Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Hollywood time vs. Real World time

     Picture this... you go to bed at night and know that you need to wake up at a specific time the next morning so you set your alarm.  But you don't like the sound of the alarm so you set it to go off on your favorite radio station.  You go to sleep with no other concerns.  After a (hopefully) restful sleep your alarm clock goes off.  Now, tell me what you hear.  More than likely it's the middle of a song or the middle of the morning drive banter.  You wake up, hit snooze, and get up and go about your day.

     Now picture this.  You're watching your favorite TV show or movie, and the main character is lying in bed.  The camera focuses on the alarm clock next to their bed.  It usually says 6:29 or 7:59 or something just at the bottom or top of the hour.  And then it always flips over to the half hour or the hour and the radio goes off.  The main character wakes up to the morning DJ saying "Good Morning! It's 8 am and its a brisk Tuesday morning out there so bundle up."  When was the last time you heard a morning DJ say Good Morning in the middle of his/her show?  They certainly don't do it EVERY hour or half hour.

     People often wish their lives could be like movies: the action, the romance, the general awesomeness.  But I wish my life was like a movie so that when I set my alarm for 7:27, the morning DJ is sitting around waiting for me to wake up so he can greet me with a "Good Morning! It's 7:27..."

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