Movies and Life

Watching movies are one of my favorite forms of entertainment. Sometimes when you are really into a movie, you tend to forget that you are watching a movie and you believe that this is happening in real life. Sometimes movies are really creative like SAW or Minority Report, while other times they can be dull or boring. But the latter depends on the person and what type of movies he/she generally watches. When I really admire a character in a movie, sometimes I try to acquire that character’s personality and incorporated it or blend it with my own. For instance, I recently saw the movie 300 and the main character Leonidas, showed a tremendous amount of courage when he and his men decided to stand and fight the Persian army of one million soldiers. He fought even though he knew that odds were highly stacked against him and that he was in all likely hood going to die. That courage and determination he demonstrated throughout the movie was something I personally admired; I had this sort of temptation to try to be just like that and not complain about the daily hassles of life and its problems. Rather than mope around about problems with school work, stress, etc. I strive to fight all of these issues with everything in my disposal and even though I may not always accomplish my goal, I can at least tell myself that “hey you gave it your best shot and at least you didn’t just sit there and complain.” It's movies like these that sometimes motivate us to strive to be better in every aspect of our life and they may even bring out the best in us.