The curious case of Benjamin Button

At times we feel our lives are so complicated. We don't feel happy and contended with what we have. Our mind wanders - always asking questions like - "what's next"!!

Though it seems very unpredictable, we know a lot about what is it going to be like tomorrow. Well not exactly true, but we know that we will be a day older tomorrow and more as the days go by. Many a times we wish if time could just stop, if we would never grow old! But I never ever in my life pondered what would really happen if I never grew old (leave alone getting younger). "The curious case of Benjamin Button" - this movie made me ponder that!

How Daisy and Benjamin were both so helpless. If I had to compare, I thought it was Benjamin who was even more helpless. First getting born like an 80 year old - he couldn't enjoy his childhood like other children do. But he said OLD AGE wasn't that bad. It would be unfair to say something about this since I haven't had an experience yet - but still I would agree with him. It isn't that bad if it comes at the right age! But what about him, who was born old and died an infant! When he married Daisy and had their baby girl, he didn't want to get any younger. Instead he wanted to grow old with his daughter. Could you imagine someone more helpless that him? He had to leave Daisy - the love of his life, his soulmate, his wife. Daisy suffered too - because she loved the strange Benjamin Button! He made the right choice, Daisy wouldn't have been able to brought up the two of them - their daughter and him. He was a strange miracle, not everyone couldn't understand. I felt the most helpless and emotional moment was when he died. He was an infant in Daisy's lap. He couldn't speak, but he knew who he was, who Daisy was.

Then I wonder he still lived so many years. Because there are people like Queenie, who love unconditionally. His own father thought he was monster and abandoned him. He was ugly - but still one day old child craving for the love and warmth of a mother. Queenie gave those to him, she made him live, she loved him and he loved her back.

It's the love that drives this world, that drives us. We have so many things in our lives we take for granted. We take for granted that we would lead a normal life, we take for granted that we would own many worldly treasures, we take for granted that people around us would behave well. This list can never end. Leading the normal lives, the number of things we take for granted keep increasing. In all this, we forget that we came into this world empty handed and that's how we are gonna leave this world. Lets not take anything for granted. Lets thank God for what we are, for what we have.......