42.0 Be Smart To Manage Your Thoughts.

As I told you some horror movies not horror movies for us, especially when all of us cousins watched it. Actually, it was enough to have one cousin and not required the participation of all. Most of the times my father's elder brother's daughter was my movie partner. Her husband also joined us when there was a movie that was in the preferred category of three of us.
 

So, if he did not like we two went to the movie theatre. One day we went to watch 'Dracula movie. It was one of the very first versions, I guess. Somehow, it showed in the movie theaters in Sri Lanka. We two idiots also wanted to watch that movie for an unknown reason. Lol... We watched the 7.30 p.m. movie after leaving the office. However, the movie hall was not crowded and, there were many free seats.

As one of my friends said, it was not a scary one except only one thing. Though it was the only scary thing I could not forget it for a long time. As you know 'Dracula was the reason for the death of many young girls. But their deaths did not bring sorrow or fear for us. Some deaths and rebirths made us laugh. Lol... However, that scene was a terrific one. 

In that scene when one girl was standing in front of the mirror, 'Dracula appeared suddenly and hugged her crazily. That sudden appearance of 'Dracula made me crazy and it increased my heartbeat as well. In some situations, we could imagine the next scene as per our movie experiences. But here this was a totally unexpected scene for me. So, I excited and it scared me a lot.

  

However, it was the only thing that I can remember. I could not remember the entire story of the movie. So, once it's finished, we two came out and took the lift to go down. There were a few boys who came out after watching the movie. 

On the way to the ground floor, we two laughed for some movie scenes. At that time, one boy saw my weird tooth, which adjusted as 'Dracula's one at the corner of the mouth. Though it was not sharp like 'Dracula's tooth, it highlighted when I was laughing. Not smiling. Lol... So, at that time, he yelled to his friends and said that 'Hey, just now I saw the real 'Dracula's tooth. See, this is the scariest one. It embarrassed me a lot and at that time, my sister also acted as one of their companions. Lol…

In such one night, we went to watch 'Iron Man. On that day, a few of my cousins were there. I could not remember the reason. It was a free movie show and scheduled to start at 9.00 p.m. The organizing committee informed the delay and, asked to stay for an additional hour. Though some of the cousins wanted to go back, the majority wanted to watch the movie. 

Finally, it started at 10.30 p.m. and finished around 12.30 a.m. As it was our cousins' crowd, parents did not follow us. At the time when we were finishing it, all of us were very tired as all of us came after office hours. So, we wanted to go back home quickly. The very few who did not want to watch the movie blamed us by remembering their next work schedules. Therefore, everyone was in different mental statuses. 

When we were going back to the car park, suddenly we saw a couple. They were weird and, both of them wore totally black clothes and, their skin color was very dark. They wore heavy silver jewelry. There was very heavy jewelry in their neck, ear, nose, hand, and legs. They two were like thieves and their behaviors also weird. Their sudden appearance made us laugh and we hardly manage it as they also came with us in the lift. When we went to the car park, we saw their car. It was also a black one. Their appearance brought me to another planet. I felt like that 'Am I on the earth now?. If we had to stay with them for an additional few minutes, definitely that boy would hit all of us. Lol...

However, once I started the journey of being conscious of my own thoughts, the idea I had about movies changed a bit. Actually, I don't know how do you grasp this view. But I would like to explain that view as I think it will help someone. As well as I wanted to say that even though I have not fully aware of my thoughts yet. 

Sometimes I'm daydreaming. Sometimes, I could not manage my thoughts and played the worst scenario. However, I'm trying. I believe that practice will help me on one day to increase the awareness of my own thoughts. You know that when you are looking at someone and observing their behaviors they cannot cheat you. The same thing will be applied to your mind as well. Then it is not dragging you towards the unnecessary thoughts, sorrows, and daydreams. You will be staying in the present moment. You know what does come to your mind, and with that awareness, there won't no space for that thought to build sub thoughts. I think you can imagine this peacefull situation of your mind when you have suffered from overthinking.

As you all know sorrow, fear, anger, and unpleasantness are belonging to sins as those thoughts are not clean things in our minds. So, as we discussed movies here if we take a fight scene as an example, we would like to see the victory of our hero and expect the death of the other one. In such a situation if you can observe your honest thoughts, you can see that how do you expect death or revenge. In that case, our thoughts go towards the anger side. A few years back, that was my status. Sometimes this may be different when compared with you. 

So by unknowingly those thoughts are coming to our mind. We are getting attached to the things and people we saw.  It also contributions to our next egos and at each moment, we are creating our next egos. So, if you think about a movie you watched, it is a collection of all those thoughts. That's why we laugh, cry, and get angry when we were watching a movie. The thing I wanted to tell you here is being aware of your thoughts could make an inner peace. When you know your thoughts, the mind does not let you go towards the anger side and the attraction side.  

