My Parish, My Family

My friends and I spent the last three weeks working on a documentary for a competition by the Diocese Youth Center of Mumbai.

The theme of the competition is 'My Parish, My Family'. We had to portray the various cells and associations that are part of our church and how they function as a family in this documentary.

We learnt a lot while making this video, not only in movie making but also about our church and the parishioners who strive to build a community that constantly cares for one another.

Following is the video we shot, edited and are currently publicizing.
Do spare a moment to watch and don't forget to share it if you like it!

It's brighter outside

You've reached that point
Where wanting has ceased
Where needing is irrelevant
And where having is out of the question.
When you've tried and tried
To no luck at all.
When you've tried and failed and tried again
And yet you have nothing but a break and fall.

You lose all hope, you lack any motivation
Suddenly, nothing is important and everything is just a phase.
Nothing is worth the time and nothing is worth the energy.
And in these moments of utter uselessness, 

That's when you wonder what really went wrong.
How did this happen? Where have you gone?
What happened to your drive, your passion?
Where has all that charisma gone?

Have you been reduced to your own idea of helplessness?
Have you made a universe for yourself of self pity and apology.
Don't you wonder what a waste it is to go on this way?
There are two paths from here and I hope you choose life.

There's a silver lining behind the dark clouds, there's sunshine after the rain.

There's water beyond the desert and home's waiting for you after the long road.

There's relief after the pain, there's stillness after the storm.

There's life beyond yourself, it's brighter outside, get out, move on.

Monotony

There's something about monotony.

About the way we get used to something,
The way we condition ourselves to respond,
The way we schedule our lives,
There's something also about monotony that puts us off.
We all want to break it,
We want to defy it, we want to deny it,
We want to find something, maybe someone,
To disconnect us from this treacherous way of life.

You walked into my life and monotony walked out.
Everyday was a new one.
Every hour, every word, every action surprised me.
You surprised me. I surprised myself.
You got me to throw caution to the wind,
You made every moment new,
You drew me into the unknown and drew me to learn,
You got me to dance to music I've never heard before,
You got me threading on lands I've never known of before.
You threw me off a cliff and didn't tell me of how long I would fall.
And I fell faster, faster, deeper...
Only in love.

And then you left, to break the monotony of me.
And I was taken back, back to my monotonous black hole.
And now I'm falling deeper again, this time out of love...
Slowly, deeper, till no love can be felt at all.

Come back, let me love again,
Come, be my monotony.

Journey into the dark

We can travel to the ends of the earth
We can take pictures
Of the sky, the plains, the meadows,
The monuments, the mountains and the mills.
We can eat and drink the finest of them all
We walk and walk and walk till we drop,
Or we can fly a million and one miles.

But you and I can't take these steps
If we first don't scale each others lives.
Take a walk inside my heart and sit with me and look up at the stars.
Dive into my dark soul and let's light a sky lantern together.
Let me run like the blood in your veins and lets me move within your being.
Allow me to kiss your monumental heart and watch over it with awe and respect.
Let me worship the God in you, let me worship the good in you.
There's a journey we both must take together, before we touch the ends of the earth.
You in me and me in you, we have oceans to conquer and emotions to test.
You and I have places to go,
yet in stillness we must rest.
There's a life yet to come when we will travel from shore to shore.
But now, until we get onto our sailing boat,
Let me reach into you more and more.

Mr. Memory

You're a memory now,
A good one and a bad one.
Mr. memory, you should leave and go away,
Even though I make you feel like you should stay.
You know I'd be better off without you but you still hang around.
Mr. Memory, why haven't you left this town?
Don't you know better than to haunt?
Don't you have better things to do than taunt?
Mr. Memory, I'm no longer asking you,
You must go and let me be!
You're taking away my presence of mind,
You're taking me back into the past.
My present is at stake here, don't you see?
Only cause you just don't want to leave me!
Memory dear, memory, my love,
Some people go and we miss them much,
You however are lingering too long.
And it's growing impossible for me to remain strong
With or without you, I'm not gonna change.
For once, Mr. Memory, once you're gone,
I'll be lonelier and you may think it strange,
But I'll be humming a tune of a lyric-less song
I need you to go though,
I know I'll be losing a part of me,
But it's vital, its the only way,
It's the only way my past will set me free.