The Pursuit of Happiness
Salaams,
Hmmm...what to write about...?
Well nothing significant has happened since my last entry but instead lots of little things...work has been plodding away with reading for the CFA course i'm doing proving to be a vacuum for any free time i have in the evenings and weekend. Alhamdulilla i started taking driving lessons so inshaAllah in a few months i'll have a car to shove in NTI's face (Loser..)...what else...? Oh yeah i've been watching quite a few films recently at the cinema.
I never used to actually go to the cinema much back in the day (i went through a 3 year period where going to the cinema was haraam too...). Plus going to the cinema can actually be quite expensive (easy £10 with snacks thrown in). Anyway, yeah so i've been going pretty much every other week now as there's a large cinmea complex near where i live.
One of the best films i recently saw was "Apocalypto" by Mel Gibson..i think most people have heard about it, but if you haven't it's about life of some Mayan people in the South American forests in the 15th century i think and how the fall of a civilisation comes from the diseases from within that civilisation. It's a bit dodge tho, and i deffinately wouldn't advise any females to watch it (quite a lot of male nudity..)
Another film which sticks in my mind is "The Pursuit of Happiness" with Will Smith in it. Will Smith is Amazing in it (as is his cute son in the film who happens to be his son in real life too) and i remember experiency this kind of hypnotic feeling of "escapism" whilst watching this film...like you have no idea where you are, what day,week, month or year it is, but you're just stuck in this room watching this movie...i suppose i'm buying into all that Hollywood drivel they sell us..lol. Anyway the film was pretty good in terms of acting but the premise of the film i thought was ridiculous; a poor homeless man who wants to be "happy" and so decides having lots of money will get him this and sets out to become a stockbroker...i mean firstly what kind of message does this send out? well a false message for starters, but i think you get what i mean about equating money with happiness. Plus other things like when Will Smith says he always wants to be there for his son because his father was never there for him...so by becoming a stockbroker and working 70hour weeks he's going to do this...? whaaaaat...?!
Pants. Some interesting things were thrown up in the film..like how in the Maerican it says something like "every man has the right to pursue his happiness"...or summat like that. It's interesting as it throws up the wholw question of purpose of life etc which from an Islamic perspective i think is still difficult to answer. I mean should we even be seeking "happiness" in this life for starters...? How can we be "happy" with all the events that go on in the world...? What does it mean to be "happy"...?
'tis too late at night for me to be thinking about these things...
Salaam.
Ps, NTI (loser) you ain't getting no drive in any car of mine.
Hmmm...what to write about...?
Well nothing significant has happened since my last entry but instead lots of little things...work has been plodding away with reading for the CFA course i'm doing proving to be a vacuum for any free time i have in the evenings and weekend. Alhamdulilla i started taking driving lessons so inshaAllah in a few months i'll have a car to shove in NTI's face (Loser..)...what else...? Oh yeah i've been watching quite a few films recently at the cinema.
I never used to actually go to the cinema much back in the day (i went through a 3 year period where going to the cinema was haraam too...). Plus going to the cinema can actually be quite expensive (easy £10 with snacks thrown in). Anyway, yeah so i've been going pretty much every other week now as there's a large cinmea complex near where i live.
One of the best films i recently saw was "Apocalypto" by Mel Gibson..i think most people have heard about it, but if you haven't it's about life of some Mayan people in the South American forests in the 15th century i think and how the fall of a civilisation comes from the diseases from within that civilisation. It's a bit dodge tho, and i deffinately wouldn't advise any females to watch it (quite a lot of male nudity..)
Another film which sticks in my mind is "The Pursuit of Happiness" with Will Smith in it. Will Smith is Amazing in it (as is his cute son in the film who happens to be his son in real life too) and i remember experiency this kind of hypnotic feeling of "escapism" whilst watching this film...like you have no idea where you are, what day,week, month or year it is, but you're just stuck in this room watching this movie...i suppose i'm buying into all that Hollywood drivel they sell us..lol. Anyway the film was pretty good in terms of acting but the premise of the film i thought was ridiculous; a poor homeless man who wants to be "happy" and so decides having lots of money will get him this and sets out to become a stockbroker...i mean firstly what kind of message does this send out? well a false message for starters, but i think you get what i mean about equating money with happiness. Plus other things like when Will Smith says he always wants to be there for his son because his father was never there for him...so by becoming a stockbroker and working 70hour weeks he's going to do this...? whaaaaat...?!
Pants. Some interesting things were thrown up in the film..like how in the Maerican it says something like "every man has the right to pursue his happiness"...or summat like that. It's interesting as it throws up the wholw question of purpose of life etc which from an Islamic perspective i think is still difficult to answer. I mean should we even be seeking "happiness" in this life for starters...? How can we be "happy" with all the events that go on in the world...? What does it mean to be "happy"...?
'tis too late at night for me to be thinking about these things...
Salaam.
Ps, NTI (loser) you ain't getting no drive in any car of mine.
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