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Movie Review: Yes Man
by Bhetti Ameen
The world's a playground. You know that when you are a kid, but somewhere along the way everyone forgets it. 
I do want to take guitar lessons. I do want to learn how to fly. Yes, I would like to learn Korean.
Jim Carrey plays a banker who says yes to life; this means according to a personal development guru that he must say yes to every opportunity that presents itself.
I consider this movie a fun and funny must watch before making your New Year's resolutions. If you've ever liked Jim Carrey's style, you must watch him in this.
Life is limited. I don't know about you but I feel my tenuous mortality and the encroaching passage of time. Nevermind the unambiguous prospect of death: I can feel the prospects of responsibility, duty, family, growing and tying me down in ways I won't predict and ways I already feel. We need to live every moment, have stories to tell.
You need to make every moment matter. And what matters is what matters to you. Living a good life, a constructive life, one where you grow, one where you've experienced as much as you can, learned different things or became an undisputed master of a field.
You could live life like you'll live to a 100. A responsible, future-oriented and community conscious human being. You could live life like you'll never see tomorrow. Spreading joy, having fun and repenting now. These two attitudes aren't mutually exclusive. They have something in common: make every moment matter by not wasting it.
Don't waste. Don't 'kill' time. Time is too precious to kill whether it's your last moment or a foundation for your future. Don't waste it on ill-health, on hurting yourself and others, on cheap experiences, on doing nothing. Quality. If you're going to try a smoke, make it worth it. Smoke a top class blend, not the cheapest cigarette.
If you're drowning in boredom and ennui, if every movement seems hardly worth it, if you're not feeling purpose running through your arteries? You're doing it wrong.
Inertia and fear shouldn't hold you back. Fill your life with activity, philanthropy, friends, learning, work and experiences. Summon the energy and quiet the insiduous voice of antisocial laziness. Savour the silent moments all the more for their rarity.
Embrace being human.
It's what I tell myself to get me out of bed. It's what I'm telling you. It's what Alex has said too.
Embrace living.
Yes Man on Amazon and Amazon UK.
Source of emo:
Emo Boyfriend
Why force yourself out of bed
Why force yourself out of bed when sleeping in is so much more rewarding. Comfort is the ultimate animal pursuit. Once I begin abusing the welfare state I'll be set! And video games are a great way to spend leisure time!
You've swallowed the pill
"Fill your life with activity, philanthropy, friends, learning, work and experiences. Summon the energy and quiet the insiduous voice of antisocial laziness. Savour the silent moments all the more for their rarity."
The point of life is to get rich as fast as you can so you don't have to work anymore, I've already retired at 32. Suckers like most people work, smart people make money and have other people work for them, while suckers ponder their existential questions fearing they didn't get to have the free time they wanted so badly. They convince themselves of the their own nonsense believing themselves superior to those the deem beneath them. I am a nerd and I will never have to work for anyone ever again, while you get to help save the lives of assholes all the while you sacrificed all your time for career. Now you feel you can't manage the overload of responsibility and lack of free time for personal growth and enjoying others company, so any free time you do get will get with friends and whatnot will be cherished. Welcome to the REAL world, where the fantasy of fulfillment via career and responsibilities all on you is a load of shit.
There is nothing wrong with lazying around all day doing whatever you want, like reading great books, watching good movies, playing videogames, etc. Just most people don't have the money to do WHAT THEY WANT. The whole point of getting rich is to get away from such plebeian thinking, leisure is a virtue, almost all great wisdom came from the wealthy who had abundance of leisure time, Plato certainly was not a plebe.
The best life is a life of leisure with the option contributing to society by working on stuff that really interests you. If it wasn't the best life, the rich wouldn't defend themselves so heavily from the middle and lower classes with the army and the government.
Just Do Something
In this post, I was saying just do something that matters. When I say work, I don't necessarily mean a job with an employer. I mean something that truly gives you a sense of achievement.
Some people can be self-driven; free time is a boon. Others need to be told what to do and encouraged to do it; free time is a hazard where they drown and convince themselves their inertia isn't choking the ability to be happy out of them. I personally can swing between both states, not really having tasted my time truly taken away from me by my own occupational choices yet.
Congratulations to you. You're doing it.
I am doing something lol
Doing nothing, is doing something, it's called relaxing. I'm sure many people think corrupt is a total waste of time, but you think it is worthwhile. One mans garbage is another man's treasure, we should all remember that.
You're right about retiring
You're right about retiring early and living a life of leisure. But the question is what you do in that leisure time? It's perfectly okay if you sucked the poor dry and retired to a mansion before you were thirty. But then play video-games? How about marrying and raising beautiful kids and teaching them how this horde of zombie-like cretins that work pointless jobs all their lives, eat junk food and grow old as decrepit wrecks who do nothing but curse the government came to be like they are? Pass on timeless values in your children. If you're beautiful and intelligent, and managed to escape the dirt as Alfred said in one of his posts, leave behind human beings of equal quality, and teach them why they're where they are and why they go to exclusive schools, and live in a mansion safely away from the herd.
Edit: Of course the end to a perfect life, after you've raised your kids with a clear vision of the future and a grip on reality, would involve you acquiring an automatic weapon, driving out to a slum, and there laying waste to as many poor people as you can.
Permaculture.
If you ever have a lot of money, start up a Permaculture. If you're unsure of what this is, just check this video out - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw7mQZHfFVE
Seriously? hah nerds ftw
"But the question is what you do in that leisure time?"
This is exactly why non nerds are so boring, how the fuck could you NOT fill your free time? I love learning with a passion. I have so many ideas in my head that I've been able to work on in my own free time, right now I'm writing a book and some other pre-book writings on things I want to write about, it's friggin awesome when you aren't under a deadline you can do whatever you want on your own time instead of being forced to try to "produce" great stuff on demand which is part of the reason so much shit in society is mediocre. Things take time to bake in your mind and congeal with age, I'm sure you'v noticed it yourself.
My parents are wealthy and were horrible parents, I am also working on a book on how not to fuck up you nerdy kids. So many parents are just abhorrently bad at raising children by killing their natural curiosity for life and learning - i.e. most people never regain their natural curiosity after school and work because the are itching for free time, when you finally do have the free time, stuff that once seemed like "work" becomes a whole new world of opportunities.
I could go on and on there's so much shit you can do when you don't have to work for others.
Ideas Need Experiences
My dilemma is that I usually get five million ideas when I'm too busy to implement them, due to being at full throttle work mode and all the associated experiences and knowledge gains.
You don't speak like someone
You don't speak like someone who is comfortably retired and enjoying life at 32.
You do speak like someone who has retired, however.
Rofl
"You don't speak like someone who is comfortably retired and enjoying life at 32."
LOL internet man thinks he's god, I'll tell you what, how bout we exchange emails and meet in person and you can decide for yourself if I'm really not rich? I'll take your challenge you little moron.