Horror Show

Yesterday wasn't a good night. And it wasn't even that the little girl was getting up too often.

It started in the evening. While Suhaana, her dad, grandmother and I were hanging out in the evening, TV was playing in the background. And they were screening the Indian movie 'Darna Zaroori Hai' (translates literally to 'Need to be Scared').

I wasn't paying much attention to the TV, but the movie was kind of interesting as most decently made horror movies are. I ended up watching more intently than I intended to. In the movie, an old haggardly woman stays in the middle of a lonely jungle in an old dilapidated house. 6 kids who are on a school outing get lost in the wilderness and end up at the house. The woman starts to tell the kids stories and after each story one of the kid gets up to use the bathroom or drink water or some such thing, and ends up dead.

While watching the movie, it was just vaguely interesting. By then I hadn't realized that I get up at-least 2-3 times in the dead of the night!

So, in the night, when I got up to either feed baby Suhaana or to express milk for her, I couldn't help but remember the old witch with crazy eyes the size of footballs! I tried to check news sites or check if any other friend out there updated their Facebook status at 3:30AM, just to chase away the freak thoughts.

I was wondering do babies feel scared of anything? I think not. They get startled all the time. Folk lore says that when babies dream (and they do dream, that part is scientifically proven) , they actually see or remember incidents from their past lives, and if they're unpleasant they get startled. My parents told me that one. I'm not one who believes in such folk tales, but I still find them interesting.

Hindu religion talks about life and death and rebirth. I find the whole concept so interesting.. If we carry traits and also both good and bad credit of the past life into then next one; then I wonder if there's a correlation between present relations (friends, lovers, or just people we click with) and the past forgotten ones. Or if there's a relation between current traits and those in the past life, then wonder who and what I might have been! It's just an entertaining thought.

If you're wondering, attaining the love and understanding of the all pervasive and loving God is the key to break the cycles of life-death and rebirth. Seems like I went off in a tangent. Anyhow, none of this makes for a good night bed time story. No more horror movies for me!