When you're stuck, it's never good. If you've got dreams, goals, and expectations, it's time to go out and get to it. You don't want to waste any time, right?
Oh, I know it's easy to say this. It's so simple to think it and feel it. But how hard it is for us to jump the gun and do it. I wonder why. How hard it is for us to let go our heavy feet and run run run. Maybe we're all just too afraid of failure. What's this thing which keeps us from going out and pursuing our dreams? What stops us from living our life freely like we want to? Why does it get so hard to breathe? What makes us numb?
In this clip from the movie Little Ashes, the lovelorn Magdalena tells her writer crush to go out and live. She loves him but she knows that she must let him go because he doesn't want her. He wants something else in life. Something much more different. He's stuck in a world that censors total freedom but he harbors hidden desires to be set free. With his broken heart, he commits to poetry but lives with fear. He conforms and embraces what's handed to him. But that can be dangerous. Magdalena tells him so.
"Look
I'm not saying it's going to be easy.
But I don't think you can carry on like this.
I mean, you can.
Of course you can.
But it has a price.
I think sometimes we just have to risk it.
Live the way we feel.
And you know
it might not turn out well.
Sometimes it doesn't turn out well at all.
But we have to try.
We have to keep on trying.
Otherwise, we just become puppets,
all painted smiles
where inside nothing but sawdust."
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- e. evan ortiz
- I've got a lot to say but rarely ever get to say it. That's why I'm here. I'm youngish, college educated, shy, strong, and in love with simplicity. Just out here to fill in the empty spaces. It seems we've all got things to say these days, but it's finding a way to let it all out that really counts. Read up and enjoy the ride.
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1 comment:
It is very easy for us to encourage others to do what they want to do, to fight their battles, to stand up for themselves and speak up to their ideals and opinions, but when it's our turn, those encouraging words become noise to the deaf. I personally can testify to this because it's happened to me so many times and then comes the "what if I'd have done it", "would my life be different?" and many other regretting remarks with which we punish ourselves when all this could have been avoided from the beginning. I have seen that we, as human beings, get accustomed to the way we live, whether it be in a personal, professional and even an emotional level; we, most of the time, don't pursue our goals and dreams and bitch about where our life is going but we don't do anything to change the path of it. We should be like Magdalena in this movie, and push ourselves to live the life we want and need to, fight for what we want, your dreams, my dreams and be happy about it. It may not look easy to do in the beginning but it will all be worth it at the end, otherwise we shall always be "puppets with painted smiles".
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