I already lost most, but I don’t want to lose you. You have been circling me for many years to remind me of your presence. But I don’t even look at you in the dark times. Instead, I cried within myself on my mistakes and failures. Totally forget you exist there to comfort me.

This modern time surrounds me with its lights. I’ve been the prisoner of them, not anymore. I’ve seen the moonlight. You look-alike a white ball floating around to everyone but me. You are my soul.

I lived alone most of my time in childhood. And moon you are one of my best friends. Maybe the only one. Because those best friends are not with me now. You still accompany me.

Childhood days are crossing my mind as flashbacks like in the movies. I remember the days of playing hide-and-seek with you, moon. I was never afraid to walk alone on dark roads. You are always there. If I walk, you walk with me. If I run you run with me.

Yeah, someday you took days off. But still most of the time you are there for me. Our friendship is secret until now. Maybe It’s suited to call our friendship a secret affair.

I smirked when people talked about their long-distance relationship. It’s definitely not far compared to the distance between us.

You seduce the poets with your beauty. Moon, they use you as metaphors without asking your permission. I am not one of them. I ask for forgiveness.

I remember the story you told about the man who wants to own you by putting a flag on you. Don’t worry, it seems like their vision of colonizing you has changed. Now they are chasing Mars.

Children forget their imaginary friends when they grew up. It’s because those friends are imaginary. But not you moon. You are always there I can see you yet. These concrete jungles block our vision but not our friendship. Unless I lose the memory of you.

Memories are like brought-up birds. If you had a good understanding with them. They may fly away from you. But they will return at some time.You’ve returned moon. This time I took care of you. I’ll swear I don’t forget.

I wrote this letter as an apology and also as a reminder for myself. That I have someone to watch me always. It’s you moon.

No human can understand this friendship because it’s not human friendship. It’s something else better not to name it.

This Beatles’ song yesterday lyrics keep ringing in my ears

Suddenly I’m not half the man I used to be
There’s a shadow hangin over me

Paul McCartney

Fulfill my moon. Clears the shadow hanging over me with your amazing light. You are my strength. Maybe that’s why I am weak now. I want you again in my life. Would you accept me? Reply as soon as possible buddy. I don’t live as long as you.

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It is tragic and terrible. The perfect example for the tears of the clown is Charlie Chaplin. Happy face to entertain us in movies and crying inside in real life.

He faces a lot of personal, professional, and political issues that you could ever imagine.

Let’s know the untold story of Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin’s childhood struggles

Both his father and mother came from theatrical backgrounds. His father had a very good relationship with not Chaplin but with alcohol. His father is called Charles Spencer Chaplin. I will use Charles to avoid confusion.

Charles is an alcoholic. He abandoned his family leaving no money to survive. At that time Charlie Chaplin was just 1 year old. When Chaplin later came under his guidance, he abused him. He was eventually arrested and later died when Chaplin was 12.

Despite his father being a demon, his mother is an angel. Hannah alone took care of his son Chaplin and Sydney. She tried as much to provide shelter and food to her sons by acting on stage.

But it’s not enough. Chaplin mimics his mother’s comic performances and singing. That’s where his acting performance starts.

He dances in the streets with his half-brother Sydney to collect pennies. Even though Charlie Chaplin lives in hardships, it’s considered a happy time because he has a family. He is going to lose that sooner.

Hannah suddenly loses her voice while performing onstage. The manager panicked and insisted someone do something.

Chaplin performed on stage for her mother. This started the career of Chaplin and unfortunately the sadness too.

Losing the voice is the symptom. Later Hannah was institutionalized for mental illness. Chaplin was forced to live with his father and then workplaces. Chaplin spent his teenage years searching for food and work. Sydney joined the navy and Chaplin became alone.

Charlie Chaplin’s greatest success and suffering

Chaplin worked as a newspaper vendor, doctor’s boy, toymaker, printer, and many others. Until he got the role of a drunk and toured America. America loved Chaplin, so he got the chance to play into motion pictures.

He created that iconic character, the little tramp, in his 2nd film. The guy with a short mustache, lousy trousers, tight black jacket, a small black bowler hat, and a cane and how could anyone forget that famous penguin walk.

Chaplin’s acting performance made him rich. He earns more than US president Woodrow Wilson of his time. He made 34 films in 1914 alone.

He’s no more have to search for food in the streets. But he searched for something else. He married 3 times and got divorced. It was only the 4th time he continued to live. His wives were a lot younger than him.

It gets him into a lot of controversy and hatred. Chaplin has become famous worldwide and most Hollywood films have been a huge success. You only knew him as a comedian, but he writes most of his movies and produces it by his own company too.

He becomes a true genius and gives artistic movies like The Gold Rush and The kid. Sounds were introduced in movies. But he still pursues silent films, and it helped him to reach worldwide without the barrier of language.

