Nov 19, 2013

Talking about The Second Chance


Last week, i met up again with Richard Curtis through his new comedy-romance About Time. It has been so long since the last time i enjoyed all traditional Curtis items which thick with natural and unpredictable romance like how Love Actually got my heart and so does Notting Hill.

It was nice watching this kinda movie --a time-traveler-things, and as the person who always curious about time, i really floated off in every scene. I've talked so much about my thoughts about time itself before in my daily-babble or previous post, but now here i'm gonna bold the part of second chance.

"What if every moment in life came with a second chance ?"

Each person has their own perception about what they means about second chance. so i'll translate this stuff more obvious so all of you can explicitly understand what second chance i'm gonna talk about, for me the second chance can be classified in accordance with major people have defined it like :
  •  First (1), like what Curtis describe in About Time, The second-chance is the chance you literally can meet and experience it again with 100% same condition like the first time it happened.
  • (2) Else is, The second-chance which means a chance you can again experience but in different ways. for example, at the first you failed to put the ball on the basket with your foot then the second chance come up to you and make you succesfully put the ball on the basket with your hand.
  • (3) the last kind is, The second-chance that indirectly happen to you because of the approval of someone else or people around. for example, the forgiveness.

Three kind of definition seems like really obvious, but i never more understand about the second chance if i don't define it into these three kinds. Noteworthy to understand first, that every second-chance happen for fix the things that happen in the first chance. So i definitely can proclaim the (1) second-chance will never happen in this real life (if you still sane enough to not believe about time-traveler). the (1) thought only happen on your imagination, those kind of imagination freely walk in your only mind like this, when you failed the work interview because you feel you don't have enough answer to impress the interviewer, the other next days you just cannot move on and always think about the right answer and "what if". So, the worst thing about the (1) second chance is when you always think about "what if", not stop imagining to fix the first thing in your minds, you will be the one who always regret.

The (2) thought is the usual condition which often happen in our life. The (2) second-chance are basicly all the way you have or die trying to do to reach your goals or even something you always call, a dream. I believe, there isn't just one specific second chance to fix the specific first chance. so in the previous sentences i wrote it "second chance ARE..". But the worst about (2) second chance is, in fact, some people still cling on with the "second-chance is something that rarely happens" philosophy. In most cases, those philosophy seems just limit the attempt to fix the first chance. People not have enough faith to believe themselves that they actually deserve a second chance. It is also happens in people which is facing the (3) second chance, they not enough believe that someone will award their a second chance after all they have done. The worst part about (3) second chance is when there isn't trust about someone who award between someone who deserve. The main point about (2) second chance is we just must count every way we will do or we have done (since it is the way to make something better) as a second chance. So if your dream is to have a better life, you will count every single day and chance as your second chance, you will be more positively see the world you will bravely step a day and minimize yourself regretness.

Life might be easy if we had a power to time travel like Tim in About Time. We might be easy and busy traveling to fix all the mistakes. 
But if those happened, do we still appreciate the time itself ?

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