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Published On: Jan 27, 2005 08:32 PM
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Published On: Jan 27, 2005 08:32 PM
George Bailey and real life...
"Maybe it'd be better if I was never born."
"You mustn't say that."
"Oh yeah? Well why not?"
--
"No, worse, he's discouraged."
"You mustn't say that."
"Oh yeah? Well why not?"
--
"No, worse, he's discouraged."
In the movie version of reality you
spend your life trying to help people, putting them above you, and trying to
make a better world. You spend your time with those you love and some of those
you hate and in the end you hope that you've made a difference that people would
be saddened to see gone.
In the movie version, you get a chance to see where you touch people and how it is worth more than anything. You get the big finish when you realize that life is more precious than money and that no financial or otherwise mundane thing could ever trump what it means to be alive.
But, in the movie version, you don't have to go to jail or have the bank examiner take your house over the missing $8000. In the movie, your enlightenment is all the audience sees, but in the background the rest of the cast is piling money well in excess of what you needed to avoid the whole thing in the first place. There is always some Mary to call and tell everyone who cares about you that you need a basket of money. There is always someone to say their prayers for you and Someone to send Clarence.
In real life, you can screw up and bounce back and do the right things only to have someone who decides to screw with you put you in the exact opposite of what you have worked so hard to build. You can go from building toward owning a house, rebuilding a family for your kids, and starting to save for a future and end up losing your house, moving back to a shit-hole, and starting over with an enormous debt that you got when you lost the rest of it all.
In real life, you get another chance to be patient and to rebuild. You get to tell your kids that there is another bump in the road and hope they want to ride it out with you. You get to become cynical about doing things for other people.
The real life version really sucks. Even the enlightenment is hard to come-by, but the reality is, as they say so happily in Lawyer-ing circles when discussing "scorched earth" strategy, "you get taken to the ground."
In the movie version, you get a chance to see where you touch people and how it is worth more than anything. You get the big finish when you realize that life is more precious than money and that no financial or otherwise mundane thing could ever trump what it means to be alive.
But, in the movie version, you don't have to go to jail or have the bank examiner take your house over the missing $8000. In the movie, your enlightenment is all the audience sees, but in the background the rest of the cast is piling money well in excess of what you needed to avoid the whole thing in the first place. There is always some Mary to call and tell everyone who cares about you that you need a basket of money. There is always someone to say their prayers for you and Someone to send Clarence.
In real life, you can screw up and bounce back and do the right things only to have someone who decides to screw with you put you in the exact opposite of what you have worked so hard to build. You can go from building toward owning a house, rebuilding a family for your kids, and starting to save for a future and end up losing your house, moving back to a shit-hole, and starting over with an enormous debt that you got when you lost the rest of it all.
In real life, you get another chance to be patient and to rebuild. You get to tell your kids that there is another bump in the road and hope they want to ride it out with you. You get to become cynical about doing things for other people.
The real life version really sucks. Even the enlightenment is hard to come-by, but the reality is, as they say so happily in Lawyer-ing circles when discussing "scorched earth" strategy, "you get taken to the ground."
Posted: Wed - January 26, 2005 at 06:18 PM