3
Idiots
This is my personal opinion and what I have reflected from the
movie 3 Idiots (which is the irony because each one of them are genius in their
own specific fields and passion)
3 idiots is a movie that is like a cherry, we have a lot of
lessons to pick up. For me it enables us to understand more the life as a
student, it may never come easy but every struggles comes a prize. Having a
difficult job to do isn’t enough to be able to become successful one must know
how to endure and persevere throughout the entire lifetime as a student to rip
the crop of success.
For me the major characters are: Rancho Shamaldas
Chhanchad/Chhote/Phunsukh Wangdu, Farhan Qureshi, Raju
Rastogi each with totally different attitudes and perspective but were
able to understand each other and supporting each other to cater the needs of
the others which allows them to finish their studies and pursue their passion
in life.
This is how I describe each of the main characters/protagonists
and what I have learned from the movie 3 idiots:
Rancho Shamaldas Chhanchad is
a person whose very optimistic that he sees every critical situation as a
probability or chance of creating a good opportunity therefore making it a
positive outcome. He is a very intelligent person and machines are his passion,
he took engineering because machines are his passion, he may seem to be very
relaxed in his studies but he is doing what his heart is saying making his
tasks easy for him to do because it is what he wanted to do in life, it is what
his heart says he is. His extreme intelligence is not the assurance that he
topped the class, it is because of his unconditional love towards his work,
showing dedication in everything he does.
He is not just intelligent but he is also clever for he knows how
to create good scenarios out of a very bad situation. Its like he’s able to
produce good outcomes out of very desperate and perilous events, it is because
he is also a person with integrity, and he wants what is for the better of his
friends, not just for himself, he is a person whose kind enough that all he
wanted is to make people around him happy.
His passions about machines are the main reasons why he joined the
school in engineering, and no wonder why he topped, everyone out there are
intelligent, it’s just that his guts are extraordinary and his focus are not
for himself but for his friends and he has a simple belief that “one must
follow what his heart says.” According to Paulo Coelho in his Book the
Alchemist “When you want something all in the universe conspires you to have
it.” For rancho it not his genuis that allows him to outshine the others but
because what he has been doing is what his heart is really saying he should be
doing.
When he is young, he loved math, it may be algebra, advanced
algebra, trigonometry, differential calculus, integral calculus, differential
equations, solid mensuration and etc.. from simple math to the most complicated
ones are his passion, I can say that it is where his heart really is and he is
serious about it.
It’s not about somebody to discover your talents but how you
discover yourself and how you utilize it to become the best as you could
possibly become. We are the bests in our own specific fields, we may not know
it or discover it now but we follow our heart, if we already knew what is our
passion we should nurture it and work at it, it is not that hard to follow what
your heart is saying because it is our heart that strengthens us and enables us
to endure.
Farhan Qureshi is a person whose
being forced to do things that is not his passion, he is struggling because
what he is forced to do is not inline with his passion, his not is not into it.
He is capable of doing better, or even the best as he could if he is in his
proper growing site, but for fahran, he really is struggling because his free
will isn’t present in life, he is being dictated by his parents and his heart
really isn’t to engineering. He is a person who loves to please his parents by
following their reprimands and sermons.
Raju Rastogi is a person whose very
fearful and in filipino we refer this guy as “Bahala na si Bat Man” which is
relying too much on something that is holding him back and in the end was able
to overcome his nightmares… his fears.
This is how I see myself in their shoes (reflection):
Rancho Shamaldas Chhanchad – very passionate towards his work because it is where his heart is,
in myself, I know that I’ll be able to become the best as I can possibly be,
but that’s into what my heart is saying me to do. Like rancho, I too have my
own passions, like playing drums and procrastinating in front of the computer,
these are the things that I really love to do.
For an instance playing drums, for now I may not be the best
drummer in the entire world but then, I love playing drums, it gives me relief
to when the frustrations are like endless abyss, I just play drums and those
emptiness I felt inside will be slowly filled with joy, joy that only I can
understand.
Same with our studies, if we’ll put our hearts out in our studies,
a 4 year course (or should I say 5 kay extended man ta, HAHAHA *dili mi
engineering ha, BSIT mi*) will feel like a 4 day rehearsal Not
because it is easy but when we enjoy something, we don’t really mind the time,
it will just pass by like a second, this is what Einstein meant by
his theory of relativity. Like jacob in the bible, 7 years for him came so
easily because he sees his goals, even his being tricked by his
uncle Laban he still worked for another 7 years and still he
finished it and it came off quickly.
