The Happy Film Page #8

it happens three times,

Stefan, this should

be a movie about

You and your weaknesses,

And your attempts to fix them.

- oh f***, this is

gonna be such a nightmare

To figure this movie out.

I started out to get some

really clear answers.

And what I got back

Is a bunch of mush.

- {jonathan]

what have you learned

About the causes of happiness?

Do you have

a better understanding

Of what makes you happy?

- I didn't wanna make a film

About questions.

And I hate all this stuff.

Oh, it's not about the answers.

It's about the right questions.

Blah, blah, blah.

F***.

This is a total disaster.

everything ain't going

the way I planned

everything ain't going

the way I planned

everything ain't going

the way I planned

so I'm gonna sit

myself down right here

and see--

- Trying to look good

Limits my life.

I know, but I'm getting

getting very concerned

About how I look in this film.

I'm a 50 year old guy who dates

Women 20 years younger.

And calls them girls.

I just spent the past

six years of my life

Working on this thing

That says I'm an a**hole.

What a great use of my time.

I should have stuck to

chairs made out of letters.

- so, you

chose the three techniques

That I describe in chapter two

of the book

For changing the elephant.

But your problem

wasn't the elephant.

You could just as well

have chosen

The three aspects of between.

So, what if you had worked

on your relationships?

And worked on the satisfaction

You get from work?

And tried to get involved

With some sort of larger project

In the company of people that

you really like and respect?

That would be changing the

conditions of your life

In ways that, I would predict,

Happiness would then follow

As you got a better between.

- well, in a way,

That has been

what I've been doing.

I mean, I definitely

Worked on my relationships.

Not all that successfully,

but I did.

And I have been more

satisfied with my work.

The happy show

was a big success.

I mean, almost a 1/4 of

a million came to see it.

And this whole film project

Surely feels larger than me.

Basically outside of my control.

Like I'm the rider

and it's the elephant.

This film started as a graphic

design project six years ago.

And somehow

it all became about me.

I guess I could have

continued designing stuff

That I know how to do.

It would have been

So much easier.

Trying to chase after

something more meaningful

Turned out to be

a big pain in the ass.

But it also did

Make my life fuller.

everything ain't going

the way I planned

everything ain't going

the way I planned

everything ain't going

the way I planned

- So what's the purpose,

Why am I actually here?

I guess it would be

to do something

That either delights

Or helps other people.

Or simply finding something

That's bigger than myself,

And dedicate myself to it.

I'm still blowing air

into balloons.

Trusting, somehow, into

The lightness of things.

Believing it will work.

There's a shitload

Of possibilities.

One day it will be me up there.

I will fly.

Let's go.

everything ain't going

the way I had planned

everything ain't going

the way I had planned

just gonna sit there

sit down and write it

see what happens

to me

if I don't do

a god damn thing at all

everything ain't going

the way I planned

everything ain't going

the way I planned

so I'm gonna sit down

sit down right here

and see what happens

to me if I don't do

a god damned thing at all

everything ain't going

the way I planned

everything ain't going

the way I planned

so I'm going to sit my

self down right here

and see what happens

to me if I don't do

a god damn thing at all

everything ain't going

the way I planned

everything ain't going

the way I had planned

everything ain't going

the way I had planned

everything ain't going

the way I had planned

so I'm going to sit my

self down right here

and see what happens to me

if I don't do a

god damn thing at all

everything ain't going

the way I had planned

everything ain't going

the way I had planned

so I'm gonna sit

myself down right here

and see what happens

to me if I don't do

a god damn thing at all

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