I can still remember the first time I ever spotted a mistake in a film. It was a massive spot at the beginning of ‘Jurassic Park’. At first there was the sheer disbelief and then after the third or fourth rewind, the unbridled joy that could only come from something this huge. This massive blockbuster film had made a mistake and better still I had managed to spot it!
After this first spot i started to notice more and more in films, films that I'd maybe seen before and never noticed and even new block busters that I went to see, I still found mistakes and it still made me happy. I visited websites where people discussed mistakes from different films, I even posted a few on there myself! It was here that I found out that they even employ people to combat this problem for individual films! But still they let John McClain walk into a room wearing a white t-shirt and leave wearing a beige one!
But recently I've started to change, every time I spotted one of these mistakes in a film, my initial feeling originally was excitement and amazement, now its disdain!
And its not just film mistakes, I have noticed this with a lot of things recently, I have started to become an angry person, I am only 22 for gods sake but every day i find things that annoy me now that i used to love. This includes stupid NOW compilations, Capital FM, Children's TV, Books with massive writing, my mother, balloons and even most sweets!
I think i have realised why this is... I have grown up and I love it!
Most people think of getting old as this terrible terrible thing that happens, whereas i look forward to it every day! When i was 14 i wanted to be 16 when i was 16, i wanted to be 18 and when i was 18, i could not wait until i was 21 and it is continuing now...
Why i hear you ask, well think about it, i know its an old saying but most things get better with age, Including me, every day i learn more, I understand things better. I grow in age height maturity and knowledge every day. This works for other things as well, technology improves every day, new exciting music is released every day, Its all just great!
Nostalgia is a terrible thing, its like heroin for old people, they walk around slapping their wrists, trying to find another vein saying things like “Things were so much better in the old days!”
Its not true! Look at everything that you do on a daily basis now, the Internet; owning a car; colour/HD/3D television; mobile phones; facebook and digital cameras, they are all modern inventions that have made our lives simpler and more enjoyable. Anyone who says things were better in the old days is just wrong!
After this first spot i started to notice more and more in films, films that I'd maybe seen before and never noticed and even new block busters that I went to see, I still found mistakes and it still made me happy. I visited websites where people discussed mistakes from different films, I even posted a few on there myself! It was here that I found out that they even employ people to combat this problem for individual films! But still they let John McClain walk into a room wearing a white t-shirt and leave wearing a beige one!
But recently I've started to change, every time I spotted one of these mistakes in a film, my initial feeling originally was excitement and amazement, now its disdain!
And its not just film mistakes, I have noticed this with a lot of things recently, I have started to become an angry person, I am only 22 for gods sake but every day i find things that annoy me now that i used to love. This includes stupid NOW compilations, Capital FM, Children's TV, Books with massive writing, my mother, balloons and even most sweets!
I think i have realised why this is... I have grown up and I love it!
Most people think of getting old as this terrible terrible thing that happens, whereas i look forward to it every day! When i was 14 i wanted to be 16 when i was 16, i wanted to be 18 and when i was 18, i could not wait until i was 21 and it is continuing now...
Why i hear you ask, well think about it, i know its an old saying but most things get better with age, Including me, every day i learn more, I understand things better. I grow in age height maturity and knowledge every day. This works for other things as well, technology improves every day, new exciting music is released every day, Its all just great!
Nostalgia is a terrible thing, its like heroin for old people, they walk around slapping their wrists, trying to find another vein saying things like “Things were so much better in the old days!”
Its not true! Look at everything that you do on a daily basis now, the Internet; owning a car; colour/HD/3D television; mobile phones; facebook and digital cameras, they are all modern inventions that have made our lives simpler and more enjoyable. Anyone who says things were better in the old days is just wrong!
If you take one thing from reading this blog today then please take this...
You've got to move on, you cant keep sitting round thinking of how good your life is at the moment or was 10 years ago, because every moment you sit there thinking about your past you are missing out on the now. You've got to try new things, i know its cliched but you have to do something new every day, do something every day that scares you.
That is how i live my life... live in the now... not in the past!
So go on, turn off your computer, step outside and try and learn to ride your bike with no hands, especially if you have never done it before, i bet it will scare you, but that's the point!
