This Is Your Life

'This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time' - Tyler Durden, Fight Club

That's quote is just a fancy way of saying 'YOLO'. It just sounds a lot more depressing yet so true unless you're Captain Jack Harkness. 

So, we're all basically dying... Don't go and give up on life just yet please. This is a pretty big revelation. You've just realised and possibly accepted your inevitable death. 

Great. 

Now go and do stuff.

But don't be a dick.

Please, be nice to people. Treat everyone as a human being. This is not an excuse to suddenly blow your nose with bible pages and drink your life away in a muppets mug. Go and do something and make a name for yourself if you want.

Tyler Durden's whole philosophy was that we're never going to get noticed so we might as well wreck shit and see what happens - hopefully send a message about our generation. 

It's slightly true but at the same time it's complete bullshit. We all do matter, everybody matters really and we're noticed by a lot of people. If you're reading this and you think nobody notices you or cares about you then you are wrong because somebody in the world cares and knows you so please calm down.
Tyler was right, we should send a message but at the same time we shouldn't wreck stuff. Let's all try and be nice and put an end to capitalist crap (alliteration makes me smile). Being an idiot isn't going to help.

If you feel the need to start a revolution or get noticed then fine, go for it, but don't riot, that only makes things worse. It's hypocritical peace. 

Forever Wanting to be a Character

I think we all connect with characters and have favourite ones mainly because we want to be them. As a child, it didn't matter what TV show or film you were obsessed with, you would often pretend to be a character. For me, I was obsessed with The Lion King and always felt the need to dress up and pretend to be Simba and make lion noises (I am still proud of those amazing noises to this day). But the reason I loved Simba so much was simply because I connected with him.

Don't get me wrong, my king-father wasn't murdered by my evil uncle and I didn't run away - it's just because I wanted to matter, and I suppose I still do. I didn't want power, I just wanted to matter to some people - lonely children don't get that luxury.  

However as we grow older, we don't become obsessed and dress up, we tend to just fall in love  or connect with them. For me, growing up in high school for the first few years was a bit of an odd one. I didn't really matter but people had started to get to know me in my last two or three years. 

Then one day I watched Fight Club... I couldn't even comprehend that film. But Tyler Durden, he for some reason amazed me. The way he accepted that he just is and that we all just are. That's what I really needed: acceptance of myself and others (my acceptance may not have worked 100% until recently...). To this day I still find my self talking for my body parts, just like him:

'I am Sam's bladder who just decided to fill up and piss him off.'

Sometimes I think of characters like The Doctor and how amazingly cool and nice he is and how he can protect people without using violence, how he really matters to people and doesn't notice it. That's one reason people relate to him, we all matter to plenty of people but none of us realises just how much.

A character is essentially a concept. And like every other concept, if it sounds quite good then you will most likely love it. Favouring a character is normal. I suppose we love them because we either relate to them or want to be like them. 

With me loving Simba, I wanted to matter just like him. With Tyler, I looked up to his acceptance of life. 

Character's are amazing.

It's really beautiful when you think about it.

I am Sam's last sentence.