Spy Kids: All the Time in the World (Robert Rodriguez, 2011)
I'm fifteen years old, and I'm drunk. At a bus stop. I'm with a friend, and a man is talking to us. My friend and I have dyed hair; green and red, respectively. The man is talking to us about music. About being in a band. I'm not in a band, but he thinks I am. He's talking about the state of music in what was 'today' at the time he was speaking. He's unhappy about contemporary music. Says it isn't how it used to be.
That man stays in my mind to this day. It is important to me to never be like that man. To never glorify the past. To be unhappy with the now.
The events which surrounded you in the past do not dictate who you are today. Nor do they dictate where you will go in the future. You are more complicated than that. There is more to life than harking back to a 'golden past'. There is what happened to you in the past, and there is who you are today, and there is who you will be tomorrow, and these are not interrelated, your future is not predetermined by your past.
In addition to that, there is how you spend your time, and the choices that you make. It is possible to spend time going the wrong way, looking for yourself in the wrong places. But once you recognise what your 'correct' path is, you can recalibrate, change.
This is often said, but it is true: The time you have on earth is short, and it is up to you to decide how to spend it.
This would be a good message to give to children.
That man stays in my mind to this day. It is important to me to never be like that man. To never glorify the past. To be unhappy with the now.
The events which surrounded you in the past do not dictate who you are today. Nor do they dictate where you will go in the future. You are more complicated than that. There is more to life than harking back to a 'golden past'. There is what happened to you in the past, and there is who you are today, and there is who you will be tomorrow, and these are not interrelated, your future is not predetermined by your past.
In addition to that, there is how you spend your time, and the choices that you make. It is possible to spend time going the wrong way, looking for yourself in the wrong places. But once you recognise what your 'correct' path is, you can recalibrate, change.
This is often said, but it is true: The time you have on earth is short, and it is up to you to decide how to spend it.
This would be a good message to give to children.