Of how, at times, with varying speeds, slowly, yet surely, life dims the bright shining star we had always held out as landmark for our individual futures.

How life robs us of our dreams, when we least expect it. The opening scenes was truly heartbreaking for me. For many, if not most of us, wallow through the years of life, coursing through it and all the while, travelling the path of the lost.

But who is courageous enough to admit in this generation of make-believe? If you are truly, in your most sincerest of consciences, are where you had always wanted to be, please be grateful, savour it, live it and pay it forward. Perhaps, it is merely an assumption that even the most successful, in the deepest inclination of their imagination, has their hearts knocking on their wills, gently whispering, unsettling reminders of a childhood vision, desire or dream, far removed from the current. How many of us look back at life and say in our most silent and vulnerable of moments that this was not where we wanted to be, that this was not the life we envisioned or simply this was not how we imagined life? For some reason, in the most peculiar and uncanny of ways, it frequently takes us to a reality far removed from what we, in childhood, envision, had been told or pretty much reared for. Life Takes Us To A Path Of Surprises, We Make The Most Out Of It So, here we are with our tradition of finding three life lessons from the movies Letting a spectacular movie, such as this, on the other hand, be simply looked at as a piece of entertainment, is such a crime. While the book arguably, will be as piercing as the movie, if not even more, it is one of those that I had always wanted to read, but am yet to. It stars Zhang Ziyi in the lead role, with Ken Watanabe, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh, Youki Kudoh, Suzuka Ohgo, and Samantha Futerman. It tells the story of a young Japanese girl, Chiyo Sakamoto, who is sold by her impoverished family to a geisha house ( okiya) to support them by training as and eventually becoming a geisha under the pseudonym “Sayuri Nitta.” The film centers around the sacrifices and hardship faced by pre- World War II geisha, and the challenges posed by the war and a modernizing world to geisha society. Memoirs of a Geisha is a 2005 American epic period drama film directed by Rob Marshall and adapted by Robin Swicord from the 1997 novel of the same name by Arthur Golden.

The geisha book