3 Things i realised after watching "The Intern"

Have you ever felt something within you while watching a movie? well for me, i always do.
So just 5 minutes ago, i just finished watching Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro in their 2015 movie "The Intern", and it turns out that it is a flick full of inspiration stuck within its plot.  So Here are the 3 Things i realised after watching "The Intern"

1. Remember to Breathe and never forget to take it all in one step at a time.

As a newbie in my field, i have always been told that working in that agency is never a "walk in the park", and since i was definitely being told to act as a pro-bee and take what our boss gives, i always assumed that the more work i get or the more projects assigned to me - the better. But what i truly realised is that taking on a lot of things on my plate without even asking myself if i can handle it alone is truly bad. There are probably lots of times, in which i ask myself 2 same exact question every time i am exhausted: 1. Do i still belong here? and 2. A year from now, will this all be beneficial to me or another person's life?...and without any hesitation, i always get stuck with the moment that i will never ever answer it not until i get to have the courage to come and seek for another challenge in my life. In the movie, i felt a deep connection with the main protagonist: jules- a young hard working woman who takes everything in her plate without asking if she can handle it, but the thing with all the jules in the world is, we can never learn to say no, we all have that characteristics of being jules; of being territorial in terms of our craft, of taking everything in, just because we say we can. So to all the jules in the world - take a breather, and assess yourself one chocolate bar at a time.

2. You're never wrong to do the right thing - Mark Twain

In the movie, the other protagonist (Robert De Niro) quoted Mark Twain by saying "You're never wrong to do the right thing." and this made me realised that believing in the things we do that we think are right is never wrong, it is who we are, we are bound to commit mistakes, we are bound to make decisions ; some decisions may be for our sake but bad for others - but as long as we believe that we do everything right without having to put somebody down or without crashing somebody's soul, then we definitely should out our laser focus selves to hunt down what we want to do to reach our goal. I know that sometimes, we feel tempted to take the short cut, the path that has the least resistance, but know this, the right path may be long, it may take months or even years, but taking the hard road is never the wrong path to take. 

3. We thing we're less screwed that we really are.

Jules in the movie, was definitely one successful lady we all want to be, but with everything else on her plate; the pressure, the responsibility and the fear of failing, she forgot the simplest important thing in her life; her family. She kept on complaining about her mom, she seldom see her daughter and never had time for her husband and she rarely SLEEPS and almost never gets out of the office. Well- we've all been there right? a part of us young starters in the real world are somewhat JULES in our little ways. I have been known in the office, as the person who rarely go home in our house to see my family, the person-so dedicated she never cares if she has to sacrifice her time and the person you can count on to attend a meeting or take on the responsibility if you're so exhausted. Yup, i am that person. I thought that with me getting all caught up in the momentum of being busy make everything less screwed, I’ve thought things were better than they really were. I didn’t think anything was wrong. But they were. And so i was. I learned that unscrewing the screwed things will never work, we still have to try, to take the best shot we've always had in us, but know that from time to time, we have to remind ourselves that we are humans, we have needs and we must always take upon us to accept that we will never get perfection in life. Just lots of mistakes, a few bumps in the road and infinite lessons to learn.

xoxo

Banana