Hindsight

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… for movies at least…

"Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world." - Jean-Luc Godard

Welp after spending several hours working on an episode only to realize that it wasn’t going to work, I had to resign to pushing the SotPA a week earlier, but this does mean that November has 4 Sundays worth of things to come!

Although this movie is old enough to be able to get a driver's license and practically everyone has seen it, I’m not one of those people, so in this episode, we’re venturing into the land of the dead!

"If I touch a burning candle, I can feel no pain. In the ice or in the sun, it's all the same. Yet I feel my heart is aching." - Emily (Corpse Bride)

The Tales From series returns with an episode that I probably should’ve done a long time ago seeing how I’ve done episodes on the other fast food places that I’ve worked but for some reason I’ve never done one on the very first job I ever had, well all of that changes today!

"Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it." - Karolina Kurkova

Self-Made - adj; having become successful or rich by one's own efforts.

History: "Self-made man" is a classic phrase coined on February 2, 1842 by Henry Clay in the United States Senate, to describe individuals whose success lay within the individuals themselves, not with outside conditions. 

And just like that we have made 300 episodes of the Hindsight podcast! What a journey these 300 episodes have been, of course there is still 65 more episodes to come in season 1 and I think it’s official at this point that there will also at least be a season 2 so there are plenty of episodes on the way!

Typical stream of thought for me, in thirty minutes, I go from talking about accidents and freight truck engines to the philosophy of politics...

"No one really wants change, they just want a return to how things were when they were happy, and that is impossible." - John Kalu

What’s scary than a kid that is possessed by a demon or ghosts, a kid who hasn’t been trained on how to handle themselves in public…

"Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you." - Robert Fulghum

I think that the level of self-criticism that we have is outrageous as we set unachievable goals for ourselves and then we beat ourselves up for missing them or the bigger problem is that we fail to remember our wins whenever we face losses. I think that both are just as important as both offer us a valuable lesson. In victory, we learn what to do and in defeat, we learn what not to do, at the same time we have to analyze our victories for possible shortcomings, we also have to analyze our losses for things done well and then work on the things that we need to work on without diminishing the things that we succeeded at.

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." - George Edward Woodberry

So I’m somewhat breaking the rules of the October First Impressions episodes by watching Dune, but c’mon, it’s freaking Dune!

"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic." - Frank Herbert, 'Dune'.