The World In Which We Don't Live

As I opened my front door this morning I was greeted by something we all take for granted: The World before us. Have you ever just simply looked at it? From my front door I see cars, people, trees, roads, the pavements on which we take our steps. The sky above. We take it for granted because it is there everyday. We know when we open that door we are going to get what we expect. But what we don't see is possibility. If you take the time to think about the possibility before you, it seems endless. The possibility that today you might see something you've never seen, or the possibility that today just might be your last.

I was being driven back from York. I had never experienced rain like what was beating down on the road in front of me. A sheet of water so thick it looked like the final battle from "The Matrix Revolutions", and any minute a million Agent Smiths would come into view ready to end the World. Although sight was minimal I noticed something in the distance. On the opposite side of the road was a car coming in the opposite direction, immediately noticeable as one of those huge BMW status symbols that rich people drive but don't really need. It was upside down, then upright but on it's side, then upside down again. It was bouncing high in the air, and crashing to the ground, rotating like a giant mechanical gymnast. Graceful, yet with powerful devastation. You know the feeling when you witness something your mind can barely comprehend, and time just seems to slow down to the point where you can visibly see a bird's wings flapping. Your mind is simply trying to process the image in front of you.

It was like something out of a movie.

You've probably said the above sentence to yourself and to others to describe events in your life without even noticing. People take trips around the World to visit monuments, experiencing them first-hand. It's like something out of a movie. Remember that first kiss you had with a significant other. Grabbing that person by the waist, the light brush of their soft skin on your cheek and the fragrant beauty being so close to your person. The feeling that no force was strong enough to unlock your lips after they first touched. And the first stirrings of an almighty hard-on. It was like something out of a movie. When the planes were flown into the World Trade Centre buildings on 9/11, the 9th of November. Pictures and videos that stunned our whole population. It was incomprehendable, unimaginable, destroying. Yet there it was, right there in front of you, even after you blinked. I remember people not being able to come to terms with the images staring them in the face, saying "It's like something out of a movie".

You see, the World in which we live is full of possibility. The World in which we don't live is full of endless possibility.

Films are a gateway to another dimension, where the only limit is imagination. Worlds built and created, stories crafted by amazing minds. We are blessed to live in this generation where fiction, science or otherwise, is visible due to technological advancements, and ironically they are one of the only things in real life where the possibilities are indeed endless. I hope it doesn't go all Skynet at some point, but for now it's definitely something to be heralded.

I watched Transformers: Dark of the Moon last week. It was in 3D Blu-Ray. I'm not saying it was a good film, because it wasn't. It was too slow paced, far too long, and the human emotion element that is used to tie you to the characters seemed like it was tacked on at the end like an afterthought. Like someone was playing pin the tail on the donkey, removed their blindfold, and still managed to put the pin on it's fucking forehead. You also couldn't pay me to enjoy Shia LeBeouf. But there was one scene, some stupid robot snake controlled by Shockwave was chewing the shit out of a glass building, and it looked amazing. More than amazing. Unbe-fucking-lievable. Someone created this. Just think about how much time was spent, how detailed this was. It was simply staggering. So while the film will never match the childhood excitement it invokes, it gives us something unprecedented.

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Harry Potter, Alien, The Matrix, Tron Legacy, Up. I could easily go on. There's a chance that you will have seen one, if not all of these creations. If you haven't, I suggest taking yourself to the nearest mirror, remove your head, and leave it there for a fortnight while you take a long hard look at yourself. Seriously, look deep into that detatched head and ask yourself "Why?". Inception for fucks sake. It's like the greatest people of their craft at the top of their respective games decided to get together with the sole purpose of creating something that would just blow my mind to a million tiny pieces.

Strive to be like the creators, not the workers. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with being a worker, I am one myself, but don't think for one second that's all there is. If you can see it, it can be created. In the World in which we don't live the only limit is your our imagination. Use it. Godspeed.