I love nothing more than to spend an afternoon or evening watching my favorite wedding movies.  It may not be my fiancйes favorite pastime, but he is generally a good sport about it.  He may not admit it, but he can recite certain scenes from My Best Friend’s Wedding off the top of his head.  Quite a few excellent wedding movies have been released in the last couple years, and these are some of my favorites.

Meet the Parents has become one of my all-time faves.  It was released back in 2000, and stars the ever-so-funny Ben Stiller.  The premise is typical of many wedding movies; a nervous young man is introduced to his future in-laws.  What makes this movie so excitingly funny is the role of prospective Father-in-Law, played by Robert DeNiro.  The dynamic that plays out between Stiller and DeNiro is unforgettable.  Oh, the hilarity of it all!

Meet the Fockers is a sequel to the above mentioned, and was released in 2004.  This time around we have the pleasure of meeting the parents of Ben Stiller’s character, Greg Focker.  His parents are played by Dustin Hoffman and Barbara Streisand, both of whom deliver unforgettable roles.  They stand in stark contrast to the russian women parents from the previous film.  While the bride’s parents are somewhat conservative and stuffy, the parents of the groom are new-age leftists.  These two films have become my all-time favorite wedding movies.  Sooo funny!

The Corpse Bride is another highly entertaining movie with a wedding theme.  This animated masterpiece was released to critical acclaim in 2005.  It is quirky in the way that all Tim Burton films are, and it has some of my favorite stars doing voice-over work.  Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham-Carter play the lead roles.  The premise goes something like this; a young man is having difficulty with his lines during his wedding rehearsal.  He strays off into the forest to practice alone.  He nails his lines perfectly, and places the ring on a fallen tree branch…or so he thinks.  It turns out that the fallen tree branch was actually the decrepit finger of the Corpse Bride, who has risen from the dead and claims to be his legal bride.  Even your boyfriend will love it!

Though one could be infinitely happy by just enjoying the nature and family and all the human-made things, there are still millions of people who are unhappy.  In the developed countries there is very fortunate circumstance of having both God-given and man-made things.  Still majority of people there are unhappy.  In the developing countries, where for millions there is a real scarcity of even basic needs, people seem to be happy.  There are some people who are engaged in difficult tasks and in warfare, and even incarcerated in prisons, and are still happy!  We have just discussed the factors of happiness.  Millions of people have them, still they are unhappy.  There are millions of others who don’t have them, yet they are happy!

 You would realize that the mere availability and abundance of God given and human-made things is not enough.  There is something else which should be right to be happy. Of course, it is our mind that must have right attitude towards and capacity to be happy. Mind, that this is not the Bеginning of thе еnd
 
 Milton in Paradise Lost says,

 ’The mind is its own place, and in itself
 Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.’
 
 One can give various examples of how mind can influence our body::

-  Pavlov’s dog starts salivating at the sound of the bell without any food in sight.
-  If we are tense we often get headache, backache, and spondylitis, etc.
-  Heart attacks are directly linked to worry and tension.
-  Right mental attitude helps in curing many bodily maladies.
-  By self-talk, motivation, and positive attitude we can become happy and successful.
-  Through hypnosis one can have command over another person’s mind and body.
-  Through meditation one can have a healthy body and extra sensory abilities.

Mind has extra-ordinary powers and as far as happiness is concerned it has the ultimate power.  We should, therefore, have a positive attitude towards life.  Instead of concentrating on bad things in life and people, we should concentrate on redeeming features in them.  We should not keep on thinking about past failures and bad experiences but be encouraged by our past success and good experiences.  Similarly, we should not be unduly anxious about future as our anxiety is not going to have a positive effect, but we should plan and work hard for the future.

In whatever circumstances you are, you can never have total lack of God-given and man-made happiness.  You cannot completely take away nature from somebody; you cannot take away all man-made things from somebody.  Even if everything is taken, one’s family and friends are there.  One’s precious body is there.  And, even if you chain somebody securely in a dungeon, one’s mind is free.  One is free to be happy in one’s mind!  Mind is difficult to be mastered by oneself, but it is impossible to be vanquished by anybody, any authority, or whatever conditions or situations.

 Abraham Lincoln has beautifully expressed it: “Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

BE HAPPY!

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Yes, we’re here at the 2009 Hot Ladies Tournament Championship. Some people circle their birthdays or Christmas on their calendars. I go with this. The problem is I didn’t know exactly which day we’d do this so I pretty much circled the entire months of April and May.

We think this is going to be the most competitive, intense, pants-tenting game of the entire tournament. Each of these ladies is a #2 seed, and each 22 years old. Each destroyed their competition in every game of this tournament. Krystal knocked off ladies such as the defending champion Megan Fox and Alyssa Milano. Keeley blew out Elisha Cuthbert and Jessica Alba.

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