There’s a quote by Ion Creangă:
Vorba ceea:
— Măi Ioane, dragi ţi-s fetele?
— Dragi!
— Dar tu lor?
— Şi ele mie!…
(- Do you like girls? – Yes! – But do they like you back? – I also like them!)
There’s a thing about liking others, which I want to talk about in this article.
There’s a quote in „Whisper of the Heart” (1995) / „Mimi wo sumaseba” (1995) which I like:
„All right, Shizuku, go ahead and do what your heart tells you. But it’s never easy when you do things differently from everyone else. If things don’t go well, you’ll only have yourself to blame.”
Thoughts on it?
I’ve seen „Whisper of the Heart” (1995) / „Mimi wo sumaseba” (1995). Thoughts?
There’s a joke that a prostitute considers it to be great luck to have chosen this career, after graduating some difficult BA.
Un domn trecut de prima tinerețe, dar cu portofelul gras, agața la bar o tânără frumoasă. După puțin timp ajung în apartamentul domnișoarei. Până ce tânără se „pregătește”, domnul vrea să pună un CD pentru atmosferă. Pe raft: Brahms, Verdi, Ceaikowski etc….
– Vai, dragă, asemenea muzică asculți tu?!
– Ah, da, am uitat să vă spun că eu am absolvit Conservatorul.
Domnul se lăsă păgubaș cu muzica, dar vede cărțile din bibliotecă. Pe raft: Eliade, Goethe, Pușkin etc….
– Vai, dragă, asemenea cărți citești tu?!
– Ah, da, am omis să vă spun că am terminat și filologia.
– Păi, bine, fato, dar prostituata cum ai ajuns?!
– Ah, printr-un mare noroc!…
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I have some poor memories, times when I did wrong, times when I wasn’t treated as expected. Still, the good memories in my life are so important that they far outweigh the difficult times.
„How did you get those poor memories? Through luck – see, I have some poor, but also some very good memories!”.
I’m so lucky that I have some poor memories, which make the good memories really shine!
I never really had some money on my own. I started having some budgets and money to spend after I finished high-school.
Although I always had plenty of things, and food, and shelter, and fun, and all sorts of pleasures, I never had a big sum of money at my disposal, some things were off-limits. I didn’t live a poor childhood, but, certainly, not a rich one. (OK, if you say „rich” = food + education + love + shelter + some pleasures, then, yes, we were rich)
In the whole childhood, we only went on a trip outside visiting some relatives two or three times. I still have some rather strange travel habits.
So, when I was about 19, I started having some budgets and some money to spend. I made huge mistakes with money for a while, I had no clear way of handling them, I wasn’t aware of what’s expensive and what’s cheap, why should I buy from a supermarket instead of a nearby store, why sometimes the nearby store was the better option, and so on.
It took me a while to get accustomed to the idea of having money, on how to budget them, and to know what’s more important than having money.
As a lesson out of all of these, if you have children, I’d consider giving them a little budget. They will make mistakes, for sure, but sometimes it’s better to make a mistake when you’re 15 than when you’re 20.
If you look at the grades of the movies on IMDb, most of the popular movies fall between 6 and 7.5. If it’s above that, it’s likely a good movie, if it’s below that, it’s likely a very poor one.
Sure, there are certain specificities to this: comedies don’t get good grades on IMDb, you’ll rarely see a comedy having a good grade.
Also, action-movies, more recently, especially if they have some special effects, tend to get high grades.
I prefer watching movies with a grade above 7, but don’t always do so.
Also, for the movies in IMDb Top 250, I prefer to see them again as time goes by. It’s one thing to see the Godfather when you’re 20, and another thing to see it again 20 years later.
When I grade a movie, I tend to give it a minimum 8, 10 if it’s highly good, a 9 if it impressed me somehow. Recently, I haven’t given grades below 8, and even if I do, not less than 7. I think that the movie creators deserver a bit of appreciation, even if I don’t agree with the ideas in a movie 100%.
I follow a similar principle on Goodreads, where I give most books 3/4 stars, and to the top books 5 stars.
