My feelings have been a mixed bag as of late. Mostly in relation to art and photography and cinematography and the kind of person I want to be and the kind of person I am at this exact moment and the list goes on. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty has been on my mind constantly since I saw it the first time. It has since claimed its spot at the top of my list. Yes, I am the most indecisive person I know when picking favorite 'somethings' and there. I said it. My favorite movie.
It earned that spot in a lot of ways. The cinematography is beautiful. Visual imagery like that is my language. I may not be very good at Spanish, but I can communicate with cinematography. And I want to. That is what I want to do, career-wise. But there are a lot of other reasons I think it is beautiful. The music, the acting, etc. I think it's a beautiful thing when someone is so passionate about a project and a message that they are completely immersed within it—I find all the ways that this was "a Ben Stiller" film to be inspiring. It's a magical thing when you can find someone that believes in something so completely in this wishy-washy world.
But more than anything I love it because of Walter Mitty himself. He is truly the definition of an unassuming hero. Those people are my kind of people.
I'm kind of exhausted of the loud heroes. Today, there is so much going on. And it's loud. And I feel like people have become loud. People are loud and they want attention and they want praise and they want credit and they want instant gratification and the want recognition and they want popularity and they want to be trendy and they want to feel better than other people. And that's what's glorified and encouraged. That is considered success today. It's exhausting. And that's not the kind of person I want to be.
Walter Mitty is an unassuming hero.
Unassuming: not pretentious or arrogant, modest
Synonyms: modest, humble, meek, reserved, unobtrusive, low-key, unpretentious, ingenuous
Dear world, what is so wrong with being humble? Why does everyone need to be proud and loud and the world's definition of 'important'?
I really believe that the best recipe for success is found in that quote in the picture. Maybe the loud ones will get the credit or the attention or the praise today, but I believe that the sincere, kind, diligent ones will be happy. Because they are true to themselves even when the world says that they are no recipe for success.
I think the words of a dear friend work well in explaining that being a Walter Mitty in a world of "Ted Hendricks" (played by Adam Scott those of you who have seen the movie) is beautiful and important: [the loud heroes] "are like running around with sparklers on the fourth of july, screaming with delight and loving every second of the bright light. But then after 30 seconds, the sparkler's life is over and the beauty is gone. But [Walter Mitty] is this light bulb. Reliable, reasonable, obvious, consistent, long lasting, and your beauty is different."
Notice that I'm referring to this type of person as the unassuming hero. Because they are heroes, just the same. I believe that If you aspire to be unassuming even after growing up in this loud, attention seeking world, you are my people.
It earned that spot in a lot of ways. The cinematography is beautiful. Visual imagery like that is my language. I may not be very good at Spanish, but I can communicate with cinematography. And I want to. That is what I want to do, career-wise. But there are a lot of other reasons I think it is beautiful. The music, the acting, etc. I think it's a beautiful thing when someone is so passionate about a project and a message that they are completely immersed within it—I find all the ways that this was "a Ben Stiller" film to be inspiring. It's a magical thing when you can find someone that believes in something so completely in this wishy-washy world.
But more than anything I love it because of Walter Mitty himself. He is truly the definition of an unassuming hero. Those people are my kind of people.
I'm kind of exhausted of the loud heroes. Today, there is so much going on. And it's loud. And I feel like people have become loud. People are loud and they want attention and they want praise and they want credit and they want instant gratification and the want recognition and they want popularity and they want to be trendy and they want to feel better than other people. And that's what's glorified and encouraged. That is considered success today. It's exhausting. And that's not the kind of person I want to be.
Walter Mitty is an unassuming hero.
Unassuming: not pretentious or arrogant, modest
Synonyms: modest, humble, meek, reserved, unobtrusive, low-key, unpretentious, ingenuous
Dear world, what is so wrong with being humble? Why does everyone need to be proud and loud and the world's definition of 'important'?
I really believe that the best recipe for success is found in that quote in the picture. Maybe the loud ones will get the credit or the attention or the praise today, but I believe that the sincere, kind, diligent ones will be happy. Because they are true to themselves even when the world says that they are no recipe for success.
I think the words of a dear friend work well in explaining that being a Walter Mitty in a world of "Ted Hendricks" (played by Adam Scott those of you who have seen the movie) is beautiful and important: [the loud heroes] "are like running around with sparklers on the fourth of july, screaming with delight and loving every second of the bright light. But then after 30 seconds, the sparkler's life is over and the beauty is gone. But [Walter Mitty] is this light bulb. Reliable, reasonable, obvious, consistent, long lasting, and your beauty is different."
Notice that I'm referring to this type of person as the unassuming hero. Because they are heroes, just the same. I believe that If you aspire to be unassuming even after growing up in this loud, attention seeking world, you are my people.
