Life Is Like A Movie
How would you live your life if your life were a movie? Would it be different if you know that you are being scrutinized? Would you tell your story in first person or third? In the first place, would you even allow your story to be told? Could it be embarrassing, disastrous, exciting or great?
Would your story be written as a book first and then adapted into film then finally turned into a soap opera and series on television? Will it inspire others and bring glory to your family? Would you live your life differently if you were told before hand that it would be made into a movie. Would your story bore the audience to death even if it were not full of embarrassment as everything is so routine and dead set?
When we watch a movie or soap opera, we can see the plot, the different characters of each actor in the role and their personality. Sometimes, an actor can play the role so well that audiences actually hated him or her even when they meet in person. This means that the actor was good and the character was so bad that it merits hate and disgust.
When watching a movie or reading a book, you are basically a passive armchair critic and you are an observer of the plot that unfolds before you therefore, it is easy for you to criticize. It is easy as you are not involved, you are just having a peek in. There is no direct emotion on your part. You can even empathize with the underdog. You feel a sense of justice and fairness. Sometimes, when it comes to pay back time and you see the evil ones, the oppressors suffering, some folks actually jump for joy or gives a standing ovation clapping non-stop.
This is often extended to sports where from the couch we can say that a certain player was stupid, should have passed the ball early or to head the ball but when doing it ourselves just making a 50m dash alone, you could see the death angels on stand by and beckoning you.
This just goes to show that in all of us there is natural goodness in our hearts. There is kindness, we could even resonate with the bullied and the underdogs, the poor, the weak and the unfortunate. We believe in justice and fairness. We have a capacity for doing good and we have a conscience of knowing right from wrong but it is always easier said than done.
Regretfully, when we go out into the world conducting our affairs many inevitably allow their animal instincts to take over. They forgot about consideration for others, kindness, helping others - the poor, the weak, the underdogs and the unfortunate. When they are wrong, they do not apologize, they become obnoxious, trample over others, are arrogant, they justify or find justification to pretend that they are right even though they know they are wrong.
They have forgotten what they have said when watching a movie how they wish those terrible things that will happen to the bad characters. We walk in and out of our character as we pleased and to our convenience. Let me tell you that all the bad and wrong things in life are very easy to do and achieve but good things only come to those who struggle, strive, believe and live the credo by choice. I want you to catch a glimpse of the movie Black Swan rated by many reviewers as five-star.
Sometimes, we can be like that character. Treading on thin ice. Watch yourself and take good care. Natalie Portman is an excellent actress evident since she was a little girl in the Professional: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns4vh_xAn98, if you miss this movie, make sure you catch it. Watch Portman, Gary Oldman and Jena Reno - one word: "Brilliant!" Would you be like Leon?
As Queen Amidala in Star Wars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jLs-lVa9gg and what about the character of Anikin Skywalker?
Watch this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6bEs3dxjPg and this to see how Anikin Skywalker, from a good Jedi knight turning to the dark side due his his thirst for power and becoming Darth Vader hurting all the good people including those very loved ones. Watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBpk6EQZUG8
Because when a person changes, he cedes control to the dark side and he has no more control to decide how bad he wants to be because darkness is the absence of light and there is nothing darker than dark which is simply without light but when there is light, you can make things brighter. A single candle can brighten a room more so with two, three and if everyone hold a candle and walk into a dark room, it immediately gets as bright as day. Let'slook at some movie quotes:
Movie Quotes
Forrest Gump Quote: My Momma alwasy said: "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you gonna get." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_M9WrTC_qM
Middle age is when your age start to show around your middle - Bob Hope
It's been a rough day. I got up this morning, put on a shirt and a button fell off. I picked up my briefcase and the handle fell off. Now I am afraid to go to the bathroom - Ridney Dangerfield
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight - Phyllis Diller
A man does not know what happiness is until he is married. By then it is too late - Frank Sinatra
You know the world is crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss holds the Americas Cup, France is accusing the US of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named Bush, Dick and Colon - Chris Rock
My husband and I fell in love at first sight. Maybe I should have taken a second look - From the movie Crime and Misdemeanors
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die - Mel Brooks
Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I am halfway through my fish burger and I realize, I could be eating a slow learner - Lyndon B. Johnson
Why should people pay to go watch bad movies when they can stay home to watch TV for free? - Samuel Goldwyn
Two things are infinite - the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe - Albert Einstein
The only time a woman really succeeds to change a man is when he is a baby - Natalie Wood
Conclusion
My friends, if you knew that everyone is reading you like a book. If you knew that everybody is watching you like a movie, would you do the same things that you have been doing or continuing your selfish streak? Or would you be a different person thinking, saying and doing things vastly different? Would you let your friends, your parents and children watch it?
What if no one was watching? What would then be your choice? Do you do things differently when some one is watching and when no one is watching? Doesn't that have to do with what you are doing rather than who is watching? Do you allow yourself to slither way down low to the lowest life form of those bad characters that you never failed to curse in a movie.
What if your life is really a movie and God is watching? From a distance.
Let Bette Midler tell you more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDSh5wUtXt4
Good luck and fare thee well. I hope I have provoked a thought.
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