Bullet Proof Idea

Hello all once again , welcome to my blog of ideas, chatter and basically an honest open talk out of my head

I am writing once again after living life in most of its ways, after ups and downs across a couple of months since my last post and especially after I have just come back from visits to hong kong and australia, I write today about one of my favourite films and a riddle based in it depicting to life and living.

Here we have bulletproof monk a brillant film if I may say, martial arts, history, a fantastic coming to story of life and how people can complete in each other.... sorta but thats part of you watching the film to get that but none the less I think its a beautiful film, what I am writing about is a riddle given to Kar from the monk with no name.

He says to Kar during once of the scenes "why do hot dogs come in packages of ten and hot dogs come in just packages of eight?"

No doubt all of you do the same thing I did when I heard it and what Kar even says is "what the hell is that". I know confusing right but you do think on it and so does Kar initially like life when we first come to grips with it as growing tennagers, young adults and adults alike you do go.... what the hell is this, what the hell is that, AM I EXPECTED.... TO KNOW ANSWERS TO THIS?!?!?!

And you know what we don't but thats a point in life, you experience something new and unknown and you have your initial reaction to it and then you go away from that experience having known it and learn and develop from it and then when you think on it and come back to it you believe you know the answer after developing further and you think you know the answer like Kar who comes back and says to The Monk with no name:

I just realised I actually can't find full quote but I believe it is along these lines
"I got the answer to your riddle, the reason is so that people buy more because they need it to fulfil the hot dogs and then need more hot dogs to fulfil buns a great way to get more money and progress..." 
I may have altered it slightly but thats what he more or less says to which monk goes nice answer but no

again thats we experience, we think we know the answers after experiencing it and trying find our own way in it but rarely in life do we first experience or learn something and then boom have the answer like that no , we must come up with our own answer and come back to compare again to how we were then to now and how we got from our first point a to now point b
( I am aware this seems to be little random lecture type thing but bear with me, I will be back on track :P )
So again we have learnt and developed and off we go again to once again progress from our new perspective.

and at the very end of course like we do after a long and hard journey through different elements and aspects of life we learn what we feel is the right answer which is our belief answer its makes sense, its logical and above all else it feels right to us and down to the bones of our soul,
the answer Kar arrived at was this and I love this quote with much gusto

"So, I figured it out, why hot dogs come in packages of ten and hot dog buns come in packages of eight. See, the thing is, life doesn't always work out according to plan so be happy with what you've got, because you can always get a hot dog."

I love it because its true, we go through life, facing challenges and the most difficult situations , we have ups and downs, we laugh, we cry, we get angry and we experience again and again and again and again and AGAIN! 

thinking I know now, and then we learn again and feel we know now but we are continually living life and learning and yes it may not go according to how we plan but be happy with what we have got because if you truly do that with life it can only get better... now go get a hot dog and remember no matter where you are in life now.... it only gets better :).

thank you for reading

peace love and best regards

the man in the hat 

Joseph Reynolds X 

Re-discovery

Hello Again
To all who read this blog

I am currently writing at 2:21am, my usual time of up late and thinking deeply etc etc, I write this after some deep thought and having watched fully 'Shrek The Musical' ( Bloody good if you've not seen it, watch it, really good)

And I had a small moment in it and I can't remember where exactly may have been an hour and forty-seven minutes into it, but I had a moment of resonance, that sparked my brain and connected to me on a different level. What that level was I cannot describe but I remembered why I wanted to fully get into technical theatre , why I left university in liverpool to change my career path, why I wanted to improve my self, having that first spark of why I wanted to be a theatre technician started a chain re-action of why I have made changes to my life, why I wanted to move out of liverpool, why I chose to do many things in last couple of year to change and improve my lifestyle.

I have had various stress or implications / complications - what ever you wanna say or call them or whatever at uni with shows/people/work you name or pick it it's been there or happened. ( that may not be good english I can't tell ). But I strayed off my life path as we all do from time to time, but gladly I got some down time at home and got to re-visit places and people who was there when I started it all, these actions leading up to now, I caught up with them and re counted my new tales, I discussed theres and generally a peaceful catch up and play with people.....it got me back to my roots which was what I fully needed I think.

There are many people I have to thank for it, alas I can't name them all but if you have seen me this week, you know who you are drama people, new friends, old workers and of course My best friend ryan always you.
But this thanks not only goes to them but to people in carlisle , two people especially who have to put up with me in probably the hardest working conditions and stressful conditions... I don't know how you guys do it but without you, I don't think I would have lasted as long as I have.

I am going strong, I may  have ventured off my path but I remembered why I took it in the first place, It is a hard path forging your goals and then saying thats where I am going , it may be long, it may be hard and I may have to venture off here or there but this is what I want....

Usually my post have a picture and better define meaning to them, but this one is really just me rambling about my re-discovery moment, me remembering the basics, the fundamentals, the reasons I chose to change and to the life I wish to live...
I hope you all get that and you all experience it yourself, its a beautiful feeling and one I wish I have again and again in life... especially at the end when I have achieved something spectacular

Thank you all who are there and support me through life, to those who inspired, to those who are reading
and especially to those who know what I am talking about and know that without them, I would never be here now or writing this post.... THANK YOU  
Best Regards
Your man in the hat
Joseph Reynolds ;) X