Falling and rejections of Charlie Chaplin

Hitler and Chaplin not only share the same style of mustache. There is also something that bound them together. Not in a friendly manner. Chaplin couldn’t ignore the cruelness of the Nazis. The world was scared of Hitler but not Chaplin.

Chaplin made The Great Dictator in which he plays Hitler and his iconic little tramp. He made fun of Hitler, and he describes the importance of democracy.

Chaplin criticized that he couldn’t speak properly that’s why he only does silent films. But he shuts their mouths with a speech about democracy in the final minutes of the movie.

The Great Dictator is a full-length true sound film and a masterpiece of acting and filmmaking. There is a saying that Hitler likes Chaplin until this movie.

But it’s not the Hitler or Nazi ruined Chaplin’s life. It’s the same people who loved him.

Chaplin was native to English and America is an adopted country for him. He never gets citizenship of America despite his 40 years of living there.

Due to industrialization and capitalistic policies, the industries treat labor as slaves. He projects the true sufferings of labor workers in his Modern Times movie.

This makes the US government angry. America started labeling Chaplin as a communist and supporter of the USSR. People are starting to claim Chaplin as an outsider and anti-American. They protested against him.

When he made a trip to Europe he was exiled from America by the US government. He spent his next 25 years in Switzerland. He returned to America only once. To get the honorary Oscar.

He continues to make films until he dies, but everyone rejects him. He died in 1977 on the happiest day of the year, Christmas.

A great artist never cares about his personal struggles, political pressures, or even the people’s support. They persist in giving their artwork whatever means they could find.

Charlie Chaplin may not be a good human, but he is one of the greatest artists. No one can deny that.

This is one of my favourite quotes of Charlie Chaplin which explains the sadness of his life.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Charlie Chaplin

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The tragedies of Chaplin sound overwhelming, and you think it’s ended. But it’s not.

After he died some thieves stole Chaplin’s body as a hostage and asked for ransom. Later the police rescued Chaplin’s body and buried him in the concrete slab. They don’t even let the man rest in peace after he died too.

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My favorite is the Great dictator for the courage of an artist.

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I watch many movies irrespective of the languages, time, and style. It helps me to improve my perspective in my life. More people treat cinema as entertainment. But it’s not.

Cinema is the art of visual storytelling. Characters are the medium to express the thoughts and ideas of an artist to the people. That’s what every art is supposed to be.

But more than any art, cinema struggles to give the perception of women. Let’s see why that is?

Uncovering the Role of Women in Films

No one can deny the fact that cinema is a huge market and has more demand than other art. It also reaches everyone widely. So it is important to uncover the role of women in films.

Females are only portrayed as attractive pieces or rewards to the male protagonist of the film. They never got the chance to lead the stories equally as men.

The number of women in films may vary from different film industries like Hollywood, Indian cinema (Bollywood), South Korean films, but it is clear that women are not considered equal to men.

Let me prove it to you.

I came to know about this test called the Bechdel test which tells us whether the women in films are portrayed in the right manner just by asking the following 3 questions.

1. Does the film have at least 2 named female roles?
2. Do they talk to each other in the film?
3. And this talk isn’t about the men like love interest?

If you ask these questions, the answer surprises you. Most of the films don’t fail to pass the Bechdel test.

Try to check whether your favorite films pass the Bechdel test.

The Bechdel test is not the holy grail method to find the importance of women in films. But it indicates gender inequality in the film industry.

Here are some movies that fails in the Bechdel test

• Lord of the Rings trilogy
• Superhero movies like The Avengers
• Toy Story 1&2
• Slumdog Millionaire

The main purpose of the Bechdel test is to measure the active presence of women in films, so it has some flaws in finding feminist movies.

Let’s take Avatar as an example. Although the film has two main characters Neytiri and DR Grace Augustine, they didn’t speak to each other. Yet they are feminist characters and Neytiri is the one who kills the antagonist.

So what I am gonna do is to change the question slightly to find feminist movies. It will help us to dig deeper into this gender inequality issue in the films, I want you to add this criterion to that question number 1.

• Does the film have at least 2 female characters (and one should be the main protagonist and the other should be the main supporting character)?

Now it’s tough to find any movies that pass this test. If you can find any movies, comment to me below.

Why does Cinema ignore the Female Lead?

I believe cinema is the major art that impacts society more than any other art including painting, literature, poetry, and drama.

Cinema has been the mirror to the societies and thoughts of the artist. But it is limited due to the following reasons.

• Less number of female directors.
• Big pictures not interested in female-led movies.
• The audience does not support women in films as much as men.

Art is limitless and beyond infinite so never approach it only with the mind of entertainment and commercial.

The action, drama, romance, fantasy, are not only limited to male characters, but it also belongs to the women in films.

