Husband Clothes

Wow! Has it really been over a month since I wrote on this blog?? Where does the time go? Well, I guess I’ve spent my time mainly 1) fantasizing about new ventures 2) getting very annoyed about certain aspects of my job–not Hot Boss, though 3) enjoying the success of some ventures I started last year. So, while the first two activities are somewhat sketchy and a little pathetic, the third one validates my dreaming and scheming. At least to the point that the friends and family who are forced to endure listening to all my dreams and schemes no longer look terrified when I start talking about my next big thing. (Unrelated comment: for some reason, when I write fragments and treat them like sentences, it makes me feel sort of cool and rebellious. I hope that doesn’t annoy anyone.)

Anyway, sort of in line with the theme of dreams and schemes, I know of a person who I want to share a little bit about. This person is neat, but somewhat…the type one could worry about due to his lack of diligence and what seems like…well, odd goals and poor decisions in some ways. I kind of want to see what you think:

I can’t tell you his name, but he was born in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada. His mom was an artist and nurse, and his father was an electrical engineer. The family moved to California, so this guy ended up going to Fullerton College. He studied physics and English at first, but majored in philosophy. He ended up dropping out of college and worked several jobs. He found a truck driving job and stayed with that one for quite a while…Then he watched one of the Star Wars movies and felt really inspired about movie making. So, he decided to quit his truck driving job to enter film school.

Do you think that this will go okay for him? The scenario looks bleak, but I hear the story and want to have hope…

Well, fast forward. That story actually happened many years ago. Now, things are going pretty well for that individual. He graduated film school and did a bunch of other stuff. Currently, his movie Avatar is the 2nd highest grossing film ever (at a total of $1.14 billion worldwide). Avatar is second only to Titanic, the highest grossing movie of all time. Funny thing–this guy also wrote and directed Titanic. So this former truck driving college drop out now holds the top 2 spots of highest grossing films ever! (The Star Wars movie that inspired him to go to film school was the original movie that was released in 1977.)

One more note: Both Titanic and Avatar were very, very, extremely widely ridiculed for taking so long to make and costing sooooo much money. It was just assumed that Titanic didn’t stand a chance at earning back its cost, especially considering that the two starring actors were complete Hollywood nobodies…Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet.

His name, his name, yes, of course the cat’s now out of the bag. The philosophy major, truck driving, college drop out who went to film school because he liked Star Wars is James Cameron. I never knew anything about him until I read this article and this biography about him just now…

Pretty neat. These articles made me think of a book that was popular several years ago. Remember that book Life’s Little Instruction Book? James Cameron sort of embodies my very two favorite quotes from that book:

1) Don’t ever deprive a person of hope. It may be all he has.

2) Don’t give up on anyone. Miracles happen every day.

Darn it. It is 11:20pm now. I am going to try to force myself to go to sleep rather than spend all night researching the internet on other people who inspire me like Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Suess, and John Forbes Nash, Jr. (the guy who inspired the movie A Beautiful Mind). Thank you for stopping by.

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