Cherish Yourself

She made love to a man to protect the love of her life,

She could feel the many wounds that grew all over her- pain, guilt, anger and insecurity,

But she would go on to trade for her joy, her happiness, her freedom,

She wished she could rid herself of the wounds and choose only the pleasures of their consequnce,

She only tried to wash away the filth, but couldnt, as she scrubbed herself she could feel and it is the felling that she wanted to wash away...

These lines describe the life of an Artist in West Germany, a woman whose love for acting and her lover- a writer whose life was under the scrutiny of a repressing Nationalisitic East German Government, and very poignantly showcase the many emotions an artisit goes through when interpreted and perceived as against the tide...the lives of others chronicles their story beautifully...

A message I recieved from having watched this movie is that there is a force deeper than the physical wounds one goes through if the love for ones existance is stronger...when as an actor one gets described as being real an actor finds his nirvana, similarly when a taxi driver or an autorickshaw driver gets spoken to with respect and is made included in the boring tedious grind of traffic jams and suspecting customers he feels at peace...the pursuit of happiness and meaning is eternal but the definition of one' joy or happiness is changing everyday...When one starts living to fulfill the definitions of others happiness's they are loosing themselves and never closer to what their definition of it was...the value attached to all things around becomes relative to the value attached by all and not by the self, again devaluing happens...the love and desire to find oneself becomes diluted as one grows up! As a child people around you start influencing you, happiness becomes a better toy, a beautiful house, successful parents etc and by the time one defines their own defintion it becomes a combi of all other definitions...hehehehe


I dont know wot it means to any of you, all i know is the core to my happiness is hidden in essence in the subjectline :)