"Where do I start? It's not you. Well actually it is you. Look, I'm just not... I'm not attracted to you anymore. I need space. You kinda... you kinda gross me out. In the beginning it was different. In the beginning you were better. But then I got to know you real well, and I came to realize that you're a fat idiot."
Nick Beam
Nothing to Lose
1997
A suggestion for today's post... Nothing to Lose. As I reflect on this film I saw, oh 13 years ago.. and only saw it once, I think to myself.. hmm.. what if that philosophy is true. What if we have nothing to lose but an epiphany of opportunity to gain?
Are gains truly calculated based on monetary expenditures or, are we strictly judged by a calculator of wins and losses in life?
If you start to risk all to gain so much in return, are you attempting to gain so little to risk everything else as a constellation prize?
So, I at first ponder the concept of money versus a judge in character. Money doesn't buy you happiness it just makes life a bit more comfortable. Money enables life to co-exist with adventure, power and entertainment. Without money, would the world revolve on its axis so seamlessly? I would contest not. I would contest that once someone is given the opportunity identify worth through money, they are easily swayed that it will solve all their problems instantaneously.
Tim Robbins and Martin Lawrence play two oddly related characters in Nothing to Lose. When they stumble on one another because one of them wants to car-jack the other, the question arises, are these two compatible with losses or ready to bet the odds on their gains?
Each time I think about risk and the reward that people seek, I think about how sometimes hard work doesn't necessarily pay off monetarily. I think about how people are handed rewards without any punishment or teeth in the game. I think about times when I would give a million dollars to change a moment or a time I felt I lost everything I had emotionally invested.
Sometimes life and value are odd matches. Sometimes life and value are oddly related as critical to finding ones purpose for existing.
If I lived with the nothing to lose philosophy, have I essentially given up on everything I worked for previously? Or have I given myself a motive to find what I seek to gain in the form of simplicity? I know this movie was light hearted, fun witted and of course a cross connection of people versus their own choices.
But, I have to admit... you can't find what you've lost if you never had it to begin with.
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Try and convince the sons of this theory..:)
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Thoth...WOW.. powerful statement. I have to agree. Thanks for putting things into perspective. That is the goal and I wish everyone the power of comfort in living till you die with someone to stand next to you along the way. Thanks Thoth!