What I’m Watching

Continuing my trend from last summer of watching movies starring Kristen Bell, I watched a 2010 movie titled You Again.

Kristen Bell plays the role of Marni, a young woman who is successful now but had a terrorizing high school career. She was the acne-faced girl with braces who everyone liked to make fun of. Years after leaving high school, she finds out that her older brother is planning on marrying the girl who bullied her the most during high school, and retaliates to help her brother find out what kind of person his future wife really is.

Although this movie wasn’t as attention-holding or thought-provoking as other movies I’ve watched, it was still a good laid-back comedy. It reminded me of the antics of high school and gave a humorous representation of both the bully and the victim’s side of the conflict. As the movie progresses, we find out that Marni isn’t the only woman who has had problems with the family of her older brother’s fiancée, which is where the title You Again comes from.

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Topic #155: If you knew you were going to die in 20 days, what would change?

Quite obviously, if I knew I was going to die in a specific short period of time, I would no longer live to prepare for the future and instead start living to prepare for my death. I would make sure that everything under my responsibility would end up having a smooth transition to someone else after my departure.

On a slightly related note, I actually don’t really like being asked what I would do if I was going to die in a specific amount of time. I’ve been asked this question so much that I already know exactly what I would do if something like this were ever to happen. In addition, thinking about this is quite an unoptimistic way to live – and that’s coming from someone who takes a relatively pessimistic approach to everything in general. I think that thinking excessively about your own death or demise will distract and impair you from achieving what you could or what you want to do.