Click, starring Adam Sandler, is the movie to watch for protracted ambitions and time wasted on the mundane, for those people who, with the tons of stuff they think they need to do to get on with life essentially forget what is the important thing about living.
life is not about making the most amount of money, the promotions, the highest post in any company. on the way to the top, you might have lost your loved ones, the time you may have spent with your kids, wife, parents, with your dog.
the movie moved me, releasing forth a trickle of lacrimal secretions. we want to be happy. I want to be happy. but the quest for happiness is not easy. it's not eternal, but it is not always short-lived. it is often thought of that money can bring you to happiness, and thus, establishing money's importance in this material world, when in fact, you can be really, truly be happy without it. but duh, how would you be able to continue doing the things that make you happy if you don't have the moolah to get you from day to day - you know you have to eat, pay the bills, et cetera. living does complicate everything, even if you only wish to live a simple life. no matter how much simplicity you want in life, people around you would not approve, would be expecting more from you, and you'd just be pressured, hence, happiness, or its or more desired relative, contentment, becomes something that is not easy to achieve, setting you on a path of, if not spontaneous combustion, a few decades of working your ass off just to taste even a small piece of it.
hence, the need to graduate as soon as possible. hence, the need to stop procrastinating, to do things like a serious student would, the type who would be the employer's first choice for a good-paying job right after graduation, the type who plans everything ahead of time. thus, spelling the need for me to give up my, quote-unquote, sources of happiness.
but no, i am not that kind of person. or i do not wish to produce that change within myself yet. or i may be simply scared that the i won't be able to live up to the changes demanded of me. i'm only 21, i'm still enjoying life. i'm still imbibing insights and going through various wondrous and sometimes forgettable experiences. i'm still enjoying the spontaniety afforded by this lifestyle.
my dear self, another of the debates mind-inherent which i have to resolve. and quick. there's not much time left. actually, i do not have much choice. i just have to condition myself, program my mind to accept that that is what is supposed to happen. it refuses to do so now, but as things stand, i think there's no other alternative for my future.
and here i am presently, seriously hoping, wishing that there would be.
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