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Movies of nothing to Hannah Montana: A lesson in life

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Have you ever watched a series several years past its prime, and realized that you missed something big in your life? Now, I don’t mean that nostalgic feeling you get, the one where you want to go back and relive things. Rather, that feeling that you knew about something, you recognized it, but personal pride stopped you from enjoying it at the moment. Many forms of entertainment take the world by storm, but none are as culturally influential as a good sitcom. Each generation has its own set of sitcoms that influences them, for my parents these would have started at Cheers, swept through Frasier, and remembered through Friends. All of which are great sitcoms, all of which are still loved by new people each generation, but you get a different kind. A series that comes along and you watch it once or twice when it’s on TV, or you become a massive fan and watch it religiously, but then life happens. You grow up, forget about it, or the actors grow up and something just changes, they ch...

Consumer Consumption, I Have Seen A Truth

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The ability to have nothing and still be happy should be considered one of the greatest achievements on earth. It’s something that so few of us can still feel, the image I have of this is seeing rural communities meeting someone that has a lot for the first time. You must believe that up until that moment those people barely cared about more than finding something to eat, getting a new shirt and maybe go for a swim in the nearest lake. You know the people I am talking about, those smiling faces you always see gazing at a camera, absolutely amazed by a piece of technology we all complain isn’t good enough. Our world is moving faster and faster towards getting everything for everyone. We always try to get the next best thing, forgetting that we may already have something as good with us already. I myself am a big sinner when it comes to this, not one week after getting my Camera all the way back in 2010 I was looking at which camera would be the best next thing. Yet...