Shah Rukh Khan motivates students with his father’s gifts
Shah Rukh Khan has shared some life messages that he received from his late father. Speaking at the Maulana Azad National Urdu University of Hyderabad where he was honoured with a doctorate, Khan inspired students with his touching and motivational speech.
The superstar told the audience that he had received his father’s own personal possessions on his birthdays and how each item taught and helped him in life.
Speaking about an old camera he was gifted, Khan said it inspired him to be creative and told the students to hone their creativity, “He once gifted me his old camera. It never functioned. I could see from the viewfinder but couldn’t click pictures. It taught me an important lesson. Our creativity or hobby cannot always become our work. Very few people are fortunate to make it their job to me. But whatever our creativity is, be it poetry, painting, singing or dancing, it is not necessary that the world should accept it. Like the camera I had, it couldn’t click but whatever one saw through it was beautiful. Similarly, you should hone your creativity for yourself and it doesn’t matter whether the world accepts it or not. Because in life when you are alone or depressed at that time it is your creativity who becomes your best friend whether the world likes it or not. I am a bad poet but when I am depressed, I write things like ‘Humne tumhare yaad main ro ro rakkhar tub bhar diye aur woh aakar nahakar chal diye.’ During sad times when I write this, I get a lot of peace.”
Other gifts included an old chess set which he said taught him cooperation and teamwork and to be respectful to all people as both a pawn and a queen piece in the chess game are needed. A typewriter that he received taught him to be diligent and careful as mistakes are hard to remove.
A final message his father told him was to have a sense of humour, “Sense of humour in your life is essential. Always have a child like innocence”.
Inspiring and insightful messages from the superstar.
