It’s a phrase that stays in my my mind, the phrase ‘the strangeness of life’ from Napoleon Hill. I was watching the movie Safe with actor Jason Statham and that brought me to my jealousy again with movie stars and other successful people. Something like “I think I’m more intelligent, have better education, etc., etc., so why can’t I be rich and famous”. And I think that’s a very valid question. When reading about famous and/or successful people I do keep reading though that often some day in their life they met ‘some other famous person’ who made their break possible. And that’s exactly what I feel like I missed, but that’s also exactly what this site is all about. Give you that ‘break’, that inspiring person. And maybe this site is my ‘break’ as I see quite some opportunity in it, to pass my message, my ideas to the world. And be famous for that. The only issue for me is still that as far as I know I don’t know any person who would give me that ‘break’ I’m looking for.
However, that’s not what I really wanted to write about tonight. What was in my mind was all those things about how we have organized our world, what I was watching. And I was watching a movie that indeed is made perfect with most likely all people who are successful in what they are doing and very good where maybe indeed Jason Statham and the other successful people related to that movie go the extra mile where I don’t do that. But that’s not the point. The movie is made perfect as all good and famous Hollywood movies are. But the story is weird and there is an awful lot of violence in it e.g. And I am watching it and enjoying it and kind of believing it, kind of letting it in. And it has nothing or hardly anything to do with real life. The story, the killings, the car chases, the fights. But I am watching it and letting it in, together with all the commercials around it.
So somehow we have created a world where movies are partially paid by big companies advertising their products that are about a life that is not real. And we are taking it in, the whole thing, the story, the advertisements, the fights, the car chases, etc., etc. So knowing that I know now this would influence my thoughts, my thinking and especially my subconscious mind. And until recently I used to do that without any real thinking. So I let these crazy things ‘the industry’ wants me to believe in. These crazy thoughts from things, organizations that are bigger than me, in size, in power, in influence.
And I’m not against that. I’m not against entertainment. I have been enjoying this movie although I don’t like the ‘action part’ that much. But I am starting to believe that we, virtually all humans, all humanity, is taking these things in too easy, too much without thinking, too much without realizing what it does to us, what it does to our thinking and therefore also with our acting.
So better be a bit more conscious what you are watching and what it does to you. And then better just pick the positive as I also found that virtually all movies have some deep thinking behind them, some positive message.