you once we stop meeting them in person. And for most of us, this lesson was a huge one to be accustomed to in such a short span of 8 months and it did break us, every single one of us.

But let's keep our grudges aside and try to bring out the positive in it. It's almost the end of December and we are almost done with 2020. Looking back to this extraordinary year, which we will all remember till the end of our lives, 

I am a little bit more optimistic towards life at this point, 

I am proud that I made it through this hard time even though broken, I am never shattered,

I know whom to trust and whom not to anymore,

I know who loves me for real and who never did,

I know time and distance play a major role in every relationship and I learned to value my parents more for all the things they have done for me and loving me unconditionally regardless of me being anywhere in the world.

Maybe 2020 was harsh, but it surely taught us some serious life lessons indeed.

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Bye Bye 2020

Thank you for the lessons, I will always cherish you!

#Cheerachi 

The Subtle Art Of Not Giving a Fuck

Book: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

Author: Mark Mansion

Language: English

Pic Credits: Dheera Sasidharan (@itscheerachi)

I was not a fan of non-fiction till the day I pick this one for a read! I was always skeptical about myself being engaged in a non-fiction read this much. I even doubted if I have that power to understand all these. If you can relate to this, then here is your solution to the problem!

💥"A counterintuitive approach to living a good life" as the tagline says is the first thing that struck me!

💥"THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A FUCK" was actually a life-changing read for me. A lot of my fellow readers do have extreme opposite thoughts on the book, but I found it enlightening!

💥The first 20 pages are like an "entrance test", if you actually pass that test and move on to the next chapter, then there my friend is where the magic of this wonderful writing resides! Most of the people I have known either get bored somewhere between those 20 pages or just hesitate to pick it up for a read in the first place. Either way you are missing a great read.

💥There is no such thing as "not giving a fuck", we actually give way more fucks than we are meant to. So this book is simply about choosing those important things to give a Fuck about in life! 🤗 This is how I can literally summarize the book.

💥The language and the writing style is so simple that even a beginner can understand it without second thoughts.
The best thing that I found about the book is that it actually improved my general knowledge on certain subjects via stories that I would have never known if I wouldn't have chosen this book. Forever thankful to the author for this great treasure!

#Cheerachi

The Kite Runner

Book: The Kite Runner

Author: Khaled Hosseini

Language: English

After completing "And the Mountains Echoed" I felt the sudden urge of reading this one, as I have heard a lot about this one within that short period.
I kept on searching for it everywhere and finally found this little bundle of joy in Lulu Mall. 💫🤗
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💥As I believed Khalid Hosseini will never disappoint me and that turned out to be true. This is one of the best reads I have ever had so far, the pictures it paints in the readers' mind will keep on haunting them for a while. I could always feel Aamir and Hassan within me. 
The way our little insecurities turn out to be life-changing decisions for others is beautifully portrayed in the book.

💥Eventually, it teaches you every crime in the world is a kind of theft in itself, 
" When you kill a man, you steal a life" 
And if you go on thinking about it further you could find undying examples for it in real life!
And you will agree at last, that every crime is theft in disguise!

💥Like every other Khaled Hosseini book, this one is also a bit emotional, that it will surely let you sigh at times and also remind you that not every story has a happy ending, sometimes the end won't hurt much is the only thing we can hope for.
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"For you a thousand times over"
Is a line that will keep echoing in my mind forever!

Pic Credits: Dheera Sasidharan (@itscheerachi)

#Cheerachi

Extraction

Pic Credits: Google

Today I got to see this Netflix film, Extraction, and that hit me hard...

Like I always wondered why those super quality action scenes and superhero movies never happened to come up in India? Why we always have to settle with Bahubali and Mahabharata? But this movie...I guess it gave me some answers...answers that are hard to digest but are the truth of the Indian Film Industry! I remember those trolls who say If Spiderman was made in India he could have long gone dead due to the electrical wires which go past every nook and corner of the country. And I guess it is the same with the roads as well...and the traffic...and the busy streets! We could have never shot a successful car chase without a man or a stray animal coming in between! That's it...that's the way our cities are molded. Be it the most rural Indian cities or the most urban metro cities like Mumbai! India has this undying love for stay animals.😂 

Coming back to the film, Chris Hemsworth is a brand in himself I must admit! Amidst the fact the story is happening in India and Bangladesh, he gave it an unmatchable quality that most of our native Actors could have failed to deliver at some point or the other ( Yes, he does remind me that Avengers is never gonna be the same without him). Randeep Hooda has been exceptionally well as he always sets his limits high. And if you ever feel the film disturbing then the only thing you gotta remember is the place it is happening! 

The one and the only drawback I felt is the disturbing and noisy backdrop. Then again, this is the way it is. Films are the reflection of the society in which they are being made. So to the people who don't really appreciate this film, it's not the movie, It's the reflection of your own reality you are being distributed of!

  #Cheerachi

For more details visit:

Extraction movie review & film summary (2020) | Roger Ebert

Extraction (2020) - IMDb