A Philosophy of Life from "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel"

[trof]

"Everything will be alright in the end. If it's not alright yet, it's not the end."
That's my new outlook on life.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Mine is: "I'm gay. Well, these days, more in theory than in practice."

LOVE LOVE LOVE that movie!

[trof]

4. That was good too.

[In_The_Wind]

2. I love your new outlook on life!

I concur.

[mwdem]

3. I'm totally adapting that as mine!

[OneGrassRoot]

5. I love that movie!!! I try to remember that message myself...

and use it as a mantra of sorts.

Just love it.

[elleng]

6. Great movie!!!

[Duer 157099]

7. Oh good, I've got that on my DVR but haven't watched it yet

Now I have something good to look forward to

[talkingmime]

8. Oh fuck that. Nothing's alright now and nothing will be alright in the end.

Life's a bitch and then you die. What more do you need to know?

[trof]

9. What more do I need to know?

I need to know that just maybe I helped someone deal with the bitch in some small way that I might not even realize.
One does what what one can to relieve suffering and then hope for a good outcome.
I do my best.

"Life's a bitch and then you die" is a 'cute' phrase, but I really hope there's a bit more to my time here than that.

I'm an atheist, so the promise of paradise in the hereafter is of no comfort to me.
In my 70+ years of life here I've been helped by others.
I try to pay it forward.

Sounds like you're going through some tough times.
Hope you can work your way through it.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

12. trof -

I aspire to be like you. that was one of the gentlest, kindest, classiest replies I have ever read on DU ... thank you for being you.

[trof]

13. Thank you.

Folks like you are one of the reasons I'm still here.

[talkingmime]

15. What goes around comes around. I do believe in karma. Help someone and you'll be helped.

I ran out of gas in 1983 or so. My car weighed two tons and I couldn't move it. Several cars came by, including an open-top jeep with four able bodied men in it. Two elderly women stopped (probably about 70) and they helped me push the car into the shoulder.

A few years before that, a friend and I stopped to find out what was wrong with a woman in a car on the side of Rt. 29 near Laurel, MD. She was initially afraid (we both looked like weirdo hippie freaks). She was out of gas.

I got on the CB and called a base station. The woman who responded found a gas station that was open. We went out and he offered the tank off of his motorcycle. Not wanting to take the responsibility for that, I went with an empty antifreeze jug (on the condition that I didn't tell). I made a funnel out of poster board (why it was in the car I don't recall) and got her enough gas to get going.

What goes around comes around. And as for being an athiest, I'll run with Sartre's take on it - "Hell is other people". I'm still an athiest.

[nolabear]

26. .

[datasuspect]

17. life's a bitch, the IRS fists you with razor gloves, the feds start sniffing around

someone comes up with the idea: "Hey, let's cook some meth."

yeah, shit sucks, you die, no one fucking cares anyway unless you got money. if you're broke, you ain't shit, won't be shit, and hopefully someone will take pity enough on you to throw you a beer and a frog leg here and there.

[talkingmime]

19. Yeah, that's basically it.

[datasuspect]

21. 10-4

[graywarrior]

10. Just watched that movie

It was great!

[trof]

11. I'd go there.

[graywarrior]

14. Me, too!

I liked the old dude looking for a girlfriend. He was hilarious.

[Myrina]

16. I adore that movie.

If the overcrowding in India didn't make me so claustrophobic, I would love to pull an Evelyn (Judi Dench's character) & just move there, find a job and start over.

I like to remind myself of that quote, although more often than not, my life feels more like this quote from Sonny (on the park bench with Evelyn): " ... although of course here we have a problem beacuse I have never had a triumph so of course I do not know how to treat one. All I've had is a constant series of disasters interpersed with occassional catastrophes and an unending stream of total failure ... "

[datasuspect]

18. there's a reason why it's a movie

the actual india poses security risks and can be very violent in places.

it's an enormous place with tons of people who live in abject poverty.

[Myrina]

20. Yeah, thanks for that little ray of sunshine ...

Nice to be kicked in the head when I'm already having the week from hell & choose to entertain a momentary flight of fancy to lift my spirits. I appreciate it, thanks.

[datasuspect]

22. any time

go on youtube and search for tea workers riots india or suchlike to see how spontaneous violence sprouts up in that region.

spontaneous gang rape occurs a lot over there too.

[pinboy3niner]

23. re: overcrowding

I fought in Vietnam, and later made three month-long trips there in the '90s.

So for me it was the double whammy of being surrounded by hordes of people, plus the knowledge that some of them may have been my former enemies. It took a while to get used to it.

In the markets, a westerner is besieged by beggars, but the Vietnamese friends I was with quickly squelched that.

Claustrophobia is something you can deal with, and get past, if you really want to. Despite all of my issues, after a week in VN I was...home.

[trof]

24. I've heard similar stories.

Yeah, I bet it took a while to get used to that.

It's impossible for me to relate because I'm one of those "Viet Nam ERA" vets.
BTW, I hate that term. To me, you either had skin in the game or you didn't.
Maybe it's just used to identify your general age group and the fact that you served.
I know, EVERYONE in the military didn't serve in 'Nam during all those years.
I was safely ensconced in the air national guard where I learned a trade/skill (flying) which led to a fairly decent career.

On a distantly related subject...I've read of German POWs who were interned in U.S. camps returning years later for a reunion with former camp guards.
Never heard of U.S. POWs returning to Germany for the same.
Guess we treated them better than they treated us.

[DearHeart]

25. I love that! Decided that was my new philosophy when I watched it last week!