Life = Movie
I recently came across this lighthearted article while being bored to death at work last week. It's about living your boring, mundane lives with style (not to be confused with being high maintenance) and courage of conviction and to ask ourselves the question - What would the heroine in your life movie do?
The pessimist in me is snickering: If that's the movie of my life, the heroine will be exactly like me, if the actress and production team did their homework - and that means, it's not a very watchable movie. But the optimist in me grins back: Wouldn't it be lovely if I can see myself and my life through the lens of a camera, that my mundane existence is a story beautiful enough to be on the big screen (haha, yes, big screen, no made for TV movies for this gal!)
If my life was a movie, would I feel embarrassed at the little Malaysian made car I drive, with it's slightly dented behind, spoiled brake lights and perpetual mess? No, I would be confident that it's a little quirk I have, an amusing quirk if you ask the giggling security guards at Le Meridien carpark, who after opening my car boot to check for bombs, found an explosion of mess in it. Took them several minutes to try and close the damn thing back. And they had the gall to laugh. I'm thinking, well at least there's a reaction, rather than the yawn inducing sports coupe driving in front of me at that time, no personality at all.
In the movie of my life, even my dead end job will be eventful, in the sense that even the littlest things will be interesting. Everyone's personalities and quirks (oh most definitely!) are amplified and day to day life becomes like a 9 hour episode of The Office. Mine will be called The Studio.
Even my Facebook (yes, half of my life is lived there nowadays) has a life of its own, maybe it will be in a completely unrelated cartoon sequence. I try imagining it in a cartoon sequence...come to think of it, it is a bit cartoonish, it's not the real world but the friendships made from it, the interaction and the emotions derived from it...well it's like a jolly little piece of animation.
I could go on and on, but maybe it's just this...if you imagine your mundane little existence as something more, and live accordingly, it will hopefully turn out to feel a lot more magical than we could ever hope for.
The pessimist in me is snickering: If that's the movie of my life, the heroine will be exactly like me, if the actress and production team did their homework - and that means, it's not a very watchable movie. But the optimist in me grins back: Wouldn't it be lovely if I can see myself and my life through the lens of a camera, that my mundane existence is a story beautiful enough to be on the big screen (haha, yes, big screen, no made for TV movies for this gal!)
If my life was a movie, would I feel embarrassed at the little Malaysian made car I drive, with it's slightly dented behind, spoiled brake lights and perpetual mess? No, I would be confident that it's a little quirk I have, an amusing quirk if you ask the giggling security guards at Le Meridien carpark, who after opening my car boot to check for bombs, found an explosion of mess in it. Took them several minutes to try and close the damn thing back. And they had the gall to laugh. I'm thinking, well at least there's a reaction, rather than the yawn inducing sports coupe driving in front of me at that time, no personality at all.
In the movie of my life, even my dead end job will be eventful, in the sense that even the littlest things will be interesting. Everyone's personalities and quirks (oh most definitely!) are amplified and day to day life becomes like a 9 hour episode of The Office. Mine will be called The Studio.
Even my Facebook (yes, half of my life is lived there nowadays) has a life of its own, maybe it will be in a completely unrelated cartoon sequence. I try imagining it in a cartoon sequence...come to think of it, it is a bit cartoonish, it's not the real world but the friendships made from it, the interaction and the emotions derived from it...well it's like a jolly little piece of animation.
I could go on and on, but maybe it's just this...if you imagine your mundane little existence as something more, and live accordingly, it will hopefully turn out to feel a lot more magical than we could ever hope for.
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