drama
I wonder if movies don’t teach us to fear success. There I was, watching some random film starring Jude Law and Catherine Zeta Jones while I sipped my morning coffee and contemplated my day. I wasn’t paying much attention, I just like a bit of background noise sometimes. But then I heard Jude Law assure his movie wife that all he had to do was this one little task and then they could go on with their perfect white picket fence lives with their hair commercial moments. Something about his tone of voice alerted me that here was a dramatic moment in the story.
He had said something with confidence. It was all too easy. He was destined to take a massive fall. After all, it wouldn’t make much of a story if he didn’t. And in that moment my mind played back the reel of my life to countless moments when you want to say something with confidence but you have this eerie feeling that you are going to jinx it.
“Don’t worry, nothing can go wrong”
“This cloud is nothing, it will burn off”
“There is no way I can lose”
“It couldn’t be simpler”
And as the words leave your mouth you start to look around for the falling pianos. We probably get away with saying things like this all the time. But the one time we don’t is the time that we remember and suddenly all of it is justified. Suddenly it is never okay to say something like that.
He had said something with confidence. It was all too easy. He was destined to take a massive fall. After all, it wouldn’t make much of a story if he didn’t. And in that moment my mind played back the reel of my life to countless moments when you want to say something with confidence but you have this eerie feeling that you are going to jinx it.
“Don’t worry, nothing can go wrong”
“This cloud is nothing, it will burn off”
“There is no way I can lose”
“It couldn’t be simpler”
And as the words leave your mouth you start to look around for the falling pianos. We probably get away with saying things like this all the time. But the one time we don’t is the time that we remember and suddenly all of it is justified. Suddenly it is never okay to say something like that.