Watched 3 idiots for the 5th time at KY house on Sat.

This film is so great, that all 5 times I will always take back some reflections on it.

The first few times was about education and pressure, like how the system emphasizes “failures” by comparing it with a yardstick, or how people believes in pursuing success, by adopting any means and methods, and by memorizing without understand, or finally, how extreme pressure in the head could cause “murder”.

This time round, I looked at their friendship.

Phunsukh Wangdu, known as “Rancho” to them, has been a really supportive friend. He is like a great pillar of support for his friends. He enjoys people doing what they like, and believes in equal opportunity to study, just as how he had taken this path of studies, and how he gave MilliMeter a chance to go to school.

He is willing to do all sorts of task to help his friends, to proof his judgements, and to give them education on life.

“I wasn't teaching you engineering, that you know better than me. I was teaching you how to teach.”

In this scene, the furious ViruS asked “Rancho” to teach the class instead. Thus, after a little thought, he wrote down 2 words, and asked the class to find out the meaning in 30 seconds. Obviously none could. The reason being, the words are derived from his two friends, Farhan and Raju. However, the point he was trying to make here was that during that moment, are our hearts filled with the excitement to discover new knowledge, to learn for understanding, to be exposed to unprecedented ideas, or simply to be the “one” who knows the answer. Life, shouldn’t be just a race.

So this, though it may looked like a view on education, I thought of it at friendship perspective. At the point where we interact with someone, what are our thoughts? So then to a close friend, would you be completely truthful and disclose everything to allow them to share your burden? To what extent would you then help a friend? Do we always consider “worthiness”? Or what if the person would be just an acquaintance in your lifetime? Friendship, isn’t just to find out who are the loyal ones, it is also about yourself, would you go all out for one who frequents with you, yet/thus be very peripheral to those “acquaintances”.?

He also stood up for whatever he don’t feel is right, like proofing how materialistic is Pia’s fiancé, how cramping textbook definitions led you to be easily manipulated at the Teacher’s Day scene, about Farhan going into Photography, for Raju to stand up on his feet after he lost his feet.

Their friendship moved me, I do hope I would have a “Rancho” in my life. He’s like an ideal heroic figure in terms of friendship. “Everyone is searching for a hero, people need someone to look up to”, a song from the legendary Whitney Houston. Yes, not only child, practically everyone should have an “idiol” to mimic, to admire, to be an indirect pillar of support. Admiration power. Simba has his Timon and Pumba to teach him about life, Mulan has Shang, the kids has Yamakasi, the 2 idiots has “Rancho”. So as for myself, I’m searching for one too.

I've always been a law abiding citizen. But in the last 24 hours, I grounded an airplane, nearly flushed someone's remains down the toilet, and helped Pia escape her wedding. All for Rancho. He would've done the same for any of us, too, like stealing a copy of the final exam that was designed for Raju's failure.

This is the proof of “Rancho’s” effort into the friendship. That made Farhan spoke that statement above. It was so intriguing, so ideal, so impossible, to have someone like that. Someone who you could release all the stones on your chests, yet at the same time take up weight bars on your shoulders, by knowing them, knowing their troubles, and share them.

Of course, I believe, this should be a peer kindda thing, age gap too much it would just be mentoring. Sometimes, I do wish at times, people would ask me, and show “concern” of me, instead of me just openly expressing my problems. A real friend, would tear down the smiling-face mask, and possesses no attribution error bias, to reach out, with helping hands and open arms, to the abyss of your soul, pulling you out of it and say, “Hey! Stop hiding, I know, and I want to know”.

Sometimes, I bet im not alone, we wished that we knew all the details, activities, and thoughts of a person, to better understand, to help, to maximise the potential. As such, that’s where companionship comes in, and that would give us very little time to understand too much people. Perhaps those are some interesting things about psychology, to be able to “generalise” and “predict”. Perhaps too, that what facebook is for, to “never miss a thing”. Well, to a certain, limited, visible extend.