SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT TODAY.
SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT TODAY.
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Firstly, I would like to apologize for not posting the Monday article as promised, I was not feeling well (severe headache caused by a wave of flue in my local area). Just got back on my feet today so decided to write to fulfil my promise. So shall we jump into this week′s topic, one I believe has changed my view on the importance of film messages over the last decade.
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I have seen so many movies in my 32 years of living and many American drama movies, but as promised, I will talk in much more detail about this very educative film I watched last week, #ALLTOGETHERNOW. there are 3 important real-life lessons that I want to address today and hopefully, they will add value to your life after reading this newsletter. If you have not yet watched the movie I will put the link to the trailer right at the end of this article, to entice you with what′s inside the story.
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I came up with so many lessons after watching the entire movie on Friday last week after 4 and a half months of procrastinating to watch it. Though the movie was produced in the year 2020, 3 years and 4 months ago, the relevance of the story to all of us seems like yesterday to me at least, lol. The leading role played by Auli?i Cravalho?as Amber Appleton finds herself in more hard situations with 3 things going against her from start to almost the end of the movie: 1. Sleeping in a school bus with her mother, 2. The death of her mother and 3. Missing her flight to an audition because her dog was sick. Too much for a teenager who is about to realize her dream in music.
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Here are the 5 lessons that changed the way I see life:
1.????? UNITY IS VITAL
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To be alone you can get things done but if you are a team that is united you can achieve almost anything in the world. The case of Appleton in the movie opens up with her and her mother living in a school bus without a good shelter. The support Appleton got from her mother was just limited because they could not get a safe and comfortable home to stay in as mother and daughter. Things got worse when the school authorities found out and Appleton′s mother was fired from work forcing her to go back to Oliver, her ex-boyfriend who was into drugs.
As long as we are united as a people nothing is impossible. The more we stand with one mind and one voice the more we can defeat anything that tries to separate us from understanding the power of humanity. As you start your day today, have this in mind, we are all humans and we deserve each other's respect, love, and protection regardless of religion, race, or anything that we can define as a possible threat to us across the globe.
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2.????? PURPOSE HAS NO BOUNDARY
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I love defining purpose as the reason for your existence. In the bible, if you read Jeremiah chapter 1 and God is calling Jeremiah into ministry, he starts by saying, “Before you were formed in your mother′s womb I knew thee….” Jeremiah 1vs5. The most important thing in life is to know why you exist. What is the reason for you to continue occupying space under the sun? you have a very important assignment to execute for the goodness of this world.
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Whatever you might be good at, it is not by accident that you are still alive and kicking every day. Maybe you are good at giving and taking care of other people′s needs just like Appleton in the mother. It is God who gives people gifts without measure and still, it is Him who helps you understand the meaning of your life day in day out. You are not here by mistake as I always motivate people and the movie here clearly highlights that in a broader sense.
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3.????? HARD WORK PAYS.
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Amber Appleton is a very hard worker, from taking care of the elderly at an elderly home in her community every weekend to raising money to find good accommodation for her and her mother. As if that is not enough, she is the frontrunner of a school fundraising project she and her friends had been organizing for a very long time. Adding to that Amber is also more concerned about the well-being of her dog which needed an urgent operation that forced her to miss flight to her audition for the drama program at?Carnegie Mellon University, and remember one more important thing here, she is just a teenager.
How cool is that? It is important to know that eventually when you put in the hard work needed to make things work, nature has a way of responding with the good to you. ?You get the reward you deserve in life based on the purpose you serve, the persistence you put in and the hard work not to put a gap in your daily schedule remember I am not saying do not find rest for your body.? My point is your mind must be programmed to push your good works till they pay off.
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This is what I wanted to share with you today and I hope that I have made some sense in this article because it was all about motivating you to see films to learn something at the end. Like I said in the beginning, this movie has changed the way I see life all importantly. Because motion pictures are used to send a message, different stories (genres) all the time and it is up to you to like the one you love the most.
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Drama stories tend to send messages that help us in any way we look for. Make sure to catch my next newsletter next week Monday and let us continue in the spirit of watching movies. If this newsletter has been so helpful to you, please leave a comment or suggestion in the comment section, and do not forget to let me know which movie you want me to talk about in detail soon.
here is the link to the trailer of #ALLTOGETHERNOW
#alltogethernow #filmswithcliff #purpose #drama #hardwork #unity