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title:  "Choices"
date:   2019-05-17 14:00:00 +0545
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categories: writing
tags: writing life choices determinism
subtitle: "Maybe life is all about choices, goals, wishes, and changes."
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{ Header picture: Captured by Me at Sauraha, Chitwan dated around July, 2018 }

#### [After Watching The Movie Mr. Nobody]

This is one of the best movies I have ever watched in my whole life. To be
honest, the movie was on my laptop for more than a year and I made a choice that
I will watch this when I am actually **“in the zone”.** And just a few minutes
back (maybe 10 minutes), I have completed the movie. Now, I am left with so many
inexorable thoughts that I feel like jolting them down here in this blank canvas.


For me, movies are the “best” when they tend to reflect my personal life, the
little nuances of choices I make and the struggles and happiness that come
thereafter. This movie… Well… It covers the philosophies of **free will**
and **determinism**. Right now I am totally intrigued by the fact that movie was
able to put up this concept of inherent choices we make in our life, in much
artistic way of story-telling. Time and again, as I watched the scenes warping
between different timelines and spaces, they kept on knocking at my senses that
LIFE is an amalgam of choices — some we have control over and some we don’t.

I remember one of my thought-whining posts I wrote a year ago (maybe), the time
when I was feeling pretty much empty. Although I still feel that emptiness —<commit_msg>Add podcast for the blog posted titled choices<commit_after>---
layout: post
title:  "Choices"
date:   2019-05-17 14:00:00 +0545
last_edited_on:   2019-05-22 16:00:00 +0545
categories: writing
tags: writing life choices determinism
subtitle: "Maybe life is all about choices, goals, wishes, and changes."
comments: true
header-img: "img/post-headers/2019-05-17-choices.jpg"
---
{ Header picture: Captured by Me at Sauraha, Chitwan dated around July, 2018 }

The audio version (podcast) of this writing(esaay?) can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEuf3JQAIAw

#### [After Watching The Movie Mr. Nobody]

This is one of the best movies I have ever watched in my whole life. To be
honest, the movie was on my laptop for more than a year and I made a choice that
I will watch this when I am actually **“in the zone”.** And just a few minutes
back (maybe 10 minutes), I have completed the movie. Now, I am left with so many
inexorable thoughts that I feel like jolting them down here in this blank canvas.


For me, movies are the “best” when they tend to reflect my personal life, the
little nuances of choices I make and the struggles and happiness that come
thereafter. This movie… Well… It covers the philosophies of **free will**
and **determinism**. Right now I am totally intrigued by the fact that movie was
able to put up this concept of inherent choices we make in our life, in much
artistic way of story-telling. Time and again, as I watched the scenes warping
between different timelines and spaces, they kept on knocking at my senses that
LIFE is an amalgam of choices — some we have control over and some we don’t.

I remember one of my thought-whining posts I wrote a year ago (maybe), the time
when I was feeling pretty much empty. Although I still feel that emptiness —
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