Fantasy to Reality

I think there must be something about good movies and good friends that gets my mind all riled up, but whatever it is certainly keeps me from sleeping.

Tonight I watched the Social Network (2nd time). If you haven’t seen it yet, you need to because it is so beautifully done. Aaron Sorkin is a genius. One of the main themes within this movie is the idea of prestige. How we all want this exclusivity—to be apart of something that no one else is. We each want to be special or better than everyone else is someway. In fact we want it so bad that we literally gawk over celebrities, who by the way are still normal people, and we tend to care more about their lives then our own. We literally treat them better and expect higher standards of them for no other reason than the fact the we have chosen to do so. We watch every little thing they do and adore them or criticize them. We make fun of  a celebrity for putting on a few pounds while we ourselves haven’t been to the gym in ages. We’ll always rather fantasize about being great than becoming great.

It’s always easy to get lost in the things we wish we were doing now, but so many of us never actually do anything about it. How often do we waste our lives away as we constantly repeat to ourselves that when “fill in the blank” happens then I’ll chase my dreams. Then I’ll quit this job that I hate, then I’ll tell her I’m in love with her, then I’ll put effort into “blank,” etc. I want to encourage you to at least question yourself. What would happen if you just did that thing you are longing to do instead of putting it off with a bevy of excuses? The thing is that most of us are to afraid, because to try means that we could fail. But for me, that’s a risk we ought to be willing to take.