Psych

I can't stop thinking. I think way too much. I've just finished the movie Garden State. It is so sad, if you think of the elemental role the film plays in the main characters. You have the main character (Zach Braf) who plays an indifferent adult, whose adolescent experience of a paraplegic mother's death plays an additional role. Then there's Sam (Natalie Portman), a friend of Andrew Largemen (Zach's character) who unwittingly helps him learn how to live life and enjoy it. Now I'm not going to write whether or not the means of enjoyment are ethical or not, but I am discussing the prime idea of being a human, viz. thinking individuals and their experiences. People who think are likely to think of what is right or wrong naturally. So I am not interested in ethics here. What I am interested in is just thinking. It is so funny how people come to think. We look at anything that could churn an idea in the simplest form. We can look at a bar (not an alcoholic bar but a metal one) and symbolize what it represents to us, the observer. Although it is nothing but a rod, we look at an experience that might reflect delectation or dejection. Today I found myself thinking of how relationships are so intermingled in the person's life. It makes you think, doesn't it? I remember reading vol.10 in the Shonin Jump's Naruto, and how the influence Naruto had on Sasuke. Naruto was changing the destiny of Sasuke. All Sasuke wanted was to kill, out of personal vengeance, his brother. Without getting into too many details, Naruto was changing Sasuke. This could not go well with the ominous Orichimaru. The dark ninja needed Sasuke's body; whatever his dark intentions are, they are not relevant here. What is relevant is the influence Naruto had on this Sasuke character. Many influences penetrate the mind when the interpersonal is meaningful to both the giver and receiver. I don't know why I began to think of this, but I know that it is important. Personal relationships are important. So get a friend. Pour your heart out to them.