This last weekend, I was able to watch Up, The Fiddler on the Roof, and 500 Days of Summer in successive days. All three were excellent. The things I have learned...
1. I want a girl like Ellie.
1a. Don't let your life go by, putting off what you want to do for a later year. Time flies by quicker than you think.
2. "Every one of us is a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck..."
2a. The constant battle between tradition and forward thinking is tricky.
3. I won't get into it too much, so as not to ruin anything. But this movie was so refreshingly different.
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If baseball is a game of inches, then life is a game of balancing. The more I think about it, the more everything, EVERYTHING is about balancing. For example, there is a fine line between being confident and being arrogant. Should I just admit I'm wrong in the interest of kindness, or should I put up a fight, to stand firm in what I believe in? Have I been spending too much time with family? Or do I need to get out more. The list goes on and on, but ultimately we all hope that life sort of balances itself out. That we naturally just stay within the lines. Unfortunately we all bleed outside on either side occasionally. It gets worse when we micromanage, actively thinking about it on every single action you perform throughout the day. Unfortunately, there's no conclusion to this one. I don't really know what I'm getting at. It just sucks when I'm left hopelessly trying to erase crayon.
1 comment:
1. (500) Days of Summer (which is now one of my all-time favorite movies) says everything you need to know about love, except for why it changes (in a marriage, for instance, when someone can go from head over heals in love to indifferent).
2. I love your comment 2a. It helps me understand why average people are completely satisfied remaining average. Once I stopped being satisfied, I stopped understanding why I was in the first place.
3. I think you'll like this quote from Richard Linklater's Waking Life:
"There are two kinds of sufferers in this world: those who suffer from a lack of life, and those who suffer from an over-abundance of life. I have always found myself in the second category. When you come to think of it, almost all human behavior and activity is not, essentially, any different from animal behavior. The most advanced technologies and craftsmanship bring us, at best, up to the super-chimpanzee level. Actually, the gap between, say, Plato or Nietzsche, and the average human is greater than the gap between that chimpanzee and the average human. The realm of the real spirit, the true artist, the saint, the philosopher, is rarely achieved. Why so few? Why is world history and evolution not stories of progress, rather this endless and futile addition of zeros? No greater values have developed. Hell, the Greeks 3,000 years ago were just as advanced as we are. So what are these barriers that keep people from reaching anywhere near their real potential. The answer to that can be found in another question, and that's this: which is the most universal human characteristic: fear or laziness?"
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