Friday January 11, 2008 at 12:25
“When a man marries his mistress, he immediately creates a vacancy.”
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gapingvoid: beware of turning hobbies into jobs
i have been here, turning my hobby into a profession. it was right after i graduated college where i had four distinct “roles” or spheres of life. work, play, friends & mentoring. after four years (eight, counting high school) of developing an ability to balance life between those four pillars, they were all suddenly condensed into one. a job. i absolutely enjoyed this job. there are often times when i long to return to it. only when i was on my way out of this career path, did i realize that the relationships, and the proportion of me spread between those spheres of life is what ultimately gave them their meaning. and when i combined them all, those relationships collapsed, and i had no idea what to do with myself.
it’s like almost every movie trilogy:
the original is great an everyone loves it. the humor (or drama or action or whatever), plot, & character development interact flawlessly;
the sequel sucks because the element which made the first one so enjoyable (usually humor) is WAY overdone, thus causing every other dimension of the film to fail;
third-installations generally learn from the sequel so much that they rise above the quality of the original. they taper whatever went overboard, allowing the other parts of the film to shine and giving meaning to the film, its characters and the story.
please leave trilogy agreements and disagreements in the comments or reblog.
agree: spiderman, bourne
disagree: austin powers (#3 sucked)