However, I know that this is not a clear explanation for you. I could say that I have tried to explain something. If you are a Sri Lankan, you can search 'Abhidharmaya - Ven 'Thiththagalle Anandasiri Thero for more information. Please forgive me if you could not understand. Just forget the last paragraphs and enjoy the rest.

  

41.0 Why Do We Burn Blood By Watching Horror Movies? Y Y Y??

Movie times were always good for us, and it brought joy though we watched a horror movie even. Sometimes I watched movies in a theatre with my friends or cousins and sometimes watched alone via a DVD. However, I do not have the practice to download and watch a movie. 

When I was watching a movie alone, I watched it for a few days, even though there was a happening story. One day one of my office friends gave his movie collection, and after a few days he asked 'did you watch that movie, it is marvelous right? At that time, I have not touched it even. 

So, I said 'no I could not watch it. After another a couple of weekends, he asked how many movies I watched out of that collection. At that time, I could watch half of one story. So, he was fed up with my response and said that no point in sharing it with me. Additionally, he said that it was his most precious collection. He said that he watched two to three movies per day to complete that collection. Recently also, one of my friends asked me to watch the latest movie via a 'BitTorrent. However, I could not do it yet. Lol... But I'm planning to watch 'The lion king and asked one of my friends to watch it once released. I love 'Simba...

When I was working in my former office, I used to walk a few bus halts when coming back after the office. On the way to my uncle's place, there was a small shop which sells movie DVDs. The owner of that shop was an aunt and she could introduce the movie when I was asking the summary. 

So, I used to buy movie DVDs from that shop from time to time. It was nice to have a chat with her as she had excellent skills to summarize the movie. However, that shop moved to another place, and I could not go there as it has not located in my route. So, I forgot to buy the DVDs as well, though there were other places.

A few years back, I loved watching horror movies apart from comedy movies. Most of the time, I watched horror movies with my cousin's sister. We used to go to bed with a snack and watched horror movies. However, I do not want to see blood. I wanted to skip those scenes or watch another one when there were any. But I could hardly get my cousin's approval as she did not like to miss anything. Therefore, I did not watch some scenes, and my cousin's sister informed me once it's over. As we brought some food to our bed most of the time, we could not have a peaceful sleep because of ants.

One day she told me that 'Hey, there are ants it seems. They are eating my back. At that time ants did not reach my body. So, I was very sleepy and asked her to sleep without troubling me. Though she told the same a few times, I slept like a dumb one. Though she got angry with me, I did not respond to her. But after a couple of minutes, they reached and ate me. In that case, I told her that 'Yes, there are some ants. I will change the bedsheet. But at that time, she was sleepy and somehow bore the ants attack. So, she did not want to wake up and change. When she was sleeping, I also could not change the sheet. So, I also had to bear up their attack and later on, we did not bring snacks to our bed.

Most of the horror movies we watched were English movies and one day we watched a Hindi movie. In that case, the main actress had a demon ego in her body. She worked according to the instructions of the ego. The scientific reasons for her mental status showed at the end of the movie as usual. 

Therefore, it was a scary movie. I could rate it as a five-star horror movie out of five. Once it finished, we two went to sleep. At that time, we switched off all the lights as usual. After a few minutes also, we understood that both of them were thinking about that movie as we could not sleep. So, we decided to switch on our table lamp. There were two lights and at that moment only one light was working and it gave a red color light. After going to bed it was scary for me to see my sister's face in that red color background. It was the same for her. 

So, we decided to switch off that light and switch on the room light which gave a bright white color. The entire room was lightened like 12 noon. So, we thought that everything was fine. After a few minutes, my cousin's sister talked to me again and she said that my look was scary as my hair was not combed well. But I did not want to wake up and comb my hair as I was very sleepy. It was midnight. But I had to do so as I could not sleep. It took a few hours for us to arrange a suitable sleeping background after that movie. So, the time was around 1 a.m. when we were finalizing all. Lol...

The scariest horror movie I watched was 'Drag me to hell. It was a scary one like nothing and I watched it with a few of my cousins. It was not like other situations and it was a scary movie for all of us. Sometimes, we criticized and laughed. But this was a HORROR movie for all of us. 

There was no cool one to watch and everything scared us. It is kind of a story of an old woman's curse and a young girl faced with that situation. She was working in a bank and she could not help that woman to take a loan because of her job promotion. Though that old lady begged her, she refused to help her. However, it ended up with a curse and she put her maximum effort to get rid of that curse. Though we expected her peace, it ended up dragging her to hell. 

Still, I could remember the last scary scene. After that, I did not want to watch a horror movie. Later on, one of my cousin brothers checked the reviews and ratings of that film. It was rated as a top horror movie. 

However, the funniest thing happened to one of my cousin sisters. At that time, she was working in a finance company. She said that she was facing similar situations there. All of us increased her fear saying 'Don't refuse to give loans. Give it to anybody. Otherwise, someone will curse you also. Lol... I think she was thinking about it very seriously. The actors and actresses could play their jobs well and the script also a good though it scared us a lot.