I watched this movie on the weekend and it just spoke to me. I think it will speak to a lot of people. It got poor ratings, but I don’t think they listened to the script. There are some real gems in there.
It’s your basic story of a middle aged guy that snaps and goes around the world looking for the secret to being happy. Along the way he gets into all sorts of things. The one that really hit me was his old flame in LA.
How many of us have a memory of something that is bigger than life. It could be a person, a city we visited, childhood memory that we carry around. It seems so real, so important, we spend years wondering should we have, did we, could we do it again.
In the movie the old flames basically says to the guy, WAKE UP YOU IDIOT, that was a long time ago. It is gone, over, dead, finished. Pack your mental belongings and grow the heck up.
It is like we take a snapshot and it magically stays frozen in time. Our minds build a palace or a prison around it and it affects us, sometimes, for a very long time. When in reality it is gone.
The person, the situation, the judgements, the ???, they are gone, changed, moved, different. Let your mind be as well.
I guess it’s the same old simple message, live in today, unless you need to remember the combination to your gym locker spend very little time in the past. Unless you are building your shopping list for camping. Spend very little time in the future. Do you best to enjoy now and you will be happier.
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Ward Willison
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