in life, the little things make all the difference…

Go see the movie. DO NOT WATCH THE TRAILER.

I’m not the smartest guy in the room, but I am pretty good at piecing together a story. My “healthy” obsession with the theatre is partly because I love movies and partly because I really enjoy the trailers. However, I’m not sure if my long lost love (the trailers) and I will continue to pursue our relationship. LUCKILY, I did not watch the trailer for this one. In fact, I knew nothing about it besides the fact that Jessie Eisenberg and Justin Bartha were in it.

I was able to see it with no reservations, not expecting anything at all. The film business is at an interesting point in their existence… how can they continue to get people to the cinema when pirating is happening 24 hrs a day… Seems like they are stuck between a rock and a hard place. They’ve got to compete with everyone from the 15 year old genius in Russia to my guys on Canal Street who are selling 3 for $20, don’t quote me on the deal though. So yeah, these movie guys, they are practically giving away the movies for free these days in hopes a build a buzz Youtube in hopes that the box office statistics might boost their fees on the next deal. One might rival that if you can deduce the meaning in the trailer it may not be a film worth watching…well that might be true, but certainly for another conversation – preferably over a nice bottle of Maccallan… “the single malt.” I think moving forward, it might be time to stop watching the trailers: entirely. I am enjoying the idea of being surprised… with no of where the ship is going (long pause) at least in the cinema I do.

Fast forward a few hours…

For some the quest for love can be a cold: a lonely road that often makes some feel that their self-worth = net worth. We changed our appearances, tax brackets, residences, hoping that this would make us happy. Change is a touchy subject if it comes from a genuine place it could be the best word written in our existence. On the other hand, when in the wrong mental state it could possibly be the catalyst of your demise. The reality of life is that no one really knows what they want and quite often when we do its not the best thing for us. We lied to ourselves thinking superficial things would favor us a better outcome. Heck, even after peddling contraband across the Atlantic Ocean we still have to do this thing called, “marriage.” I wont mention the divorce rate because it doesn’t apply to us – we are different, right?

We play, “dress up” with our lives, minds, bodies to hide ourselves in public – only to come home to the sad reality that happiness is neither aesthetic nor monetary. Our most beautiful supermodels don’t look the way we see them in print… After the makeup, retouching, photo-shopping, etc, but gosh we want to look like them. Plastic surgery is rampant, I know many of teenagers who have had procedures. Not judging them either, but something is inherently wrong with the value system of our societies if this is what we have been reduced to. There is a beauty in the imperfections of people, at least I feel. For me it all adds character and I I enjoy finding joy in the things that everyone else has no idea exist.

The paradox that exist between religion, wealth, and love is always an interesting one to consider especially when being told from a fresh perspective. Inhibitions and temptation exist regardless of religion and apparently even in the Orthodox Jewish Community.

I enjoyed it: it was quite the delight. It was authentic. It could have been better, but then again everything can improve. Are you the type to make something and say this is what it is or are you the one who finds that the art is actually the pursuit of perfection because you’ve been there and know what it feels like.

For all that feel there is always a quicker way, nothing worth accomplishing is ever attained easily. Short-term hiccups will often push a person to make decisions that can create a traumatic long-term failure. Watch the decisions you make everyday, because they might be the beginning of a bad habit that could pose a threat to your existence.

I heard somewhere that, “obsession is a young man’s game.” Our shortcomings can often consume us: drive us to chase all of the wrong things. We want everything that we never had, a cocktail of supplements to fill our stomachs with emptiness in an attempt to hide our fear. We lack love so we turn to lust and money. Searching for attention. We obsess over ideas thinking they can change who we are. Change for the better because you would like to live a healthier/fuller life. Work to be successful because you want to succeed not because of the attention that you might attain.

It never seems as if the sun is shinning on you when are faced with rejection, but it still is.