With my daily practice of calling one student and talking I called one and during the conversation he asked, am I not too late in finding my individualistic path of healing, I am in my thirties.
Came home and started my daily rituals of the last 21 years of reading one hour before sleeping, a habit that made me who I am today.
Straggly this is what came up today,
“Imagine you are twenty-two… trained in the field of graphic design… switch to publication house.
One day you wake up realizing that this is not the life you had imagined for yourself.
You ask yourself, what it is I wanted to be and the bold voice says, a film director.
Your heart pumps up when you fantasize about it.
Your life as a student of filmmaking starts at thirty whereas other starts at twenty.
You collect a team of amateurs to make the first film but no money.
Finally, at age of thirty-four, you make your first film, almost ten years later than the ones who ruled the film industry at that time.
You will be surprised that you are not all late, in fact, you go on to become one of the most iconic filmmakers of the world.
This journey which I just shared is that of legendary filmmaker, SATYAJIT RAY. The film, PATHER PANCHALI, the first of ray, was shot with a bunch of amateurs with several hitches. And went on to become one of the greatest pictures ever made.
Happy world book a day and remember Satyajit ray on this death anniversary.
Keep reading to come closer to your inner unique designer path and nothing will matter once you are ready with your Pather Panchali(song of the little road) song of your inner being.
Dinu