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Quoted By: >>784764126
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE-3e2YLvIM
i'm not exactly an oldfag by definition, but i'm old and i've been here for almost 9 years. i'm 41 and well, i'm well over my "mid-life crisis". i fully understand "american beauty" now, and the mid-life crisis is summed up perfectly at the beginning and illustrated throughout the film.
the concept is that you 1. feel dead because 2. you don't know what you need to do to feel alive and 3. you want the thrills that you know work but 4. you don't care the same way about doing things the way you used to feel you had to. you don't give a fuck, you want to get some, and you go for what worked and still works. that's what we see him doing in the film. i went through it a little earlier than him, at age 39-40, and i also understand the "seinfeld" 34-year old as well as the "homer simpson" 38-year "my life is half over!" concepts... except homer isn't really conscious of his "mid-life crisis", he's actually still "in" "it"--"it" which i will explain in a moment--and feels spurred to get more life because of "it".
the human race never lived past about 40 for hundreds of thousands, or basically millions of years, since we were a tree shrew; not fucking monkeys... they're distant cousins you fucking idiots. being advanced tree shrew makes more sense because monkeys aren't scared of heights and we are and tree shrews were probably not as confident about heights and we never developed the hands/feet/muscles for climbing that fucking primates did.
what's my point? i just began to accept that half my life must be over, most likely, and you can't really begin to accept that until you get OUT of the preprogrammed INSTINCT of your first 40 or so years. once that instinct is RUN OUT--the record is in the lock-groove lead-out ticking after it's done--then you need to find your own way to reach into yourself and one of the things you need to do is realize your attitude about longevity. this time it's real, and your life is half over.
i'm not exactly an oldfag by definition, but i'm old and i've been here for almost 9 years. i'm 41 and well, i'm well over my "mid-life crisis". i fully understand "american beauty" now, and the mid-life crisis is summed up perfectly at the beginning and illustrated throughout the film.
the concept is that you 1. feel dead because 2. you don't know what you need to do to feel alive and 3. you want the thrills that you know work but 4. you don't care the same way about doing things the way you used to feel you had to. you don't give a fuck, you want to get some, and you go for what worked and still works. that's what we see him doing in the film. i went through it a little earlier than him, at age 39-40, and i also understand the "seinfeld" 34-year old as well as the "homer simpson" 38-year "my life is half over!" concepts... except homer isn't really conscious of his "mid-life crisis", he's actually still "in" "it"--"it" which i will explain in a moment--and feels spurred to get more life because of "it".
the human race never lived past about 40 for hundreds of thousands, or basically millions of years, since we were a tree shrew; not fucking monkeys... they're distant cousins you fucking idiots. being advanced tree shrew makes more sense because monkeys aren't scared of heights and we are and tree shrews were probably not as confident about heights and we never developed the hands/feet/muscles for climbing that fucking primates did.
what's my point? i just began to accept that half my life must be over, most likely, and you can't really begin to accept that until you get OUT of the preprogrammed INSTINCT of your first 40 or so years. once that instinct is RUN OUT--the record is in the lock-groove lead-out ticking after it's done--then you need to find your own way to reach into yourself and one of the things you need to do is realize your attitude about longevity. this time it's real, and your life is half over.
