Recently I watched Woody Allen’s latest film “Midnight in Paris” in which the central character Gil Pender during his visit to Paris with his fiance’ manages to slip back in time to the Paris of the early 1920s. There Gil meets the greatest of the worlds literati during the period like F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway Gertrude Stein Pablo Picasso Salvador Dali and many others. Gil always thought that the 1920s was the golden age of literature and art and Paris was the center of this world. It was Gil’s dream come true. There in the 1920s Gil falls in love with the beautiful Adriana Pablo Picasso’s lover. But to Adriana of the twenties the golden age was “la Belle Epoque” the European revival during the late 19th century. By a twist in the tale Gil and Adriana travel back to the “belle Epoque” era to Maxim’s and meet Edward Degas Toulouse Lautrec and Paul Gauguin the great artists of the period. But when asked these great artists say that to them the golden age was the period of Renaissance So it seems that to each generation the golden age belongs to the past. We often think that our past was much better than what we have today. Is it because that only the good things of the past remains in our memory as the Bengali proverb says - Smriti Satatoi Sukher Is it that we always tend to forget the miseries of the past In the film at one point when Adriana refuses to return to the future Gils tells her they have no antibiotics. Or is it that we are so backed up in our knowledge that we tend to overlook the great things that are happening around us. We fail to recognize the beauty of the wonderful creations that keep on happening all around us. We always tend to belittle modernity in favor of the past. Nostalgia is good but it should not blind us from enjoying the beauty of our period. All ages are golden ages in their own right. So let’s enjoy what we have right now. Let’s appreciate the creators of our times. Let’s not hold back our creativity just because some other genius has created something similar in the past. Let the past be our inspiration and not a deterrent to our creative motivations. 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