Yesterday, I watched a movie starred by Jim Carrey and Zoe Deschannel titled 'YES MAN'. In that movie, Carl Allen (Jim Carrey) was a person living with kinda a sucks life. And one day, one of his friend suggested him to live the life by joining the self improvement programme called 'Yes Man'. He followed that suggestion.
In that program, Carl made a covenant that every time to an opportunity presented itself, no matter what it was, he would say 'YES' and if he broke that covenant things could get a little decay. He obeyed that covenant. Starting from saying 'YES' to help one of homeless , to take flight , Korean language and guitar courses, to attend a 'unique' band show, to attend a costume party hosted by his weird job partner, to approve all the loan applied to him (FYI: his job at the movie was a credit assessor), and other spontaneous things. Because of those actions, his life got better. He really lived his life .Even there were also some terrible problems caused by his ability to say 'No'. Overall that movie is so obviously meaningful.
The lessons I can take from this movie are:
#1 Everybody has privilege to choose, either saying 'YES' or 'NO' to every opportunity presents itself.
#2 There won't be any regret if we live our live. On that film, there was a statement from Allison (Zoey Deschannel) I love most:
"The world's a playground. You know that when you're kid but somewhere along the way everyone forgets it"
Yeay...
Why don't we fill our life with ton of joy and happiness just like we did while were a kid?!?
Well...A few days ago, I got a chat via Yahoo Messenger with Raka. FYI: He was the minister of Sport Department in KM ITB cabinet 06/07 -Izul's period- and I was his secretary at that time. His YM status at the day had been 'being like Australian' and then he changed it into 'living like Australian'. I asked about the meaning of his status and then he explained that he were at Australia at that time. He planned to stay there until May next year. He told me that he was in his vacation and during that long vacation, he planned to apply job there. The job might be a dirty job first and then if there was a chance he wanted to apply as urban planner -matching with his education background.
Then I asked him why it should be so far away to get job and his answer was simple: he wanted it. He wanted to enjoy a pieces of time in his life. He said that his life was just once, and he would fill it by doing anything he desired to do. So when his death came on the edge of his throat, he would say that he had been pleased of his selves and had no regret at all.
Wow, I never thought before that a kind of straight-lined person like Raka could have that idea like that to filling his life. I really envy him. He's such a kinda of 'Talk less Do more person. I felt so ashamed. I always talk about my dream to live my life, but none action I had taken to make them come true.
#3 The thing that will always block our way to live our live is our own silly or unreasonable scare. In the YES MAN movie, Carl was so scare that he hadn't been enough for anybody. He was scared that he had nothing to share with another people. But then he threw away his scare. To live our life we often need to ignore all the doubt and scare inside ourselves. We should be confidence in ourselves that we are capable. We won't ever know our ability unless we try it right?!?
#4 We have to be conscious that we won't be able to please every people in our life. Please another person doesn't always scarify our own joy. There's always be win-win solution, right?!?
SO....
Live just once.
VIVA LA VIDA!!!
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