Is Life Worse Living?

If you're my friend, you likely know two very important things about me. 1.) I love sandwiches and b.) I hate movies. Haaaaate them. Like, cannot stand them. Regarding movies, I am of the idea that once you've seen a handful of movies from each genre, throughout the years they pretty much never ever change and with each viewing become more and more painfully predictable. Seriously...same characters, plots, subplots, cliched verbiage regenerated time and time again that in my estimation hardly ever evoke prolific deliberation or reflection afterwards.

Also, mostly it's just that I don't have the patience or lets be honest - the attention span - to sit still and actually focus on 2 full hours of the above mentioned nonsense.

Having said all of that...I found myself with little to do last night, and after just learning about how to scam the BigRedBox at Giant out of a free movie (promo code DVDONME) - I decided to give cinema another chance. Now, seeing as how I haven't seen a movie in about 3 years I got to the BigRedBox and had NO idea what any of these new releases were all about. Luckily I recalled a conversation I had a while back with an uncle of mine who writes a column for Salon.com called Beyond The Multiplex about the movie "Milk." Sticking with the friend theme, once again, if you know me, you know that I am only capable of paying attention - i.e. bored.com - or giving a shit, about the things that I'm interested in. So long story short - voila - one promocode later and I was on my way home to watch me some Sean Penn.

Now, I must admit the movie was pretty good and I can't say that I didn't zone out a time or two, but I will say this...I woke up this morning still thinking about a line and a theme that was repeated throughout the whole movie. At the beginning and at the very end Harvey Milk kept saying something along the lines of...

"I'm 40 years old and I haven't done a thing I'm proud of."

That's a pretty serious pronouncement. And it got me thinking. I'm 24 and have I done a thing I'm proud of?

Right away there are plenty, and I mean plenty of things that I have done that I'm not so proud of that pop into my head. But one of the things that I can unequivocally say that I am proud of is the book that I spent over a year helping with called Womenomics. Now, blah blah...you all know the deal with Womenomics...but I can't help but tie that the quote from Harvey Milk and a central theme throughout Womenomics about re-defining success for yourself into some bigger idea.

Think about it...