Tennis Fan
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I just finished watching Wimbledon (the movie). Truth is, it's almost 2:10AM. The movie started right after I wrote "February." It's a great movie and coincidentally, it has some value to what I was going to write in this entry. Well, not really, but the mind can find answers to almost anything - even if it has to make it up.
But first off, let's talk about what the movie was really all about - none of my imagination mixed in yet: Fear. Or at least that's what I think it was about. Fear was the thing stopping Paul Bettany's character Peter "Something" from becoming a champion. It was what made him choke at the end of his best games. It was really his one true opponent. Now I'm sure love helped. In fact, that's what the movie pretty much says in the end: love made him a champion. (here comes the imagination part) But I think it's what love made him do that's more important. It made him eradicate his fear and point his thinking pattern to a new direction. Amazing huh?
Another part of the story, my favorite part, was how the underdog won the game, over and over again. All because he had a new set of attitudes. There's this saying that I love: "Commitment always precedes achievement." Always. That's amazing. I just got a new hope just writing that. So anyway... I know Peter Something didn't really show much commitment to his game, even when he started winning again. But, y'know, it just proves that his past losses didn't really matter. And that Peter Something had everything going against him. But he pulled through, man. He pulled through.
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>> The surgery that Vincent undergoes to increase his height in the movie Gattaca. It's named after the Russian doctor who invented it 40 years ago to treat dwarfism. This painful operation adds length by allowing new bone to grow in the gap left by gradually seperating ends of the broken bone. The patient's shinbones are cut in two, a brace is applied and metal pins would pull apart the bones a millimetre each day. Risks include feet permanently turned at odd angles, twisted legs, and weakened bones that break again and again.
>> What I did in June of 2005. I tell people it's either a rock climbing and/or car accident.
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