A nice long post, one to make up for the neglect: Why, The Social Network, made me change my mind on my life's path

Hi guys I felt like putting a lot of self-thought out there today, I bought The Social Network on DVD today, I think it may be one of the most personally impacting films I have ever scene. It's funny when you watch a movie and how certain elements grab you. But I don't think any movie has quantified the feelings in aggregate quite the way this one is. Seeing the opening, the awkwardness of Mark Zuckerburg on the screen really nailed some nuisances for me about how my life had been so far.

Once upon a time I used to hang out with people not unlike him, some of which were selfish, immature, yet technically brilliant and all of that which was wrapped in a manipulative shell, for the world to see. I stood no different than an ambivalent pauper for their amusement. They squandered my sense of loyalty, my generosity but a fringe benefit for their abuse. All the while believe their fun at my expense, and ultimately costing me my sense of self-worth and ability in anything I did. It has been two years since I talked to the last of they're number on frequent basis. But they don't seem change, it left me with a bitter-sweet taste of horrific ambivalence in my mouth.


This brings me to the intensity of mixed emotions I had watching this very well done film, it was creepily eerie to watch the bar seen as Mark totally bombed his girlfriend and didn't even realize it. Just like later on when he started hacking campus machines whilst working in a POSIX environment.

The moral of the film is this for me: Friends don't screw over loyalty and sacrifice, of other friends, for meager spoils.

Not unlike Saverin at the end of The Social Network I too have learned very grave lessons of this kind. Friends don't screw over other friends that help them with financial aid, and friends don't break up other friends' families for their own selfish gain.

After the movie was over my mind started swirling as a massive stream of consciousness, an aggregate of thoughts from long conversations had with other more honorable friends whom I've met and have shown me respect, to certain difficulties in my own personal life. All of it swirled and led me to the true conclusion that many things I had been thinking we're ordinary about me and equal to anyone else we're actually extraordinary, I just believed the false pretenses which I had bought into after being a kicktoy for so many other, "friends" I had made earlier in life.


You, realize as a result of all of this that you simply weren't really doing anything consciously for yourself in the matters of what your life is all about, you're just following a path subconsciously set based on false advertising that being IT is the only path for you and you will not be worth anything until that happens. It simply proved unlivable for me, and have this interesting entry and cinema to thank for that realization.

Thank you Social Network for the wake up call, now I can live my life a little less saddled with private nightmares.

-Re-GZ