How to stay young...an excerpt ( Courtesy: blogger.com )

I found this particularly very interesting because of two reasons, one is I like to stay young and the second that everyone wants to stay young although they might never have really given a thought or effort to stay so. So here are some quick tips to stay young !!! Remember each point is worth reading twice.

• Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay "them "
  

• Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
  

• Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. "An idle mind is the devil's workshop." And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.
  

• Enjoy the simple things.
  

• Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
  

• The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
  

• Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets,keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
  

• Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable,improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
  

• Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.
  

• Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity. AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

I purged my soul yet again !!!

I am not a movie buff by any remote possibility but when I do see movies, movies which are really good, I'm so immersed, the profoundness of the film just stays with me quite long. I have started writing on this blog again after such a long time and such procrastination that if there is anything called delayed procrastination then you can see that in me. I know that writing such things about yourselves will have an impact deep enough to make you believe that you are a procrastinator , but hell no I'm not. This was just me before I started typing this on to monitor.

So now, you might all be thinking why it started with me not being a movie buff and leading to something to do with procrastination. Thats the reason I pull myself back to writing what I wanted to in this post.

I have seen this movie called " Taare Zameen Par " produced, directed and cast as well by Aamir Khan just yesterday. The three hours I spent in the theater was such an exhilarating experience that I became a kid once again just like the school boy Ishaan in the movie. And when you come out of the theater you will feel so fresh that you are empty. You feel that life should just be that picture perfect. But life is all about picking those bright colors from amongst all the others. Aamir Khan's movies are just those bright colors picked out of bland set of movies for which it has become a norm to have an awful exaggeration of violence, skin show and teen love. Every time I see an Aamir Khan's movie I come out of the theater with an air of freshness, with all new enthusiasm, an inspiration worth having all your life...Dil Chahta Hai, Lagaan, Rang De Basanti and now Taare Zameen Par.

So how do you carry all this renewed enthu and the freshness for a long time is the question. One thing is to start living in that world but keeping yourselves away from a point of no return where you are so overwhelmed by the filmi style of living that people start believing you are crazy. Another way is to just be apathetic to whatever happens on the screen and live your life. I am leaving this post incomplete coz I do not have any idea of what more to write. I will try to keep adding more.