Sunday 16 August 2009

Running away from...?

Today, I've seen Usein Bolt run. He's a 6 Foot 5 Olympic Jamaican runner. He makes it all look so easy. He looks so free when he runs, he runs and wins effortlessly. I'm not a fan of sports, ha! me? I prefer Pool and yoga.
Thing is, with this Olympic winners and world champions, they are nice people. You know why? Because they know how much effort it takes to get to the top, they know... pain. They know endurance and resistance. They know so many things us mortals take for granted or ignore most of the time. Let's take the people around me today, earlier on this Sunday at my local pub. Loads of families having lunch, some couples, friends... they have this undeserved smug look to themselves. Most of them are overweight and have a look that says 'I deserve and WANT it all' Like spoiled children. First world people look like the spoiled children of mummy 'time of abundance' and daddy 'easy access'. This greedy people want and get usually the following non-essentials: new television set. check. designer crappy clothes to cover their gigantic bodies. check. holidays somewhere (usually Spain). check. £67.000 debt on credit cards. check. You see, athletes don't have those problems, those superficial needs or those worries... They know effort, perseverance, patience and all those other boring words that most people can't even find a meaning to.
Athletes from poorer smaller anonymous nations, like Jamaica here, they become celebrities, they've done something a very tiny selected few of us will ever do: they've broken barriers.
My dear audience, why not look at runners and jumpers for inspiration instead of increasing so rapidly the size of your belly guts, I ask? why? WHY?
If you're not that into sports its OK, neither am I and I can still see what this people do and can give... I'm sure we all have a potential perfect physique that can be develop if we worked out a bit... yeah Im sure... and whilst you're in that Mr gym (you know who you are) improve that brain of yours as well, a personality will get you more girls.
When I grow up, I want to be like Usein Bolt and be a Jamaican celebrity.

x
azile

Friday 7 August 2009

Goodbye Lenin!


Like they say: better scare than bore your audience.
Do I have an audience? I don't even know. But I have a voice (a tiny voice but whatever) so I'm gonna use it to recommend you this film.
I had a film marathon tonight, I made myself some dinner and sat looking forward to 8 hours of films. It was amazing. Dear audience, watch this one film though. It'll be good for you. It is so emotionally charged, in a 'we're just living life' sort of way. Its original, and even though it got some awards in 2003... everyone should have watched it. Every other film I watched after it tasted like plastic. I can't tell you any more because you should watch it.
GoodBye Lenin! <=== Watch it.
Directed by Wolfgang Becker.

enjoy
x
azile