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【1】How much does your life weigh?Imaging for a second that youre carring a backpack. I want u to feel that the straps on your shoulders.Feelem? Now I want you to pack it with all the stuff that u have in your life.Start with the little things, the things on shelves and in drawers,the knick-knacks,the collectibles.Feel the weights as that adds up. Then u start adding larger stuff, cloths, table-top appliances, lamps, linens, your TV. The backpack should be getting pretty heavy now. And u go bigger. Your couch, your bed, your kitchen table. Stuff it all in there. Your car, get it in there. Your home ,whether it is a studio apartment, or a two-bedroom house, I want u to staff it all into that backpack. Now try to walk. Its kind of hard, isnt it? This is what we do to ourselves on a daily basis. We weigh ourselves down until we cant even move. And make no mistake, moving is living. Now Im gonna set that backpack on fire, what do u want to take out of it? photos? Photos are for people who cant remember. Drink some ginkgo and let the photos burn. In fact, let everything burn and imagine waking up tomorrow with nothing, its kind of exhilarating, isnt it? 【2】-Natalie, what is it u think we do here?-We prepare the newly-unemployed for the emotional and physical hurdles of job hunting, while minimising legal bloeback. -Thats what were selling. Its not what were doing. -OK. What we r doing?-We r here to make limbo tolerable, to ferry wounded souls across the river of dread until the point where hope is dimly visible. And then stop the boat, shoveem in the water and makeem swim.【3】-How much did they first pay u to give up on your dreams?-27 grand a year.-And when were u going to stop and come back and do what makes u happy?-Good question.-I see guys who work at the same company for their entire lives, guys exactly like you. They clock in, they clock out, and they never have a moment of happiness. U have an opportunity here, Bob. This is a rebirth. If not for u, do it for your children.【4】-Its not like that. The miles are the goal.-Thats it? U r saving just to save?-Just say I have a number in mind and I havent hit it yet.-Thats a little abstract. Whats the target?-Its 10 million miles. .-And they put your name on a side of plane.-Man get such hard-ons from putting their name on stuff. You guys dont grow up. Its like you need to pee on everything. -Oh, now who is stereotyping?-Fear of mortality. Its like, yeah, youre gonna die one day.【5】This is how I start everyday of my life. Now, this is gonna be a little difficult, so stay with me. You have a new backpack. Only this time, I want u to fill it with people. Start with casual acquaintances, friends of friends, folks around the office. And then u move into the people u trust with your most intimate secrets-Your cousins, your aunts, your uncles, yout brothers, your sisters, your parents, and finally your husband, your wife, your boyfriend or your girlfriend. You get them into that backpack. Dont worry. Im not gonna ask you to light it on fire. Feel the weight of that bag. Make no mistake, your relationship are the heaviest components in your life. Do u feel the straps cutting into your shoulders? All these negotiations and arguments, and secrets and compromises. You dont need to carry all that weight. Why dont u set that bag down? Some animals were meant to carry each other to live symbiotically for a lifetime.Star-crossed lovers, monogamous swans. We are not those animals. The slower we move, the faster we die. We are not swans, were sharks.【6】-Never?-No.-Ever?-No.-You never want to get married?-Nope.-Never want kids?-Not a chance.-Ever?-Never. Is that so bizarre?-Yes.Yes,it is.-I just dont see the value in it. Right,sell it to me.-What?-Sell me marriage.-OK. How about love? Stability,just somebody you can count on.-OK, how many stable marriage do u know?-Somebody to talk to, someone to spend your life with.-Im surrounded by people to talk to. I doubt thats gonna change.-How about just not dying alone?-Starting when I was 12, we moved each of my grandparents into a nursing facility. My parents went the same way. Make no mistake, we all die alone. Now, those cult members in San Diego, with the kool-aid and the sneakers.they didnt die alone. Im just saying there are options.【7】-Is the bag empty because u hate people or because u hate the baggage they come along with?-I dont hate people. Im not exactly a hermit. -U just dont want to be tied down with the whole responsibility thing.-I dont know what originally sparked the backpack. Probably needed to be alone. Recently, Ive been thinking that I needed to be empty the backpack before I know what to put back in it.【8】-How can u not think about that? How does it not even cross ur mind that you might want a future with someone?-Its simple. U know that moment when u look into somebodys eyes and u can feel them staring into your soul and the whole world goes quiet just for a second?-Yes.-Right. Well, I dont.-Dont u think its worth giving her a chance? -A chance for what?-A chance at something real.-Natalie, your definition of real will evolve as u get older.-Can u stop condescending for one second or is it a principle of your bullshit philosophy? The isolation, the travelling, is that supposed to be charming?-No, its simply a life choice.-Its a cocoon of self-banishment.-Wow,big words.-You have set up a way of life that basically makes it impossible for you to have any kind of human connection. And now, this woman comes along and somehow runs the gauntlet of your ridiculous life choice, and comes out on the other end smiling just u can call her casual? I need to grow up? U are a 12-year-old.【9】-Well, last night I was just kinda laying in bed, and I couldnt get to sleep. so I started thinking bout the wedding and the ceremony, and about our buying a house, and moving in together, and having a kid, and having another kid and then Christmas and Thanksgiving and Springbreak. Going to football games, and then all of a sudden, theyre graduating.Theyre getting jobs, and getting married. and u know,Im a grandparent, and then I am retired, Im loosing my hair, getting fat, and then the next thing, you know, Im dead. Im just, like.I cant stop from thinkingwhats the point? I mean, What is the point?-The point?-Yeah, what am I starting here?-Jim, its.marriage, its one of the most beautiful things on earth, its what er.what people aspire to. U never got married.-Thats true.-I mean, You never even tried. Thats hard to defying try.-I dont know. Its justyou seem happier than all my married friends.-Well, Jim, Im not going to lie to u. Marriage can be a pain in the ass. And youre kind of right, this all is just stuff that leads to your eventual demise.-Yes.-And were all running clocks, and they cant be slowed down or paused, and we all end up in the same place. Theres no point.- There Is no point. Thats what Im saying.-You know, Im not normally the guy u would talk to about stuff like this. If you think about it, your favourite memories, the most important moments in your life, were you alone?-No, I guess not.-Think a bit of it, last night, the night before your wedding when all the shit was swirling around in your head, werent you guys sleeping in seperate bedrooms?-Yeah, Julie went back to the apartment, and I was just by myself in the honeymoon suite.-Kinda lonely, huh?-Yes, pretty lonely.-Life is better with company.-Yeah-Everybody needs a co-pilot.-That was a nice touch.-Thanks.【10】-I thought I was a part of your real life.-I thought we signed up for the same thing.-Try and help me understand exactly what it is that u signed up for.-I thought our relationship was perfectly clear. I mean u are an escape, you are a break from our normal lives, youre a parenthesis.-I am a parenthesis?-I mean.what do u want? Tell me what u want. U dont even know what u want. Ryan, Im a grown-up, ok? So if u would like to see me again, then.then give me a call. OK?【11】-So where are u from?-I
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