I was at the Google campus the other day, and met a manager from a famous architectural firm. We connected very well and spoke with each other for over two hours. I had to ask him, how long has he been in his job. He said eight years. I asked him if he found his job repetitive, and he said lots of times. I followed up with asking why stay in a job for so long if it gets repetitive?

I know this is a very obvious answer, but it wasn’t to me. When I get bored of a job, I tend to leave it for a better one, meaning that I never stay for more than a year or two unless the job is really engaging.

I loved his response: when you have a family, the concern is no longer yourself; you can’t care about how shitty your job may be when you have mouths to feed, or bodies to put through schooling. Whatever you once prioritized for yourself, can no longer happen, because it’s the ones that you love that comes ahead.

So, in order to support his loved ones, he has to remain in his job, which is stable, secure, and pays well. However, if he didn’t have a family, he would have moved to another job long ago.

Ghosts. Witches. Unicorns. Pirates. Airships. Princes and Princesses. Love.
You’d think that these themes represent a movie for kids, but I will tell you that the Stardust movie is for ALL AUDIENCES. The humor, the story, the imagination, was just grand. I was literally on the edge of my seat many times, getting psyched along the way many times. When you think one thing would happen, it totally takes a fun-filled twist.

It’s one of the few rare movies that evokes nostalgia of my childhood when I saw imaginative films like The Goonies, The Neverending Story, The Land Before Time, The Black Cauldron, Krull… etc etc.

In the lab I work at, one of our studies involved research on the concept of flow. Flow is basically feeling in the zone, where a task is neither boring or too difficult; it’s also when you do not notice time passing and in the end you feel a rush of accomplishment or well-being. This movie certainly evoked such feelings.

It was over as soon as it started, but it was everything I wished for in a fantasy movie. For the adults, there’s AWESOME laughs, and for the kids, the wizardry of the witches and the image of the fantasy world and vast lands will satisfy.

I just can’t stress enough – watch the movie. I do not own any DVDs, but I can definitely say that Stardust will be my first one.

It evoked imagination, creativity, and brought out my inner child.