and successful life dont ever treat your little insanities as if they are aberrations that ought to be hidden from the rest of the world acknowledge them and use them to define your own way of living the only life you have all the most beautiful people in the world the most creative the ones who led revolutions who discovered and invented things did so because they embraced their own idiosyncrasies theres no such thing as normal thats just another word for lifeless soon after i acted in deewana i became the hapless hero of a movie called chamatkar this movie had a more believeable plot line i get cheated off all my money by my best friend slash conman and find myself asleep in a cemetery only to be awakened by the ghost of a murdered mobster a ghost that only i can see and nobody else i am very perceptive that way anyway the mobster ghost helps me get a job as a teacher through his ghostly good offices i fall in love with his daughter from a wife that has passed on after being duped by his flunky together the ghost and i organise a cricket match yes i was doing that even before i owned a cricket team and avenge the various misdeeds done to us by bashing up the flunky and the conman forgive them and let each other descend into the respective abodes where we belong he goes back to the grave and i go away with the babe now chamatkar means miracle right and straightforward without any nuances so my next lesson is the following if you ever find yourself cheated of all your money and sleeping on a grave do not fear a miracle is near either that or a ghost all you have to do is fall asleep in other words no matter how bad it gets life is the miracle you are searching for there is no other one around the corner develop the faith in it to let it take its own course make all the effort you can to abide by its beauty and it will not let you down use every resource you have been given your mental faculties the ability of your heart to love and feel for those around you your health and good fortune all of the thousands of gifts life has given you to their maximum potential honour your life honour each gift and each moment by not laying it to waste there is no real measure of success in this world except the ability to make good of lifes endowments to you sometimes lifes gifts arrive wrapped in all the wrong damned wrapping too at which point we have to learn to do two things with them recognize them for what they are and gamble on our fear that they might be disasters this brings me to my third life lesson inspired by two movies in which i played the antihero