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You against The World.

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I could think that the sky is purple. People have blue hair, orange hands and feet. It rains tacos. All the trees are red due to excess of r-phycoerythrin. Our blood is blue and penguins run the government. Would I tell you these thoughts? Maybe. Perhaps you would laugh. And say. 'Damn, did you stop being sensible or something. Haha that's so funny.' But perhaps, it makes perfect sense to me. We all think thoughts we don't say. For fear of being looked at as different or weird. We all do things that everyone else does. For pretty much the same reasons. We follow trends. We have our preferred self identities. How real are these identities? Are they really us? Why do we care so much about what people think, when they aren't supposed to matter. Let's take this, a step at a time. Lets go on a journey to find ourself a new motto to live by- that it's just us, only us- against the universe. Bewildering diversities of thoughts and lives, Yet the common...

A Movie Called Life.

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Shakespeare had said- “All the world's a stage and all men and women are merely players.” Or rather, Jaques from 'As You Like It' did, but that's besides the point. The point is that I was watching the Lego Movie. And oh my god is it the best movie ever. What makes it the best movie ever? Not only does it have a great message, it also actually inspired me to write this blog post. The movie, starts out to be your regular run-of-the-mill animated comedy, and moves on to create a connection between the real human world and the Lego universe. What the cute little kid Finn imagines with his toys, translates into the actual movie we are watching, and the characters are living. * mind blown* A movie within a movie- Movie-ception! Which led me to thinking, maybe this bubble called life is nothing more than…a movie. A movie that we act in, direct, produce, write, create an original soundtrack of, so on…and finally view and review. So perhaps the point really was what Shakes...