78 posts tagged “tv”
If you've got access to cable TV (or XBOX Live), one of the best new documentary shows on Television is Human Weapon, a show about various martial arts of various countries, hosted by Jason Chambers and Bill Duff.
After arriving in art's origin country, it usually follows this pattern:
Get challenged by art's master:
Learn a few moves:
Learn a few more moves:
Learn another handful of moves for good measure:
Have the masters show off some cool moves:
Then, after four days of training, fight a grand champion in that art and hope to all that is holy that they do not die:
Overall, a fun, great, entertaining show that is actually educational! Highly recommended!
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"The people you work with, are people you were just thrown together with. You don't know them, it wasn't your choice. And yet you spend more time with them than you do your friends or your family, but probably all you've got in common, is the fact that you walk around on the same bit of carpet for eight hours a day. And so, obviously, when someone comes in, who you have a connection with. And Dawn was a ray of sunshine in my life. It meant a lot. But if I'm really being honest, I never really thought it would have a happy ending. I don't know what a happy ending is. Life isn't about endings is it? It's a series of moments, and erm...it's like if you turn the camera off, it's not an ending is it? I'm still here, my life's not over."
Okay, so I started off from a quote near the ending. It happens. Seen Shimotsuma Monogatari? Kinda worked, didn't it? You never really know how things are going to end...because they never really do (not even death can do that, if you think about it...not that I'm encouraging anyone to test this statement). Sure, there are what you may consider some chapters in your life that have closed...but another one begins right after that. Sure, some may hold off moving on to the next chapter by leaving a bookmark and just taking in all the events, thoughts, and emotions that came over them from going through the previous chapter (which is fine), but eventually, you'll have to come back and keep reading the rest. It may be hard for some to move on after a sad, seemingly unforseeable, but otherwise inevitable event (like, you know, Chewbacca dying a horrible death-by-moonsquash), but still, the page is turned, and the next chapter is read. Why? Because the story isn't over...there may be more tears and sorrow and insanely large objects falling from the sky afterwards...but at the same time, there may also be more smiles and joy and exploding Death Stars. How else are we going to know if we just decide to stop everything? Sometimes, it's not easy to flip the next page...but are you really willing to just ignore the characters that you have somehow found yourself caring for?
...you know what, it's 0053 right now, and I just realized that the previous paragraph was not really the point I was trying to make tonight. Oh well, it's already typed. Let me just move on to my actual point, then, which is:
Obviously, when someone comes in, who you have a connection with. And Dawn was a ray of sunshine in my life. It meant a lot.
You
can have the most mundane/boring/horrible/thankless job on the planet,
and you'd find yourself staying for just one person who you work with,
either because it lifts your spirits just to see him/her every day, or
because you have formed a friendship or some sort of bond that just
seems to make every day a good day as long as time is spent with them.
I had one when I was attached to a Naval Shore Detachment in Norfolk
(Jenny, who I still keep in touch with to this day, and will do so for
the rest of my life...unless she tries to murder me for some reason.
That kind of thing really puts a strain on relationships, you know?).
Sure, a lot of the people we worked with were wound up, psychotic,
passive-aggressive, or just plain stupid, but I was able to tolerate
that simply by the fact that I can talk to her every day at work and
have some salmon and cream cheese sushi with her during breaks. She
kept me sane (and at times, still keeps me sane...unless she's bored,
then she drives me psycho just to entertain herself), and I will be
eternally greatful for that. Any single person can make a difference
for another...she made a difference in mine, and (I think...can't give
you 100% accuracy unless I ask her, which I won't, because I'm not an egomaniac)
that I made a difference in hers). I know it sounds irrational (which,
really it is), but if you feel strongly enough about someone, all you need is one reason to stay that throws every last reason to leave completely out the window, and vice versa.
It is now 0114...I really should be unconscious. I guess I'll leave you
with one of the last lines of the original series, spoken by David Brent:
"A philosopher once wrote you need three things to have a good life. One, a meaningful relationship, two, a decent job of work, and three, to make a difference. And it was always that third one that stressed me, to make a difference. And I realise that I do. Every day, we all do. It's how we interact, with our fellow man."
