Is this real life?

The other day I went to go watch a movie and I was really inspired to express my view of what I thought of the movie. The movie was well written, the filming was good, the actors were even better and everything about the movie was well done, it was the total package... at least that's what I thought.

Most of us are looking for the silver lining in life, we always look for the positive in the negative, and a few days ago I realised I was probably one of the few people in the world who always looked for the positive in the negative.

Upon watching this AMAZING movie I slowly but surely started to realise that seeing the positive in the negative is very much overrated. The world is supposed to have negatives; the shoe is always going to drop when you have a good thing going. It’s like complimenting someone on their beauty and then when they open their mouth you are met with this overwhelming whiff of decayed fish from the fish market. Yes the shoe has to drop, this is life and life does not always have happy endings. I guess what i'm saying is that the ending of the movie SUCKED because it was a happy ending.

But lets look at things differently, let me ask you this question; what if your life did not have a happy beginning and you had a rough start to life, does this mean that you are almost going to have a happy ending? When you were born in poverty will you die rich? And if you answered yes how long will you enjoy your riches? I ask this question because the character had a rough start but ended up having a happy ending. 

I know for a lot of Africans this is not always the case, if you are born in poverty the chances of getting out are very slim, but look on the bright side there is a chance non-the less… right? 

But let’s not dwell on the negative, let’s focus on the positive for a little bit. We all have a shot at true love, we all can overcome the challenges we are faced with when we are backed up against the ropes, we all have the will and the drive to live and survive, all of us were born with the ability to be übermensch… but how do we release this potential?

But back to the movie, the ending of the movie was horrible and unrealistic; this is what I call 'romantic farce'. Its annoying because the movie touched on real issues and it delivered everything as if it was real, for the duration of the movie I was lost in this ever changing world of intrigue, I even thought this was how normal people lived their lives in other countries. But the ending reminded me that this is a movie.

This piece I’m writing is supposed to be short and concise, I don’t want to bore you, and waste your Precious time, but I do want to ask you this:  Does every cloud have a silver lining?