“Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family,
Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars,
compact disc players, and electrical tin openers.
Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose
fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose
your friends.

Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece
suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY
and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on
that couch watching mind-numbing sprit-crushing game shows,
stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away
at the end of it all, pissing you last in a miserable home,
nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up
brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future.
Choose life.”

Why do we do things that we wouldn’t ever think of doing? We always want to become like people we look up to. People who are successful, people who are rich, and people who are happy. But again, why do we do things that we wouldn’t see ourselves do. Do drugs, smoke, cheat, lie.

Like in the movie Mr. Deeds, in the end of the movie, Adam Sandler made a speech to save the company his uncle put up. Along the speech, a lot of people ended up becoming the opposites of the things they wanted to be when they were younger. And one term that Adam Sandler used that got my attention was “if we ever came across the 3rd grade versions of ourselves, they’d beat the crap out of us” (more or less).

Now comes the movie Trainspotting. It’s about this group of friends and the path they took through life. It mainly revolves around Renton, who in the end sees that he has to change who he is to become a better person. Choose life! That’s his motto. And well we eventually have to change who we are now for the better to become successful and stuff…so I guess we do have to choose life. Stop smoking, drinking and doing drugs. We have to choose life!

“So why did I do it? I could offer a million answers, all false.
The truth is that I'm a bad person, but that's going to change,
I'm going to change. This is the last of this sort of thing. I'm
cleaning up and I'm moving on, going straight and choosing life.
I'm looking forward to it already. I'm going to be just like you:
the job, the family, the fucking big television, the washing
machine, the car, the compact disc and electrical tin opener,
good health, low cholesterol, dental insurance, mortgage, starter
home, leisurewear, luggage, three-piece suite, DIY, game shows,
junk food, children, walks in the park, nine to five, good at
golf, washing the car, choice of sweaters, family Christmas,
indexed pension, tax exemption, clearing the gutters, getting by,
looking ahead, to the day you die.”