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Every day, each and every one of us come to our own conclusions.
I just finished watching a wonderful movie, "Up in The Air". The core idea the movie tries to get across, is the simple question that I've been asking people for years. the very same question that I pose myself every day, and yet I still cannot answer.
"What do you want?"
This extremely yet monstrously complex single question plagues the mind of countless people no doubt, yet is so rarely asked to another person's face in earnest. Most people that do ask the question to others, do so hoping beyond hope that the other person will instill upon them some sort of divine knowledge and answer every question they've ever had.
Every single person has at some point in their lives either wanted, or needed a wakeup call. I'm not talking about the buzzer in your alarm or the bell that rests in the handset of your favorite phone, I mean the kick in the face and the assault that one associates with change. Every single person wakes up every morning and chooses to continue the life they've had set before them, or chooses to make a change. I for one would like to think that I don't force myself to commit to an endless path with no origin and no destination. unfortunately every fork you take in the road eventually begins to only lead you back to the path you started on.
One of the other major ideas the movie tries to push is that though relationships, personal possessions, property, friends, family, etc can weigh you down, they also serve as the material that gives you a reason to continue along your daily path. The film accomplishes this with the "backpack" metaphor. The simple yet effective idea that's accessible to most people in North America, describes the state of being a person places themselves into by having them imagine they're wearing a backpack and having them slowly fill it with all of their material possessions. The next step in the exercise is to imagine setting the bag down to allow the weight of it all to fall from your shoulders, only for the bag to somehow catch fire. In the final step people are instructed to determine what they might be first to try to save, and asked to instead imagine the feeling of just letting it all go and feeling the freedom that's associated with it.
Personally, I have a few troubles with the ideas of ownership, possession, and commitment: I don't believe in them. Unfortunately for the people around me, this leads to people becoming convinced that I don't care about them, or the world around me.
this could not be farther from the truth. I dearly love each and every person, place, thing, device, contraption, syllable, feeling, emotion, desire, and everything else with all of my heart. some of it/them/everything I love in different ways, for different reasons, or because of something else. Yet I do still love them all dearly.
This movie really drilled into my head the idea that different things make different people happy. Though I do still believe that most people given all the same information in the same order would likely see things in a common way, there's no way in today's world for that to ever really happen.
I enjoy that I love the world around me as is.
I just finished watching a wonderful movie, "Up in The Air". The core idea the movie tries to get across, is the simple question that I've been asking people for years. the very same question that I pose myself every day, and yet I still cannot answer.
"What do you want?"
This extremely yet monstrously complex single question plagues the mind of countless people no doubt, yet is so rarely asked to another person's face in earnest. Most people that do ask the question to others, do so hoping beyond hope that the other person will instill upon them some sort of divine knowledge and answer every question they've ever had.
Every single person has at some point in their lives either wanted, or needed a wakeup call. I'm not talking about the buzzer in your alarm or the bell that rests in the handset of your favorite phone, I mean the kick in the face and the assault that one associates with change. Every single person wakes up every morning and chooses to continue the life they've had set before them, or chooses to make a change. I for one would like to think that I don't force myself to commit to an endless path with no origin and no destination. unfortunately every fork you take in the road eventually begins to only lead you back to the path you started on.
One of the other major ideas the movie tries to push is that though relationships, personal possessions, property, friends, family, etc can weigh you down, they also serve as the material that gives you a reason to continue along your daily path. The film accomplishes this with the "backpack" metaphor. The simple yet effective idea that's accessible to most people in North America, describes the state of being a person places themselves into by having them imagine they're wearing a backpack and having them slowly fill it with all of their material possessions. The next step in the exercise is to imagine setting the bag down to allow the weight of it all to fall from your shoulders, only for the bag to somehow catch fire. In the final step people are instructed to determine what they might be first to try to save, and asked to instead imagine the feeling of just letting it all go and feeling the freedom that's associated with it.
Personally, I have a few troubles with the ideas of ownership, possession, and commitment: I don't believe in them. Unfortunately for the people around me, this leads to people becoming convinced that I don't care about them, or the world around me.
this could not be farther from the truth. I dearly love each and every person, place, thing, device, contraption, syllable, feeling, emotion, desire, and everything else with all of my heart. some of it/them/everything I love in different ways, for different reasons, or because of something else. Yet I do still love them all dearly.
This movie really drilled into my head the idea that different things make different people happy. Though I do still believe that most people given all the same information in the same order would likely see things in a common way, there's no way in today's world for that to ever really happen.
I enjoy that I love the world around me as is.