"Here’s a beauty. Always been one of my favourites!" ❤️

How often does the queen visit the storage?

Never!

The Royal Treatment | Movie Takeaway

7th February 2024

Well, I guess some of you [who like rom-coms] would have sure watched The Royal Treatment on OTT recently. 😊

The movie is about Isabella, (Izzy) the female lead - a free-spirited young girl, who enjoys following the dictates of her heart,

and

Prince Thomas, the male lead, who on the other hand, though a ‘prince’, doesn’t have control over his life! 

He simply follows the will and wish of his parents all through his life, and even commits to marrying the daughter of a business tycoon, more out of a sense of duty, than out of love.

When sparks fly between Izzy and Thomas, what happens next, forms the rest of this merry rom-com!

Well, this post is inspired by one particular scene that I quite loved in the movie. 

It’s about how we end up stacking most of our unused things including our books, utensils, clothes, etc., for ages and ages in the storage vaults in our homes, and wouldn’t wish to part with them for the rest of our lives.

In this scene, Isabella is busy raising unused goods to donate for charity. For this, she collects unused collectibles from all and sundry in her neighbourhood.

Prince Thomas, observes Izzy’s love for charity, and he is also excited about this idea. 

They both go to the Queen’s storage chamber to inspect the vast reserves of precious things including furniture, rusting in the storage area.

One of the store-keepers, by name Francis, is surprised when the Prince pays a visit to the storage. It was like a bolt from the blue for him.

The Prince inspects the huge inventory of collectibles in the storage. 

The royal store-keeper, pointing to a royal chair, says –

Here’s a beauty. Always been one of my favourites!

Why isn’t it in the castle?, asks a curious Izzy (Isabella)

Anything she doesn’t fancy ends up in the storage, replies Francis.

Can’t the staff use the furniture in their houses? asks Izzy.

Against policy I’m afraid!

Absurd! Let’s load them all in the truck, says the Prince.

Respectfully Your Highness, they’re not allowed to leave the storage.

Francis, how often does the queen visit the storage? asks the Prince.

Never.

Well, then she’ll never know.

And then Francis, happily obliges the Prince, and helps in shifting the furniture into the truck to donate for charity.

Well, this scene really set me thinking! 

How many times we ourselves do this in our lives, ain’t we? 

Piling up clothes, utensils, jewellery, gift items, books, etc, and stacking them all in the unused attic in our homes, for years and years until they become completely useless to the core!

How often does the queen visit the storage? Never?

I remember this movie titled, 3-Iron by the famous South Korean film director Kim Ki Duk, which explores on the theme of unused goods, lying in waste at homes.

The protagonist of the movie is a wanderer who doesn’t speak a word throughout the movie. His only possession in the world is a bike, by means of which he travels from house to house, on the lookout for locked houses.

He then breaks into such uninhabited houses, and makes himself at home there albeit for a brief period of time.

While there, he simply enjoys the luxury of the place. 

This wanderer is by no means a thief.

So his intention is not to steal anything. While there, he scans through a whole list of unused books, unused CDs, utensils, etc.

He then proceeds to read the books, wash the utensils, which have accumulated dust over the days, and plays the CDs in the CD player, since they’ve not been used for ages.

Through this particular scene, I guess, the director gives his viewers a subtle message as a takeaway.

If you don’t use anything for long, even if it’s a talent or a gift, it loses its purpose and value. A gift loses its property when it is not shared, says Lewis Hyde, in his book titled, The Gift.

Each of us is endowed and blessed with a plethora of mesmerizingly beautiful gifts and talents.

When I share a gift with my friend, and my friend in turn shares it with his friend, who in turn shares it with her friend, the gift thus shared has a transformative, therapeutic appeal to it, whose measure is beyond compare, enriching and enlightening both the receiver and the sender in the process!

Thus, an artist takes his inspiration from the world, transforms it through his art, which in turn, transforms the world, and all that therein is!

When you are blessed with a gift, share it with the world.

A gift must always be shared! Because the gift is a ‘property’ that perishes!

A gift loses its property if its not shared.

If you have the gift of writing, share it!

If you have the gift of speaking, share it!

If you have the gift of drawing, share it!

If you have the gift of inspiring others, share it!

If you have the gift of making lovely videos, share it!

If you have the gift of writing poetry, share it!

Do not worry about the fruits to your labour.

One of the beautiful precepts in the Bhagawad Gita states that –

‘Do your duty, do not expect the results’.

Yes! Likes, or Subscribers or Views or Comments should not be a bother to you anytime!

If you overthink, and bother excessively about the ‘Likes’, and the ‘Views’, for your creativity, that means - you are disregarding your precious duty or disrespecting your sacred duty, your gifts and your value!

That’s also because you are not focused on the duty, but only on the reward!

You are given your gifts to share them with the world, without worrying about the results.

Let’s today take a resolve to use our gifts, our talents and our abilities in the service of others.

How often does the queen visit the storage?

Now, the question to you, we and me –

How often do we visit the storage? (the reservoir of talents, gifts and abilities we are endowed with?)

Never or Everrr!? 😊