Life is a Playground or Nothing

The Curation Series: “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.” ― Hunter S. Thompson

Nate Johnson
1 min readMay 11, 2020
‘Mr. Nobody’

Time is Running Out

I watched the film, Mr. Nobody, last night.

It’s the story of all the potential outcomes one 9-year-old boy might experience by making or not making a single choice.

He wakes up in a bed in 2092 and everyone in the world is now quasi-immortal.

A journalist questions him about what life was like when people were mortal, which is where Mr. Nobody (Jared Leto) tells him about all the realities he might have lived.

At the end, the journalist simply asks him if he’s afraid of dying.

Mr. Nobody responds with the following.

Get Out and Play

Play. Play. Play.

Get dirty. Get hurt. Have adventures. Lose your money. Make it back. Write about it. Make enough bad stuff and it will become good.

But don’t shrink from anything. Don’t be at the end afraid you didn’t take advantage of every inch.

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This article is Day 26 of the 30-Day Fishbowl Series

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Nate Johnson

“The Zen philosopher, Basho, once wrote, ‘A flute with no holes, is not a flute. A donut with no hole, is a Danish. He was a funny guy.” — Ty Webb, ‘Caddyshack’