Short term memory loss !?!

Watched GHAJINI today.. Liked it quite much.. Adding to the line of Aamir khan movies :D

Anyone who has watched it would agree it is a kind of movie that has an impact on you for quite a worthwhile time.. However what struck me most was how an audience would find it so different to see someone with a so-called short term memory loss problem. 50 first dates is one of my favourites, the one in which this girl has a 1-day long memory retention power. It did not strike me then, but ofcourse there is a very strong social message attached to Ghajini.. which compels me to find me and you too, just like the protagonist, in a way. Sometimes, we are so touched by some issues, emotions n stuff that are on the screen. We suddenly begin to feel for it so strongly. We hate the particular situation or evil thing portrayed in a story so much. And then ... a day gone, n we get busy with our lives so much, we can't see how the issue effects us. Infact, in a day or two, it doesn't even remotely appear to touch our lives. And anything that's not directly effecting me, doesn't really seem to have a long term influence on me :-?

Doesn't it seem a little like even we are patients of the same DISEASE of having a short term memory? We see child labor everyday, we see all sorts of corrupt things every minute ( we are part of it too many-a-times), we feel so touched n charged when we watch a TZP, or a Phir Milenge, and then the memory is lost. We don't seem to remember what we have seen; we don't even seem to know it's happening around us. I feel worried when i know i am part of a society that is suffering from a short term memory loss. Aren't all of us patients of the disease too?


Does anything seem to make a difference to us? Child labor? Child abuse? Women trafficking? Poverty? Disability? Even if any of these make a difference to us, am i doing anything for it? And if i am not, do i even deserve to be a part of a place where human beings, with the same senses that i am gifted with, are living in devastated , deprived and unjust conditions?

I donno, i guess. I just am sure of the fact that i am simply doing nothing for any issue, and i don't see how little acts can add up and make a difference someday.. I am not sure if whatever is being done in any corners of the wide, huge world, is sufficient enough to make a difference. I am just dawned with a little horrifying realization that i, like a million others, might as well be counted as a patient of a short term memory loss medical problem.




And we still find it amazing to see the aamir khan character on the screen. Some watched with their mouths wide open how the character could not remember anything after every 15 minutes. I'd still appreciate the character. At least he tried like hell to keep his memory intact. We don't even care to be cured.

The most amazing part is that we don't even know that we are patients. We even forget that too /)
huh!

And still, we would prefer calling ourselves superior to any other animal.


I don't see how we really are :-??