Sadist!

One fine night last week, sparing a few hours of my sleep, i saw an intriguing movie, Babel.
Babel stands for the ancient city of Babylon in the Hebrew Bible.

Once upon a time, few people decided to build a tower, known as the "tower of Babel", to reach heaven. This apparently angered God, who punished the peope involved in the project by making them speak different languages and seperating to the different parts of the world.

"Good Lord", wasn't that nice of him.

Nope this has nothing to do with the movie, its just a piece of mythological history i had read somewhere. Probably the movie has just the similarity of people speaking different languages, from japamese to morocan, english, mexican, and even the sign language.

It basically is a movie about how the actions of one may affect another, who might not be even aware of the existence of the other. A kind of "Butterfly Effect" which states that the flapping of wings of butterfly in Brazil may cause a Tornado in Japan. A story that moves across four countries and people of different races, mistrust ruling among them. Nominated for the oscars, worth it, a bit like last year's winner Crash.

But this post is not a movie review, its about the "knowledge" of not knowing of the fact that each and every action one carries out affects another. Some of whom we don't know, and some whom we know, and value more than ourselves!

Sometimes, we want to make ourselves believe that its just us who are being harmed, but in reality seldom do we realise that the wounds inflicted on others are much deeper and much dificult to fill.

And there are some who feel, let anyone be happy or unhappy, I come first.The "I-centric" people. They ruin this planet, we say. But delve deeper. So are you and I, and everyone until the day comes when the wounded one is you. But does that restrain us from repeating the mistake again. Never. Now its more of a sadistic pleasure!