Tuesday, April 21, 2009

the spirit of benjamin button....

Some years before I have heard a quote in my favorite soap "Seinfeld".
Thus spake George Constanza "The lord of losers"

"The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends.
I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your
time. What do you get at the end of it? A death.
What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards.
You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you
live in an old age home. You get kicked out when
you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to
work. You work forty years until you're young enough
to enjoy your retirement. You drink alcohol, you
party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade
school, you become a kid, you play, you have no
responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go
back into the womb, you spend your last nine months
floating......... then you finish off as an orgasm."

The movie "Benjamin button" seems to be inspired from this.
Though the end is not happy for Mr. Button in the movie as suggested
by George, the idea is something astonishing ..so simple and surprising...

The alternate thinking sometimes does bring surprising statements to the fore
which makes up for the fun in life...

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