Same with our studies, if we see our goals prior than the
problems, we will be motivated and we’ll strive harder to achieve what we
wanted, it’s not that discouragements are not strong enough but our will to
endure is much more stronger and better.
Nobody can do all things alone, he needs friends. So do I, I
thanked God for my friends for being there during the struggling times, and
Jesus as my best friend.
A simple belief from Rancho. “Follow what your heart says.”
Farhan Qureshi – Follow your heart not
what other people thinks about, friends , your relative nor your parents. Pure
happiness can be found where your heart is, and when you are doing something
that is against your will and not your passion, you will simply struggle and
find it hard to do things.
I can’t understand why each of us are like being pushed into
something which we really don’t like, for me, we can do things that ain’t our
passion but I cannot guarantee the best output I can produce because, there are
many things that seemed to hinder me in doing that thing because it is not what
my heart says to do.
Farhan is forced to study engineering but his passion is
photography, I don’t want to be like farhan that after I finish my studies is
that I will do something that is not inline to what I have been studying the
past 4 (or 5 years) in my life. I will consider it as time lost, and I don’t
want that, but the finally verdict is in God’s Hand; because TIME IS
THE CURRENCY OF LIFE, where you spend your time will define what kind of
person you are, and the past years I have been is a student, I don’t want that
when I finally graduate I will then start finding my passion, maybe this is it,
I’ll be a programmer and a technopreneur, if I am
still not the best there it is, it is my duty to nurture and enhance it, to
work it out as it is meant to be done.
Raju Rastogi – “Bahala na si batman”.
We all have this guy inside us, when things are uncertain and obscure, we say
“Bahala nani oyy”, but then I realized, what is “BAHALA NANI OYY” if haven’t
done something yet; thus, we really solely on doing something or even nothing
at all.
In my conclusion I think we need somebody to help us become
motivated, and do things instead of relying unto something that ain’t even
certain. We must take step in order to achieve something, we must go and step
out in our comfort zone, not just go out to your comfort zone and after it is
that you will come back to your safe zone, what I’m saying is, go explore the
wild and who knows you’ll find yourself out there, if not then you’ll find
yourself even stronger for surviving the wild.
Nothing comes easy, and everything comes at a prize, so all we
need to do it to take risks. Risking may be cause something Bad or Good but,
not risking somethings ain’t better at all.
We must believe in ourselves.
If I were to choose among the 3 main characters I will
choose Rancho Shamaldas Chhanchad
I will choose rancho not because he topped and outstand all of the
other students, but simply because of his attitude, attitude towards his work,
friends, professors and classmates. He is a hardworking individual whose very
passionate in what he do, I may not be like rancho Intelligent and Clever but
I’ll make him as an inspiration for me to become better, not just as a student
but a person as a whole.
I mean the character he has been is almost perfect, though I know
I’m not, yet it is still better for us to set our bars high, so that we’ll
strive hard than we usually do.
Being humanitarian isn’t easy afterall but I know it is worth the
risk. Although we know rancho is Idiot when it comes to love, cause it takes
him several years to confess his love to the girl he love yet he ran away. In
the end they still end up together, we may have the same fear, but I’m hoping
one day, we’ll have the same ending.
Rancho Shamaldas Chhanchad signifies a lot of things, he himself
speaks of perseverance, passion, love, endurance, and many more to name all.
All I can say love of knowledge isn’t the key to attain the things that we’ve
always wanted, SILENCER is a testimony of that, he did everything out of his
own knowledge but comes out short, rancho says what your heart is saying is
what we should follow, not because it is rational, but because it’s irrational.
In everything we do, we must put our heart into it, not like
literally bleed out yourself and remove your heart, but I’m referring our
mindset, we must focus our minds when we do something, we should be able to
express ourselves fully that we’ll be able to show what we can. Do the best as
we could possibly be, because that’s what we must do in order to come out with
the best output or else the output close to what we truly desired.
In relation to technopreneurship, we must strive hard to attain
the best things in life, there maybe many problems that will probably occur but
always bear in mind, if we really love something, we will find ways to bring
our goal within the grasps of our hands, it may still be far away from the
distance of our hands as of this moment, but if we make small but consistent
steps at a time, it’s still possible that one day, maybe one day… we’ll be able
to achieve the things that we want, implement our own unique ideas, establish
our own company, provide happiness and service to the people just like rancho.
There maybe lots of virus on the way; it could be physical or logical virus, as
long as it is virus, always remember, we are ANTI-VIRUS!
Keep it in mind, if everything else seems so vague and obscure
remember the passage that was said by Paulo Coelho from his book The Alchemist
“When you want something, everything in the World conspires you to have it.”
All is Well…
