Filesharing

Well this is annoying.  This is the second blog ive done where it just magically deletes itself.  Worst part is that I dont remember what I was talking about in this post, but wutever here goes.

In todays world, more and more things are becoming available to people with less effort required.  One thing inperticular is music.  Everybody loves music, but not all people want to pay for the music they want.  People don’t want to have to go to the store and buy an entire CD just for one or two songs.  So people tend to download music from websites such as Limewire, bearshare, or kazza.  People do this because its quick easy, and most importantly its free (even though its illegal.)  My thought is that, if more and more things are becoming available to people without having to move, will this be the source of the good life, instead of family or ones health?  Will people like the idea of being able to get what they want just from their computer without having to move at all?  Well for me that would be pretty boring.  I can’t sit still for a very long timebefore I get bored.  I can’t imagine people doing nothing all day and considering that the good life.  If people move less then they do now, they might start to develope obeses problems or something along thoes lines.  Then again in the future there might be a quick and easy cure for that.  Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t possibly live my life, waiting to reach the good life of sitting by my computer doing nothing.  Then again maybe some people can and will do that in the future.

“The Good Life”

Over the past eight weeks, we have watched movies and read books that are supposed to depict the good life.  The truth is, there is no good life.  People grow up, get an education, get a job, and work for about thirty years to retire to hopefully start the good life.  The good life is different to all people.  Some enjoy their family and that being with them is the good life enough.  Others want to be left alone, aloof if you will.  They enjoy peace and quite in their own house or wherever they choose to life.  It takes hard work, and a lot of time to eventually reach a persons so called “good life.”  With enough hard work and time, you can eventually reach the good life.  The main point of this blog is supposed to help us to figure out the good life for ourselves.  I think by writing this blog, it makes me appreciate how good the good life will be, when I get to that point in my life.  You shouldn’t throw you life away and wish for the good life at an early age, because lets face it, most kids don’t reach their good life at a young age.  Also don’t wish your life away wishing you were like just about to retire, because you will have missed all you life long lessons along the way.

Pleasantville

The following quote is from the movie “pleasantville,” “It’s always gonna be like this. I have the right house and the right life and the right car.” David replies saying “There is no right house, there is no right car.”

David has the right idea. To have the perfect life, some people think that they have to have the perfect house, or the perfect car, or even the perfect life, but they are not entirely right. To live a good life, people don’t need to have the best of everything. They don’t need the most expensive stuff that money can buy. To live a good life, it all depends on how a person interprets a good life. Some people are happy living together with a family, and making it day by day. Others enjoy having extra money to buy expensive things that may make them feel good, or cover up the fact that they don’t have that good of a life, they just have expensive cover items. Some people unfortunately in life don’t reach their good life, either not having money, or not having a loving family. There are obstacles that stop you from reaching the good life, but with time and patience the good life can be reached. David learns this at the end of the movie, from his experience in pleasantville.

“Pleasantville”

Towards the end of the movie “Pleasantville” by Gary Ross, George talks to his wife, Betty after he arrives home from work to find no dinner.  He talks to her and says “you’re gonna come home at six o’clock every night and have dinner ready on this table.”  To him, this is the only way he knows life.  He wakes up, eats breakfast, works, comes home and says ”honey, I’m home”  where he is greeted by his family, and a big dinner.  This to George is the good life.  This is how it has been for his entire life being married to Betty.  For people, the good life maybe be very similar, or very different, depending on how one looks at it.  For me, the good life is having a family, a big house, a brand new car, and maybe go on vacation every so often when I have the extra money to go somewhere with my family.  To George, all he knows is what he is used too, and that is getting a big family greeting when he walks in the door.  This is what the good life maybe be to George, a totally different idea of a good life between him and I.