dude that commercial is awesome, i don't know why the guy hates it.

its quite the conundrum. one that i have struggled with myself. and while i dont have a complete answer for you, i can give you a partial one.

i was working in a field that i loved. but that choice came with many many sacrifices. i had to work 6 days a week, all hours of the day and night. i was making hardly any money. everyday posed a stressful (but excitingly creative) situation, and i had to work with backstabbing, bitter, awful people.

at the end of the day, i chose to leave that field. i basically looked at my life, and thought about what it would mean to stay in that field. i came to the conclusion that i would be giving up way to much, and that at the end of the day - i would be on my deathbed with nothing but work to show for it.

and i realized, doing what i love but not loving the rest of my life was the same as doing something that i hated for money. because everything has a value.

but then what to do? how do you find something else that you love and are passionate about? something that also fits into the kind of life you want to live? im still working on that one, but essentially i thought about what it was that i loved about my job. and what aspects of said job could be applied elsewhere. and then i looked outside of my career, and thought about what it is that i love to do no matter what. what is it that will get me out of bed in the morning even if i feel like i was run over by a 300 lb truck?

when you have that answer, you can see how to make it work. maybe you can just do that thing and make a living from it. or maybe you can do that thing, and something related to it so that you can support yourself.

in the end we'll all probably have to hedge our bets a little bit. but if at the end of the day, we can use our passions to be happy - thats all that matters.

you are perfect in many ways.. especially perfect for my...be jed, cappie, or michael S. F

do you suppose that S.M.F is anywhere near like his character in QL? I would be so interested to know that.

If I found out that i was going to die in a week, I'd probably write everyone i loved a letter, talking to them about nothing, and everything, something nice and personal, so they can remember who i was, and maybe learn some new things too.

on a side note, everyone you love, would know exactly how you felt about them, even if it wasn't said, people have a way of knowing those things. Though, I'd probably do the same thing in my note :p

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Same air, and sky...remember that and you will be just fine.

i agree with you the sixties were amazing and im a huge fan of the Beatles... i love across the universe and many of my friends thought it was bad but it was because they cant stand musicals or they didnt understand a lot of it. it's a really artistic and symbolic movie that you have to be open minded to really enjoy and if you love the sixties you should really see it because it includes a lot of different aspects of the sixties.

Horrible? Well as a total and absolute Beatles lover, I will say I loved it. I thought the way the used the Beatles music to depict the 60's was fantastic. I mean using "She's so Heavy" to depict carrying the weight of freedom while fighting in Vietnam? Pretty amazing. Not to mention that Eddie Izard was great. While it may not have been directly what the Beatles were thinking when they wrote the songs, they provide a wonderful social commentary. Maybe the people who didn't like it, should try it again, with a little more of an open mind.

it's a bizarre and beautiful movie musical, almost a music video at times, that uses thirty- three of The Beatles' songs. I kinda liked it but it was kinda dumb at times.