Perception

My intention is not to write an essay on this, but somehow I got a series of thoughts in my mind about 'Perception' which I'll try to store in a file one by one.

It all started today evening, when I was watching the movie 'Notting Hill'.I'll be brief about it. Actress Julia Roberts is acting as 'A Hollywood Star' in that movie from America and Actor Hugh Grant is playing a common divorced person running his travel bookshop in London, in a small town called 'Notting Hill'. Julia Roberts visits his shop once and both have kinda attraction. The story moves on with ups and downs. You can guess how could this story lead. An actress with FAME falls in love with a common NOT FAMOUS person. Few incidents occurs in the movie which makes the hero feel that it's not a good idea to move on with such famous Julia Roberts. After six months or so, hero meets the actress again, when she is back in town for her forthcoming movie shooting. Hero goes on her set. Hero waits until the shooting finishes and by the time he was listening to the movie dialogues and shooting. Someone co-actor of Julia Roberts, asked her about Hero and she dismiss his identity in front of her colleague.

Ofcourse at a first glance, Hero takes it as an offence and decides that it's really a bad idea to go ahead with her. So, He leaves the shooting half way and goes back to his shop. After shooting Julia Roberts goes to his shop with an intention of confession of Love. Here, The Hero denies that Love, which I thought in my opinion was right. But Julia Roberts reply for this was like this "I know that I have Fame. But I also know that Fame doesn't last forever. And I am also a normal girl; standing in front of a boy; asking him for herself to be loved. But anyway, I probably should go now."

When I heard this first time, I kinda felt so much relax. May be I was pretty much into movie at that time. But at a second thought, it brought me a smile with a little sight. I figured out that it was a change in perception. I should say, it was a correction in perception. Majority of the people in this world has similar false perception. The people who are famous in society or who are celebrity, society reads about them. Media prints about them, shows them in NEWS or on Radio or everywhere it is possible. All the good things, all the common man things in those famous celebrity/person, all the bad things about them gets publicized using all possible media. Its appreciated to have all the good things and bad things get publicized about them. May be upto certain limit, its okey to have those common man things publicized as well. But when media prints about his/her dog, showing the footage of his/her secret sex life, discussing about the favourite things, break ups and make ups, his/her holiday at some beautiful beach or something, his/her family wedding; all these things are what everyone has in their life. But people in society care about them, read about them, discuss about them. I should say gossip about them. But these gossips indirectly make a big influence on comman person's life.

When people get chance to meet such celebrities in person, they kinda feel nervous or they hesitate. On the other side, that celebrity is trying to be normal with that person and have little chat with him/her. But celebrity fame/status comes in between. The common person can't talk beyond what amazes him/her about the celebrity. Let say, If I were to meet some musician or some tech genius/famous professor, I'll mostly talk about his/her work and that's all I will be thinking and talking. On the otherside, If I were to meet a common person, first time, the scene would be different. In fact, in my case, If I were to meet a girl, first time, the scene would be even short and differece. Lets not go detail about it.

But my point is, if people just accept how big the other person is in terms of fame and popularity and have a talk with them in normal way or treat them in normal way, the case would be different. I just remember this from the Open Heart Session I had with all friends during banglore trip. I think Jay pointed out this thing about me. I was made aware of this by him that day. I am aware of that thing and I have worked on that thing. There is nothing like hesitation or fear for that. But somewhere I have this materialistic factor attached to it sometimes.. Actually many times.. I don't know.. But ya thats the other issue and I don't wanna start that here.

May be I'll write some other day.