I recently got a critic that my blog has become a movie blog. And I have taken it very very seriously. Aa ha!! And as you would see, I will henceforth make sure such comments never come this blog's way. Far from it!!..
So question is, its like a survey, what among the following can make maximum impact on your life, your way of thinking and your perception of the world:
books, movies, interactions and social life, loss or gain of a relations, news papers, teachers, schooling and bringing up (parents and family etc), music, profession...
The impact each of them can create, does change with the age. At 16 probably what changed your personality may be far different from what can make you think now. There are more things one can list down here. But above could be few things that have made impact on me.
But above mentioned things are really a mixed bag. And I give a clear preferance to few over the others in the following sense: It could be very natural that, the things that happen specific to your life affect you. Like losing a parent when you are 5 years old or landing in a totally wrong profession and realising it at the age of 35. Its pretty much natural to get affected by these. Essentially to say that, your own life is meant to teach you things and change you. But if a book, or a music piece or movie or a peice of news in a news paper changes your whole life, then really the credit goes to the people who created the art. Just writing a poem and changing the whole country's way of thinking, or creating a magical symphony and making lifes of people move along with it. Thats something exceptional. For years I felt that media can never affect me. I would read or listen for fun of it. But I was so wrong. Today I rate the above mentioned things in the following order of importance on the scale of 1-10.
1. books 7
2. movies (here comes the repeated theme...but ...) 8 (there only are a couple which make the impact but yes, 8)
3. interactions and social life 4
4. loss or gain of a relations 6
5. news papers 3
6. teachers 6
7. schooling and bringing up (parents and family etc) 7
8. music 7
9. profession 6
So question is, its like a survey, what among the following can make maximum impact on your life, your way of thinking and your perception of the world:
books, movies, interactions and social life, loss or gain of a relations, news papers, teachers, schooling and bringing up (parents and family etc), music, profession...
The impact each of them can create, does change with the age. At 16 probably what changed your personality may be far different from what can make you think now. There are more things one can list down here. But above could be few things that have made impact on me.
But above mentioned things are really a mixed bag. And I give a clear preferance to few over the others in the following sense: It could be very natural that, the things that happen specific to your life affect you. Like losing a parent when you are 5 years old or landing in a totally wrong profession and realising it at the age of 35. Its pretty much natural to get affected by these. Essentially to say that, your own life is meant to teach you things and change you. But if a book, or a music piece or movie or a peice of news in a news paper changes your whole life, then really the credit goes to the people who created the art. Just writing a poem and changing the whole country's way of thinking, or creating a magical symphony and making lifes of people move along with it. Thats something exceptional. For years I felt that media can never affect me. I would read or listen for fun of it. But I was so wrong. Today I rate the above mentioned things in the following order of importance on the scale of 1-10.
1. books 7
2. movies (here comes the repeated theme...but ...) 8 (there only are a couple which make the impact but yes, 8)
3. interactions and social life 4
4. loss or gain of a relations 6
5. news papers 3
6. teachers 6
7. schooling and bringing up (parents and family etc) 7
8. music 7
9. profession 6
Comments
the ranking for me for the most is bwt 4-5. Except may be parents and newspaper...