If you haven't seen "Up in the Air" yet, I suggest you do. It may look like that "it looks kinda boring" type of movie, but it def isn't. IMO at least, I very much so enjoyed it. Not that typical type of movie you're used to watching in front of a big screen. It's 'that' thinking type, the type where you wanna jot down all the quotes...
There were many memorable moments in the movie, but a couple I would like to mention. This one was used when George Clooney who plays Ryan Bingham was giving a speech and he says... "How much does your life weigh? Imagine for a second that you're carrying a backpack. I want you to pack it with all the stuff that you have in your life... you start with the little things. The shelves, the drawers, the knickknacks, then you start adding larger stuff. Clothes, tabletop appliances, lamps, your TV... the backpack should be getting pretty heavy now. You go bigger. Your couch, your car, your home... I want you to stuff it all into that backpack. Now I want you to fill it with people. Start with casual acquaintances, friends of friends, folks around the office... and then you move into the people you trust with your most intimate secrets. Your brothers, your sisters, your children, your parents and finally your husband, your wife, your boyfriend, your girlfriend. You get them into that backpack, feel the weight of that bag. Make no mistake your relationships are the heaviest components in your life. All those negotiations and arguments and secrets, the compromises. The slower we move the faster we die. Make no mistake, moving is living. Some animals were meant to carry each other to live symbiotically over a lifetime. Star crossed lovers, monogamous swans. We are not swans. We are sharks." FOOD FOR THOUGHT!
Something else he mentioned towards the end of the movie was a quote which I used as the post title... "Everyone needs a co-pilot." To anyone who loves being single, or the idea of being single for the rest of their life. As in not having that one consistent person to share life with and what it's about. Have you ever played this thought in your head? I mean, maybe you're thinking about it now, and you're only in your 20s or 30s... is this what makes you content? Coming from someone (myself) who always said "I don't actually 'need' a man, i can be content without one," this was of course before I had met my bf... I really believed that I was ok with the idea of not having that consistent person in my life. I was ok with that idea of "well it doesn't bother me if I don't have a labelled relationship even when I reach 30." When I look back at the things i said more than a year ago, I think about how happy I am now. I mean yeah I was happy then, but was I entirely content? NOPE! Every time I heard "oh I can't tonight my man and I are gonna watch a movie," I would sit back and think, damn this kinda sucks. What could be so great about being in a relationship anyway. I wasn't content in my previous relationships, therefore the idea of that "consistent" person in my life wasn't important.
There were many memorable moments in the movie, but a couple I would like to mention. This one was used when George Clooney who plays Ryan Bingham was giving a speech and he says... "How much does your life weigh? Imagine for a second that you're carrying a backpack. I want you to pack it with all the stuff that you have in your life... you start with the little things. The shelves, the drawers, the knickknacks, then you start adding larger stuff. Clothes, tabletop appliances, lamps, your TV... the backpack should be getting pretty heavy now. You go bigger. Your couch, your car, your home... I want you to stuff it all into that backpack. Now I want you to fill it with people. Start with casual acquaintances, friends of friends, folks around the office... and then you move into the people you trust with your most intimate secrets. Your brothers, your sisters, your children, your parents and finally your husband, your wife, your boyfriend, your girlfriend. You get them into that backpack, feel the weight of that bag. Make no mistake your relationships are the heaviest components in your life. All those negotiations and arguments and secrets, the compromises. The slower we move the faster we die. Make no mistake, moving is living. Some animals were meant to carry each other to live symbiotically over a lifetime. Star crossed lovers, monogamous swans. We are not swans. We are sharks." FOOD FOR THOUGHT!
Something else he mentioned towards the end of the movie was a quote which I used as the post title... "Everyone needs a co-pilot." To anyone who loves being single, or the idea of being single for the rest of their life. As in not having that one consistent person to share life with and what it's about. Have you ever played this thought in your head? I mean, maybe you're thinking about it now, and you're only in your 20s or 30s... is this what makes you content? Coming from someone (myself) who always said "I don't actually 'need' a man, i can be content without one," this was of course before I had met my bf... I really believed that I was ok with the idea of not having that consistent person in my life. I was ok with that idea of "well it doesn't bother me if I don't have a labelled relationship even when I reach 30." When I look back at the things i said more than a year ago, I think about how happy I am now. I mean yeah I was happy then, but was I entirely content? NOPE! Every time I heard "oh I can't tonight my man and I are gonna watch a movie," I would sit back and think, damn this kinda sucks. What could be so great about being in a relationship anyway. I wasn't content in my previous relationships, therefore the idea of that "consistent" person in my life wasn't important.
Now I'm finally sitting at that stage where I have that one consistent person I can share jokes with and vice versa. I can talk about my day, I can makes those 'movie' plans for the weekend... or just stay home with him and do absolutely nothing and be content. I love the fact of love, but being in love is even more amazing. I was never the type to be falling head over heels for someone, I hated showing my feelings and always had a facade on. I didn't care to share life with someone else, it wasn't important to me... but when you come across that person, everythiiiiing changes. Now I sit here and realize when Ryan Bingham by George Clooney says "everyone needs a co-pilot" I def find this statement true. You may not feel like you need one right now, but believe you... me, that day is bound to come.
Again peoples... watch the movie, you will not be disappointed :)
Again peoples... watch the movie, you will not be disappointed :)
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