Thursday, 21 May 2009

  • I feel ya, Ted Mosby

    I love how I learn my life lessons from How I Met Your Mother. This whole time I thought I was Robin Scherbatsky [i.e loving hockey/Canucks, being Canadian, planning to move/living in New York, being a tv reporter, losing her job, having Visa issues, thought about getting married for a green card, being a hobo and living in South America for a few months]. She is my twin!

    But it's what Ted says that really hits home.

    Ted: This is a disaster. How am I gonna come back from this?
    Lily: OK I'm just gonna ask this - do you wanna come back from this?
    Ted: What's that supposed to mean?
    Lily: Architecture is killing you Ted. And it's killing us to watch it killing you. You're like that goat with the wash cloth, you want it so bad. And every time the world tries to take it away from you, you keep grabbing it. But you know, it's just a wash cloth. Why do you even want it?
    Ted: Because I have to be an [architect]! That's the plan.
    Lily: Screw the plan, I planned on being a famous artist! Look, you can't design your life like a building it doesn't work that way. You just have to live it and it'll design itself.
    Ted: So I should just do nothing?
    Lily:
    No, listen to what the world is telling you ... and take the leap.

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