Cloud Atlas

This movie...I've gotta say it's simply beautiful. Maybe it's the music, maybe it's the chemistry in all the scenes...I don't know. It's just simply touching and I am deeply moved. 

It talks about how past, present and our future self is all linked. How every act of evil, or kindness affects ourselves or people in the future. This movie however requires one to be very open-minded, to perceive what the movie has got to tell, and offer you. 

Makes me wonder sometimes, about the act and role we play in the continually traversing universe. How tiny we are, and to quote the movie, "no matter what you do it'll only amount to a single drop in a limitless ocean..."

"...what is an ocean but a multitude of drops?" And then again, we might not seem all that small after all sometimes...because we, probably mean the universe to ourselves. It's our life that periodically undergoes zooming in and out, and that's probably how our lives are. Sometimes we're just that tiny little being in the grand scheme of things, nothing ever matters because it JUST DOESN'T MATTER; or how our actions dictates our lives and how it evolves from there and it means the world to ourselves. Courage, kindness, forgiveness etc. 

Ultimately we are all suckers who just yearn for happiness. It is in times when you deemed yourself to be a nobody, then suddenly it seemed like you owned the world; or put aside all the personal logic and the what-if's, and go after the things that truly mean the world to you. 

Some may or may not have realized this, but in my life - I have this old photo. Sometimes this is all I need. It's always there, clanged by my rough hands - but it is all in that picture, my reminders, the happiness and that is all I need. It's the memories, the best of all the lot of them. They really do play like old movie tapes, the sights, the sounds, and all the feelings. Its like moments like now, that if I were myself in the future, I'd like to bring myself, if I ever get lost, you, me, back to this moment - where I'm a nobody, but I think I have the world already.