It took me back few days down the memory lane. A kannada movie named Koti released few days starring Daali Dhananjaya. The movie is basically about a lower class guy, who tries to attain a happy and comfortable life for him and his family. That's all I know about that movie. If you are retired from watching movie at theatre like me, or watch one or other movie like one in Sankranti and other in Deepavali, you too probably wouldn't know much about this movie either as It didn't had any big promotion events or such. I was randomly watching YouTube and it had a video of an interviewer asking, what would you do if you get One crore now? At this day and time, It's almost impossible to make a feature length movie under one crore. Movie making has become the costliest business industry in our country. You win big or lose big and straight one way ticket to C/o footpath. Of course there are multiple movies that made more than ₹1,000 Crores this year. That proves one thing, India is not a poor country and you ca definitely make a ₹1,000/- crore movie with proper attempt. But the number of people that disappeared trying to do so is Error 404: Data not found. Coming back to that YouTube interview, few said, they would buy car, start own business, buy an home and settle all the loans etc. As per one of the reports from Deccan Herald newspaper, India's top 1% of rich population holds, 40% of country's wealth. It means if India is a classroom with ₹100 rupees, 99 students has ₹60 altogether. That's not even ₹1/per student and it's definitely concerning. Earning one crore in a lifetime is a dream milestone achievement for many of us, correction , all of us. Considering the inflation and all, imagine an average household income of a middle class family is nearly ₹30,000/- for a family of 3 people. Hypothetically speaking, let's say, a family of three, where both husband and wife are earning, and they earn together ₹30,000/- pm and assuming they have saved each rupee assuming they don't need food, shelter and other basic needs, they would almost need to work for 28 years. Hypothetically speaking, let's say I have One Crore with me now. Even if I have that, I am already poor than several million people in my country. But I'm richer than crores of people in the same country. So, should I be happy about the fact that I have One Crore, or should I be sad that even if I have One Crore, I will just be rich for the majority of the country but a poor fellow when compared to Richie Rich type of people. It's a glass half full, half empty approach. I also thought what would I do, If I had One Crore with me right now. I had various plans to spend or save or invest my hypothetical One Crore. There are many things I thought I would do If I accidentally had One Crore. I stopped for a while and thought about something other than this. Wait, before I had this hypothetical One Crore, Was I happy? Or the arrival of this hypothetical One Crore made me happy? I think I was happy and after attaining the hypothetical One Crore I would be happier. Let's say, I will have One Crore for one year and it's not spent till another 365 days. So, for rest of the year, would that One Crore stop me from being sad for any reason? Because, technically, I was happy before the money, I was happier after the money, the happiness is increased, and over a period of time, If I still have that money and be sad, what's the point of having it? Technically I am richer than yesterday me, but I'm poorer than tomorrow me, which brought me back to my friends answer to my question "Are you happy?" He said, "Not sure, probably yes" and his answer started to make sense to me.
The index of happiness is always moving and nothing gives us happiness anymore. We can be happy for some time, but the happiness wouldn't last long. Because, you know what makes human happy? Nothing, nothing makes us happy. Of course, money may solve many of the problems, but it wouldn't solve all of the problems. Poor people have sad moments, rich people also have sad moments in their life. The only difference is one cry sleeping in footpath and one in their multi bedroom villa. So, even if we are happy now, we always will crave more. It brings me to the title of this article, Sigada Aakashakke Kai Chaachi, the line is taken directly taken from Guntur Kaaram, Maava Enthaina song. It's a typical Sharan movie type "Enne Song", but in Telugu. On the outside the Thaman beats makes you want to dance, but Ramajogayya Sastry lyrics makes you question the existence of our life in the tiny rock called that's floating in the infinite universe. The beats overshadows the pain in the song, some of the lines include, "Yaado Ledu Lopam, Naa Meede Naaku Kopam" or the another "Naajukaina Naabotodiki Dina Dina Oka Narakam" and so on. But the line , "Andananna Aakashaniki Enthagani Egabadatham" caught me off guard as I wasn't prepared for philosophy in Enne Song and that too in Telugu. Some say, when you're happy, you enjoy the song, but when you're sad, you understand the lyrics. It brings us to the ethical dilemma of Thanos Snap, Avengers Infinity War movie brought us to. The movie released more than five years ago and we are still debating If Thanos was right?! He made half of population disappear, so that other half of humanity would thrive on the resources. There's also a theory where some said, he could've just doubled the resources. That sounds right, but we wouldn't know the practical feasibility of it and to experience that, we have to live in the Earth where superheroes are real, and as I much as I enjoy those superhero fiction, no I wouldn't live in the superhero world, thank you. Coming back to the song, I was vibing to Thaman beats and thought about the line, Andananna Aakashaniki Enthagani Egabadatham and I translated it to Kannada, "Sigada Aakashakke Kai Chaachi" and typed in notepad and thought it would be a good title to an article in future I may write someday. Going back to the question, "Are you happy?" Both me and friend are definitely more rich than few people in our society, Ignore society, we are atleast some percent rich than what we were few years ago, considering inflation too. We are earning more, spending more, heck we are also saving more, but why did it stopped us from saying yes when me and friend when we asked each other the same question, "Are you happy?"
Because, even if we are higher and closer to sky than we were yesterday, the sky is and will always be more far and will remain unreachable, and hence the title ಸಿಗದ ಆಕಾಶಕ್ಕೆ ಕೈ ಚಾಚಿ. We can never ever be satisfied with what we have today, the sky is always expanding and the wealth is never enough. I kept thinking about that line often and now and made me think, why we bother reaching the sky when we never will be able to reach it, Instead let's just be happy that we are still touch with the ground, standing on earth, smelling the roses and such. But never give up on yesterday's dreams to achieve it tomorrow.
ಸಿಗದ ಆಕಾಶಕ್ಕೆ ಕೈ ಚಾಚಿ ಏನು ಫಲ?
ಜಗದ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಖುಷಿ ನಮ್ಮೊಳಗೆ ಇರುವಾಗ!
ಪ್ರಯತ್ನ ಸಾಗಿದೆ ಸುಂದರ ನಾಳೆಯ ಕಡೆ,
ಆದರೆ ಈ ದಿನವ ಕೂಡ ಸವಿಯೋಣ,
ಮಳೆಯಲಿ ಜೊತೆಯಲಿ, just ಮಾತ್ ಮಾತಲ್ಲಿ
- PT
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