Andy John Bradfords Blog Spot
I was inspired to write a blog by a dear friend of mine in Belfast. "Sorry Mamakaz" but it was such a good idea and I love your monthy ramblings. I know the idea of a blog isn't a first, there are millions out there but I never kept a diary in my life and so much has happened, I was wondering how much time I have forgotten about and waisted because a diary wasn't kept? So what do I write in my blog? Well I'm a mucsician so music will have a big roll. However it will also be about my life and the things that surround my life. Family, friends, loves and hates. But as music surrounds my life music will have to be in this. Some of you will be wondering why. The thing is I don't want to let life go by and not keep a document of what I've done. So here goes.
Month 1. I've always been an avid lover of movies. I remember being a child and the excitement of the cinema was magic. I loved the lights going down, the flicker of the projector and the curtains rushing back. for 2 hours I was transported into a world that was different to my own. You could have yelled in my ear and it wouldn't matter. I was lost in the movie. Nowadays I can't sit in a cinema comfortably enough but that doesn't meen I can't enjoy the movies. I have a large collection of DVDs now and the magic is still there. For 2 hours or less or more, I am transported into the world of someones imagination. My world outside is forgotten about, the bills, the medication, problems that are out of control, sudenly are held in suspension for the leangh of the movie.
I was watching a movie today called In Time. It's a clever film that deals in time as currency, It asked the question, what if we were governed by the time we had left? how what we bought to survive daily was paid for with time? Money was no more, only time, time was all we had left. The rich were Imortal, and the poor were almost out of time and had to fight to find more time. It told us many things through the film, but what it told me was that. No matter how much time we have left, we should never waist it. You could be the richest man on the planet with a millenium of time on the clock, but if you waisted all that time you had left, what was it all worth? You could be a man and have no time left on the clock and yet be the richest man in the world because you were really living. It said don't waste time sitting around. I wondered what have I done? I've waisted so much time in my life and as time ebs away, what will I do to make it all count?
I tell you what I'm going to do. I'm not going to waste a moment, I'm going to LIVE. Are you?
