The Merging of Ideas...

You know what you think. You know your own ideas. You know what the world thinks. You know the world's ideas. Its when your ideas and the world's ideas have to work together in harmony, comes the little line of understanding.

Its like, when two different colours have to be merged in a painting. The line which both colours cross to reach out to each other and merge into something new. Just before they merge, is the point of uncertainty. The point where it is unknown what new colour might emerge out of the combination. Before that, it is only speculation. One can only guess. Once they do merge, it is an entirely new colour, which may or may not have been expected. It is an idea of its own, the grey area.

Before venturing forth into the realization of one's ideas, one can only speculate how they will merge/ work alongside the ideas of the world. It becomes clear only when one actually implements those ideas. And the unevenness, the little patches in the grey area, are covered by human nature. People can behave absolutely unexpectedly. Human nature is capable of giving some really good surprises.

A small gesture...

I was watching a movie in a theatre yesterday, when something caught my eye. During the interval, I saw a family (mother, father, daughter and son). The kids might have been around eight and ten years old. The siblings were jumping about having fun, the elder brother bossing the younger sister. I'm not really sure what lead to it, but I saw the mother slap her daughter. Both the children were standing in the middle of the aisle, and some of the people around had noticed what had happened, though they were pretending that they hadn't. The little girl was trying very hard not to cry in front of so many strangers. Its pretty understandable what she must be feeling at that moment. Though what happened next really moved me. Her elder brother came over to her, hugged her tightly, and gave her the "Its ok. I understand. It'll be alright" look.

This incident might not interest a lot of people. But somehow, I was really moved by that little gesture of love and understanding which the little boy showed. The connection which these things build between any two individuals goes a very long way. A deep sense of care instilled in that little boy, is something which his younger sister will always remember, along with the fact that she can always depend on him to take care of her.