I would love to see characters like Fa Mulan and Beatrix in Kill Bill fighting everyone and franchises like The Hunger Games with the female lead. The innocence of the girls in Mr. Miyazaki’s animations also impressed me.

I hope someday I’ll watch a female James Bond in action too.

The world cannot make progress if you couldn’t see the perspective of female characters.

Give space to women in films as much as men and support the strong female characters. It makes a huge impact on women’s empowerment and helps the cinema to develop as an art.

I’m seeing a wave of more female leads in Hollywood in recent years. I want this wave to continue and spread across the world.

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If you are not self-disciplined to follow these daily habits, then you cannot change your life to what you want to be.

Habits are the first practical step towards your dream, so take your first step through this article.

1. Wake up to work out

Life starts from your birth and the day starts in the early morning.

Every day is an opportunity to work on your dreams. If you want to grab that opportunity, you need to wake up early in the morning.
An early workout is the best method to prepare your mind and body for the upcoming day.

The air itself is not polluted in the early mornings as well as your mind. You don’t need to worry about anyone or anything. This is the perfect time to work out.

A workout doesn’t need to be a gym or heavy running. Do simple exercises like Push-ups. Pull-ups, walking, jogging, and skipping.

Unfortunately, this digital era provides more comfort to our bodies and thus makes us weaker. A weak body cannot do the wonders that we want.

An early morning workout makes you stronger, boosts your immunity, and reduces your stress level. Workouts are needed more now than ever.

2. Meditation

Nowadays, meditation is treated as a high form of practice dedicated only to certain people like the rich, celebrities, and saints.

But it is a wrong assumption. Meditation is for everyone.

The main purpose of meditation is to relax your mind and to focus on your path to achieving your goals. There is nothing suspicious and magical hiding inside meditation.

To meditate, just focus on your breathing. Don’t listen to your thoughts and surroundings. Meditation helps to calm your mind and increase your focus.

I know there are multiple ways to meditate but first try a simple breathing technique.
Develop daily habits of 5-10 minutes of breathing meditation, then see the results yourself.

3. Reading books

Do you ever wonder how these successful people know everything?

The answer is quite simple, they read whenever possible. Every successful person reads daily to improve their wisdom.

Warren Buffet, one of the richest people in the world now, is more than 90 years old, and still spends most of his time reading books.

Most people make this mistake of spending their time mostly in self-help books. Life is not only about money and success. You need entertainment, sadness, romance, fear and everything. So try to read different kinds of books.

A simple short story may change your life more than a book filled with advice.

A wise old man once told me.

It is important to draw wisdom from many different places. If you take it from only one place. It becomes rigid and stale.

Books help you to improve your wisdom by reading from many places.

Elon Musk is a lover of sci-fi books, which inspire him to do these impossible achievements like owning a space company. No one had ever thought that was possible until he did it.

Information you get from TV and social media is usually the unnecessary trending that doesn’t impact anything in our life now, so it’s better to go to the books.

The best movies and series are always based on books like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Comic books, etc.

Start your book reading journey with what you love to know, or you cannot be persistent.

Try to read at least 2 books on your favorite genre fully, then you will be the reader just like the other successful people.

Books can be your partner throughout your life if you allow them in your life.

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4. Create a do-list

A do-list is a list of things that you need to do to achieve your goals.

This do-list is a small step to reach your goal. If you are too lazy to do this, then you cannot reach the top.

Mistakes you should avoid while making a do-list.

• Keep a long do-list.
• Writing a do-list in the morning.

Write your do-list the night before the day. It is difficult to write a do-list in the mornings rather than at night. When you write it at dawn, you can think clearly about your goal instead of in a hurry.

A list of 3 to 5 activities is enough for your do-list. Write down the most important thing you want to finish today. Don’t write the unimportant stuff.
A long list will only daunt you, not inspire you to take action. Prioritize your do-list based on your career.

These activities involve actions that improve your career like learning a new skill, finishing projects, attending to a client, marketing yourself, etc.

5. Journaling

The journal is your report card or a review system for your performance throughout the day. Without a report card, you cannot upgrade your life.

Don’t be too hard on yourself in the journal. Journaling is the place to evaluate, not the place to criticize you.

Write down the positives by asking these questions.

• What did you achieve on this day?
• What are the good things that happened to you today?

A gratitude journal can change your life into a fantasy that you want to live, so practice it.

Also, use the journal as trash that fills your regrets and the negatives that you want to change or forget.

Writing a journal at night helps you to sleep well, which leads to a healthy life.

Practicing these daily habits will change your life from a nightmare to a dream that you never want to end.

That’s what a habit is. You never want to end these routines in your whole life.

These 5 daily habits will improve your life in all areas. Persistence is the key to a successful life, so I want you to be persistent to reap the benefits out of them.