postcard for no one

thanks crocodile hunter

I suddenly had this brilliant idea which I shared with my officemate bestfriend. It is possible to determine whether your life is a a good one or not by doing just one thing: imagining making a movie out of your life so far.

If one was made of mine, I told her it would definitely be an art film: perpetually grey, with a montage of teeth brushing, showering, commuting to work, slaving away in the office, commuting home, showering, and sleeping. It would really be effective if the recurrence of these events is exaggerated until the intended audience dozes off.

As with the background music, the theme would be something similar to the Il Mare soundtrack - melancholic with just a hint of comic here and there.

But who would want to make art films out of their lives? Art films other than being insightful, are relatively boring movies. (Well, several of what I've seen. No offense to film makers, I know you're TRYING).

What I'm really saying is, I want a Steve Irwin kind of life. Yes, the recently stingray-barbed-crocodile-hunter. You're probably thinking I'm crazy, but when the news of his death reached me, it made me sorry for him for a moment, but I later realized that his was a full life a fraction of which, I yet have to experience for myself. A tragic death maybe, but it's just a side story to his full, full life.

Sometimes it takes a freak accident or a death or a life-turning set of events to make you realize there's only here and now. But why wait?

Why don't we just snap out of this coma?

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Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness concerning all acts of initiative and creation. There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen events, meetings and material assistance which no one could have dreamed would have come their way.

I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets:
“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!”

~W.H. Murray, Scottish mountain climber