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Random Thought #15

January 20, 2010

Many people look at pain, suffering, poverty, injustice, inequality and the likes and ask, “Why does God allow that?”. I ask, “Why do you allow that?”.

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Random Thought #14

January 20, 2010

I no longer want to live in the glory of past victories, or the pain of past failures. I want to be completely present in the now.

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I do not believe there are good or bad people; only people. We are merely as good or bad as what we do. Within all people is the potential to do both good and bad, and it is true we are formed by what we have done, and what has been done to us. But we are not those things. We are what we do.

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Where The Wild Things Are

January 19, 2010

I had mixed feelings when I heard my favorite childhood book was being turned into a movie. At first I was thrilled! I felt like a kid again, and was overwhelmingly giddy imagining the wild things on the big screen. But then I was kind of scared! What if the film makers mess it up? I would never forgive them.

So I waited for it to come out in South Africa, but it didn’t before I left for my two-month “holiday”. So I thought I would catch it in the States, but it was already off the circuit by the time I got there. And people I came across who had seen it had indifferent opinions if dislike. I knew I shouldn’t just trust what I hear and I should wait to see it myself.

I finally got my opportunity last weekend, and I was definitely not disappointed! I thought Spike Jonze did an amazing job of bringing the children’s book to life on the big screen; a task that I can imagine is as tricky as turning a nursery rhyme into an entire Broadway Musical. Max, played by (ironically enough a kid named) Max Records was brilliant, and the Wild Things were perfect manifestations of monsters that might live in the average angry young boys mind.

I loved the way Jonze was able to bring across the irrational neediness of an angry child through the characterization of the wild things. I realize that it was “different”, and maybe not what people were expecting, and maybe not a typical children’s movie, but I believe people who complained about it being “weird” and “no good” missed the point of the movie and maybe forgot that majority of the film was taking place not in a far off fairy tale land nor a real land, but in the mind of an angry, irrational, needy young boy who does not know how to show his emotion and is starving for attention.

I give it two wild thing thumbs up!

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Random Thought #12

January 19, 2010

As I stepped into the shower this morning I noticed several fleas jump off my legs. It was a whole gang of them. I guess I have a flea problem. But fleas don’t bite me. So I am wondering if it is actually a problem. I am wondering whether I should sentence them to a gassy death or maybe, just maybe, the fleas and I could live together in peace and harmony.

This is not a metaphor.

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Random Thought #11

January 19, 2010

Wallowing in self-pity (temporarily) feels better than taking any amount of personal responsibility (no matter how big or small) in a situation where you have been wronged. But out of that self-pity grows strong, thick, long, roots that go deep into the soil, holding you in that undesirable situation for an unnecessary extended stay.

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