i watched jim carrey’s bruce almighty on cable rerun this morning and i think i never really appreciated it the way i’m raving about it right now. [[hmmm, maybe not raving. just... okay, appreciating.]] i’ve seen it twice already before today and not that i’m obligated to like it more this time but i think i actually do. made me realize that some things in life are to be seen or experienced many different times and under many different circumstances before any good amount of sense could ever really come out of them. bruce almighty, for one, just gave me a whole new perspective about something i haven’t been very good at: making plans. now i think i’ll be whiz at it.
of course, making something out of the plans is another story. but i think the movie did burst with lessons, only unfortunately, they almost drowned under all that jim carrey comic.
in the movie, bruce could do anything and everything he could possibly conceive in his sometimes twisted mind… everything EXCEPT anything that came in the way of another person’s FREE WILL. we know that’s how the movie played basically. well, while watching it, i had this sudden burst of bright light in my head (not dead) about that not-getting-in-the-way-of-others’-free-will being an element in the matter of plans. ya, plans. plans we make about our lives. plans we make about our children’s lives. plans our children make on what to ask santa for on Christmas. even plans that civil engineers make.
doesn’t it just make sense that we can make all the plans we want with such accuracy and precision and a thousand-percent success expectancy rate EXCEPT EXCEPT EXCEPT when the plan involves the free will of others? for example, if a student aspires for honors at graduation, he will mostly likely get it if he plans well enough what to do with his time. he gets his honors because of his outstanding performance and that clearly does not leave room for anybody to have to want or not want the honors awarded ( unless in situations you don’t even want to talk about.) there’s no free will here except the free will of the person planning which is, of course, given. but here’s what… when a guy courts a girl, he can have all the plans in the world where to take her, what to give her, how to kiss her, how to make her feel like a woman, a queen, a moviestar all in a day’s work. but if the girl won’t let him, he’s dead. he’s as dead meat as all his plans and it would be like there were never any such plans to begin with.
di baaaa????
it’s sad sometimes, but that’s just the way it goes. after watching the movie this morning, it’s all written up there in my head: DO NOT EXPECT FROM PEOPLE. it’s not a very positive way of looking at it but why would you believe your plans are perfect when there’s somebody out there who just might have his own plans getting in the way of yours? or EVEN if he doesn’t intend to? great if you both have the same goal in mind but what if you don’t? where would it leave you? okay, you can plan alright even if it involves other people’s free will but just DON’T EXPECT. AT ALL. you can plan how much to save up for next Christmas, how to do your hair for that new year countdown party, you can plan a diet, how to lose this much weight over this much time, where to buy the best tokwa if you’re trying to build muscle or whatever. but hell, don’t expect to win anyone on your side by doing any of those. you can try. we can try. that’s the risk of being human and being alive and being happy. but if you keep having plans that will ultimately involve other people’s own plans and decisions - wwwweeeewww - you should be so outta there.and i’m outta here. for now. i’m so crashing. timecheck: 3:04am.
ciao!
