...there's a scene in Matrix Revolutions, where the deviant Agent Smith is throwing a beating to a rain-drenched Neo. If you're unfamiliar with the storyline for whatvever reason, the Matrix trilogy, now considered by many to be simultaneously ground-breaking sci-fi and digitally-enhanced cinematic treacle is set in the not-so-distant future and the human race is at war with computers/ murderous programs who grow humans in cornfield-like rows of pods for generating biothermic energy which is converted into electricity (as the meat popsicles have scorched the skies in an attempt to keep the robots from generating solar heat)...Agent Smith, who insists on calling the story's pod-born main character Neo by his surname, is one of the bad guys... is one of them and he's kicking the shit out of the protagonist at one point and he semi-rhetorically asks his human adversary why he even continues to get up and fight...why does he rise everyday when he knows "inevitably" that he will get knocked on his ass at some point and while the rain pours in buckets down on his face (it's obvious he's in pain from getting slapped around) Neo simply replies: "because I choose to"...
...no matter what you choose to do with your day, be it working a shitty gig while you make your way toward something else more to your liking or studying or whatever, make sure you're at least heading somewhere that you eventually want to be...to quote my man Tracy Jordan's character on 30 Rock, "*Live every week LIKE IT'S SHARK WEEK"*...now get out there and get into it...but first do the robot to this Daft Punk jam, you're only (Human After All)...
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