(500) Days of Summer
“Loneliness is underrated”
-Joseph Gordon-Levitt, (500) Days of Summer, 2009
This quote stroke me by it’s simpleness. It got me thinking… how much we believe that we need the company of other humans, it makes us feel special. The truth is there isn’t a better time than the time we have by ourselves. It’s a crazy thing how so many people feel the need, the urge to have other people involved in every occasion of their lives, and this bullshit becomes such a universal thing that we even do things, attend to events just for the sole purpose of being there. It’s not like we even want to be there. It’s not like we enjoy it. Sometimes we don’t even care about the occasion, or the people involved in it. It’s just a commitment. You have to be there because it’s supposed to make others feel accompanied, like somebody actually cares. Bullshit. Nobody really cares about anyone, other than themselves and perhaps a handful of people (parents, significant others, kids). Everything, and everybody else is just dispensable. Hell, even the previously mentioned characters can not exist actively and you could still live with it. I say, to hell with pretensions. Let’s be natural to ourselves. Let’s do what we have fun doing. If I don’t enjoy being somewhere, going somewhere, whether it’s a friend’s party or a meeting, if I prefer doing something else, then I’ll do whatever the fuck I want to do. It seems like such a natural thing, so logical. Everybody looks for happiness but nobody does anything to achieve it. I think we should worry about ourselves before we care about anybody else. I am first, what I fucking want to do is second and everybody else can go piss themselves at third. It sounds so normal, but still everybody does things, attends places, says things and talks to people because they think they need to, because this society tells us to behave this way. Fuck it. I’ll do whatever the fuck I want to do.
Let’s not shit ourselves, people. (500) Days says a lot about relationships and even society. I know it isn’t just me over thinking it.
