All it takes is just one good opportunity to completely turn things around, disrupt it for you, but that opportunity hits when you are in tune with your work, goals and routines. The opportunity/inspiration finds you but it needs to find you working, it needs to see you on that course.
So a good question then is not what can I do to have it extraordinary but – Am I making the choices on a everyday basis that set me on the outcome that I’d like to experience?

The Boy who Harnessed the Wind

How expertly the makers of the movie packed a riveting story into two hours without lagging, without losing interest – EVERYTHING about this film was intelligent, inspiring, wholesome, life-affirming.

The film depicts accurately – the drastic effects of climate change on people, especially farmers – the ones who did not even cause it in the first place yet they suffer the most. They suffer to fill their stomachs. Let alone, basic education or decent clothing. Times like these force such people to relocate.
While the movie’s primary plot lies in the rise of the boy who helps his community by his invention, but it covers SEVERAL aspects of real-life: The friendship between boys. The companionship between man and dog. The hard work of farmers. Suppression of voice by the Government. Power of knowledge and education. Sacrifice and struggle of parents for their children. Tough conditions in remote areas. Finding happiness in small things.


Let’s talk about the ‘Real Boy’ – William Kamkwamba (upon whom this story is based). The boy who did not even have basic amenities, he was thrown out of school being unable to pay the fees. But it was his curiosity and thirst for knowledge that led him to sneak into school and study science. The boy’s tinkering with electronic parts from the crap fueled his passion and was a good source of his happiness.
Even though his entire community was backward and outdated including his parents, he was farsighted and visionary. He knew the potential of technology. His passion met luck when he came across the dynamo that could make electricity – he was moved. His curiosity led him to the library, he wanted to make one of his own and put it to better use. Fate happened when he found a book named – ‘Using Energy’.
He knew he could make a water pump work which would help his family in farming, especially when there was a famine at door. He built a little prototype yet nobody trusted him and believed in him, only when his mother asked his father to help the boy. He scavenged from his father’s cycle and some other parts, a windmill that powered the water pump and watered the fields.
The boy had no formal knowledge, of electricity, energy, or anything, it was his passion and willpower, imagination and ingenuity that helped him save a community, a village, an entire nation.

Think of your dreams and ideas as tiny miracle machines inside you that no one can touch. The more faith you put into them, the bigger they get, until one day they’ll rise up and take you with them.

The Boy who Harnessed the Wind


It really hits hard at the saying “what if the cure for cancer is trapped inside the mind of someone who can’t afford an education” or is rather too busy just trying to survive.

The boy – William Kamkwamba is an inspiration to many. Well, definitely to me, it makes us ponder over our own choices. How much are we making out of what has been bestowed upon us? Are we able to do something for our own selves or parents, forget about the community or nation? The least, we could possibly do is be grateful for what has been given to us and be kind to those around us.

This film is a real jewel. Please see it if you want to restore your faith in man.