This Year will be Happy

In this new year (2009) i will make an infinite amount of scientific discoveries, and post all of them on this Blog.

Be Optimistic!

Happy New Year

We are all Buttons

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button:

I have to say that going into this film, i had some inhibitions that i was not going to be able to withstand the enduring 3 hours of David Fincher's tale. My assumption was quite incorrect though. There was something very magical about this film.

First off, visually the film was stunning. Fincher's job of the age processes of his characters was like nothing i have ever seen before. Every character aged and un-aged :) throughout the film, and even with the technologies that are put into films today rarely do you see perfections with the aging process, this is the first film to reach near perfection.

The magic of this film doesn't come from it's beauty though, but more from it's meaning. The film, in it's entirety, follows the backwards life of Benjamin Button, beginning his life as a baby trapped inside of an old body and ending his life as a old man trapped inside of a baby. At the beginning, the plot sounds somewhat foolish, and quite unrealistic, but the story of Benjamin button paints a huge message about life, and about old and young. It did not matter that Benjamin was born old, because "everybody ends up in diapers". You can do anything with your life, young old, it does not matter. The movie showed that in an old man's body, young Benjamin was still able to do adventurous things. Things that most old people do not even think of doing. Why not live your life for as long as you can? An important line in the movie, while Benjamin was returning to his old home, he said that "it isn't the outside that changes, it's you".

In the film, it is generally shown that older people lose there enthusiasm to do adventurous things, Benjamin's life shows that the ability to have fun as an older person exists, live your life, you can do anything you want to.

Fincher's movies always pack a bag of meanings into them, but this one of all is so truly relevant to everyone and anyone in this world. Age should not stop anyone from doing the things that they enjoy because for Benjamin, the fact that his life was reversed didn't change the fact that he did all he could do within his life. It's a great message from a meaningful movie.

Why do we Blog?

OK...do I expect many people to read this? No, frankly i don't. This is my first ever blog in my life. This is the first time, on the Internet, that I'm opening up past the realms of the overly used Facebook. Blog's are supposed to allow a person to open up to the world (which is the Internet), and express his/her feelings so that they can feel a sense of global worth in some cases. But as i sat down on my living room couch this last Tuesday, i realized that, you know what? this sh*t can be helpful! OK, well sort of...I mean there was a little bit of me that said that it can be helpful for me to express myself, but another part of me that said... how cool would it be if i could create the coolest blog on the web, and become globally known as someone who shares useful insights and helpful tips to problems. Then again, how many people say that same thing?

So is the goal of this blog to express myself to the Internet? Or is it to become the guru of everything and anything? Honestly, I have no clue what i intend to do with this Blog.

It took me 1 hour to make up the name of this Blog. Crazy eh? The end result was a combination of the first half of my last name (Etinson) and the word zone. Real original. During the process though, i was thinking of all the inside jokes and nicknames i have with friends, that would make a cool blog name. I even thought of a couple grade 6 nicknames that people had for me. It had been a long time since i thought about old jokes and nicknames, and in a therapeutic sort of way, it made me remember the funny times i had as a child, when reading 300 pages for a class wasn't a concern, and riding a bike with your friends was cool (it isn't now). So even though i came up with the lamest name on earth, I did myself justice by expanding my realm of thought through more than the present, but my past as well.

Then again, WHAT IF...and i really mean WHAT IF, i help a couple people realize how therapeutic a blog can be? And i become well known throughout the internet as, let's say, the "Blog Guy". OK wow, now i just sound crazy...nevermind.

Either way, I'll tell you one thing, Even if you don't know what to write in your blog, Hell, i don't even know what to write. Write something! Start a blog! it's worth it. You may catch a break and discover a magical ability to capture the readers of the Internet, or you may, in the likely scenario, find that simply expressing yourself to whomever wishes to read is a form of therapy, not necessarily necessary (sorry for that), but still helpful to relax for an hour or two and focus on YOURSELF for once.

I didn't write this to become globally known, and i didn't write this to simply express myself, and trust me, i didn't write this to sound like the spokesperson for Wordpress.com. I wrote this blog to think to myself for a bit. Albeit, it would be damn cool if i became globally known! Where this blog leads to, i don't know, and what this blog is about, i don't really know yet either, but for someone like me, that uses Facebook and MSN Messenger to an abundance, it's a nice getaway.