Hardwired- Food For Thought

I just watched this movie called Mr.Nobody. The movie is a very, and when I say very, I mean a very good movie. Although you do have to be one of those people that likes movies that make you think. Not just about the world but also that make you look into yourself and analyze your whole existence.

I don’t want to go into very much detail about what the movie is about and give to much information about what happens away as I really think it is one of those movies everyone should watch. I will however give you the description that is on the back of the box. It says “ A young boy stands on a station platform. The train is about to leave. Should he go with his mother or stay with his father? An infinity of possibilities arise from this decision. As long as he doesn’t choose. Anything is possible. Every life deserves to be lived.” 

Now when I got this movie I was like wow this sounds so interesting and the other reason why I got it was because Jared Leto is in it, and well come on now he is one good looking dude to stare at for a few hours. When I put the movie in I was thinking hmm okay this is not turning out to be what I thought it should be, but I decided to try and give it a chance. These are my thoughts on it.

In life you are put in situations that are not particularly pleasant where choices have to be made that seem impossible and make you think about how many directions your life could go. Where life could take you, and what could happen. These choices at the time seem to be very important and critical to your existence the answer may not always be the right one; but what if there was never any wrong answer? What if no matter what choice you made the outcome of your life was always meant to be the same? Maybe every path every life that we could possibly live is the right one, no choice we make is wrong. If everything could have been anything else and it would have just as much meaning.

Now what do I mean by this you might ask? Well I guess what I am getting at here is that maybe right from birth we are “hardwired” in a way that we already have our life path planned out for us. That maybe our choices that we make are made because we were always supposed to make them. And the little windy off trails that we make from our one main path were never supposed to happen because we are and always were meant to be on one pre determined, one pre destined route. So I have this huge theory that just came up in my head from this movie. I am not sure if this is actually what the movie was trying to express or not but it is a thought that I wanted to entertain. Let me explain.

We all have choices that we need to make. I have already gone over this. So I will use an example to try and explain now to whoever is reading this what I mean by what I am saying to you. Okay so for me in my life just for an example. I have wanted to move to Vancouver for a very long time now. I have written down a list of goals and things that I need to do to accomplish this. Now every time that I do this, get myself in line and actually start to look like I am going somewhere with it, to get what I truly want and what I desire, something always happens to throw me back ten steps. Whether it is a car accident that put me in debt and then I had to spend a year saving up to pay that off instead of moving. Or getting laid-off from my job that set me back even more. My point to this is, and I really hope it’s not true for me is that what if I was never meant to move to Vancouver?  Maybe it is not in my cards, maybe that is not my life outcome.

So coming back to my statement. Maybe we never actually have a choice as to where our life is supposed to go. That the decisions we are presented with everyday are merely just ways to entertain us and make our human brain feel like we have reason. To make us feel like we truly exist in a world that is already pre thought for us and pre destined for us to become what we were supposed to be with out our thought and opinion. So would it really matter about the choices we make if we are always going to end up in the same place?

Does this mean that I am going to give up on my goals because of one little theory I just came up with, Absolutely not but if our fate is already pre determined, and we are already pre destined to be something, then isn’t it quite possible that my goals will change? If everything happens for a reason and these little paths I am supposed to live even though I will always end up where I am supposed to go then it just makes life’s ride that more exciting and more entertaining, does it not?


**** UPDATE*** I HAVE MOVED TO VANCOUVER!!!
so maybe I was always supposed to be here. Ha ha ha  ;)