Life Comes At You Hard
Today was, well, another day. Nothing special I'm playing the waiting game. I'm slowly packing up my belongings (meaning I think about packing everyday). With London less than 5 weeks away its hard to narrow my life down to a few boxes and suitcases. An now that I can't take my Ipod with me on the plane, that flight is looking less and less fun.
But the title of this BLOG entry is "Life Comes At You Hard". I bought the brand new Criterion DVD of Noah Baumbach's film Kicking and Screaming today. I had never seen it, but heard how great it was and figured the hefty Criterion price was worth it (I had a discount at Borders as well). The film is terrific. Centering on the post graduation lives of a group of friends, it does a very exacting job replicating my current life to the screen. I still live in the town of my college. I still hang out with my closest friends from said college. Heck, I even worked at the school for my first post-undergrad year.
But the movie really reminded me of how I'm getting older and not accompishing much. I mean, Orson Wells wrote and directed Citizen Kane when he was my age. The greatest movie ever made! By a kid.
I'm not trying to sound self loathing or depressed. Actually it just shows how much I can still accomplish, how young I am, and how London is a clean, fresh slate for me to start anew. And I can't wait, cause those Brits don't have a clue what they're in for.
By the way, everyone should get Kicking and Screaming. In fact, they should make it mandatory that all students who want to graduate college must watch it as part of their requirements.
posted by C. S. Schneider @ 9:52 PM
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That is a very bittersweet post I have to say. At 32, I often wonder myself whether I should have accomplished more with my life by now. Have I not done the things really needed etc. But that always comes back to comparisons to other people. Everybody's life is their own, I think that there are 10 million different types of success. Find the right one for you I say. You're gonna love London.
This is a comment for ma'boy lynch and for Chris. This is going to sound so disgusting and petty, but my first real realization that I might not be a world-famous...anything was when I was watching the Academy Awards when Gwyneth Paltrow won. I read in the paper that she was younger than me, and I thought, "That sucks. She's younger than me and she has an Academy Award." That's also the first time that I started realizing that my idols in Hollywood are going to continue to get younger than me...that I'll start looking down on my idols instead of up at them. It was that moment when I turned from chicken to chicken-hawk.
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