What if I am Ruby
Sparks and Calvin is God?
After watching Ruby
Sparks, this was the first thought came to my mind! We often complain about the
state we are usually put in by God! We have a unique kind of way to believe
that God chose only us to be in some situation! Then either we make some philosophy
of how we can get over with the situation we are in or we start crying and
complaining about how cruel God is for placing us in such situation!
God has created us!
Agreed? If yes, then the next question arises as a consequence is, How does God
look like? What's his religion? Is he unique? Are there many? So many questions
and only frustrating answers! Religions try to simplify it but actually making
it even worse!
Enter Ruby Sparks!
Throughout the movie, we always have that particular feeling that Calvin should
stop manipulating Ruby for his own sake! After going along the trajectories of
Ruby's life, we start feeling sorry about how she can be manipulated by Calvin
almost instantly and she's having no life of her own! How desperately we
wish to see her living her own life, be it good or bad! Do we really want
Calvin to interfere? Do we really want Calvin to manipulate? Do we really want
Calvin to be there every time around to make choices for Ruby?
No! No no no no!!
If after creating
Ruby, Calvin should never interfere in her life for any reason, why should God
interfere in our life after creating us? If Ruby is Ruby on her own and not by
Calvin, Why can't we be ourselves on our own? If manipulation makes Ruby lose her
existence, how can we sustain ours if we ask God to manipulate ourselves every
time we are in any fix?
Be thankful to God
for creating us! But please don’t ask him to write you always! Make your own
way! Make your own choices! Do whatever you want to do! It might bring failures
or even circumstances big enough to make you cry! Whatever! But please don't ask
him to put his hands on that typewriter! By asking him to write you, you are
making yourself exactly like that Ruby who barked and who jumped in vein!
We are God's
wonderful creation and he's real busy in creating more and more Rubys around!
Let him do his work and let us live the life written for us by him!
Ruby Sparks might be
a love story or may be more philosophical than what I perceived! But I quite
like taking it the way I wrote up above! This movie provides enough life
lessons to learn! It also warns us not to write other's lives! We should adapt
to live with all Ruby Sparks around rather than writing them for our self
pseudo-geniusness!
Cinema offers lot to
learn ! So does Ruby Sparks!