The Future Isn't Written In Stone

Its nearly the end of July, its one month closer to the end of the year and another step forwards towards the future. May it be looking bright, dull, frightening, happy, boring, exciting. That may matter now, but think the future isn't written in stone! The first time i heard that line, from the once hit TV show, which sadly burnt and turned to ash, Heroes. The end of the first season, Peter Petrelli is about to go nuclear and take the whole of New York with him. Everybody is watching, scared and useless as his hands begin to shine bright orange, Claire (That once hot cheerleader who became so irritating) holds a gun to Peters head. Peter tells her straight to shoot him, that it is the only way to stop him from exploding and to save the day, tears in her eyes, fall down her cheek as she begs for another way out of this horrible situation. Just as she prepares herself to pull he trigger, Nathan Petrelli comes flying in gives Claire the answer she needs, another way out. Nathan knew that something bad was about to go down but was persuded to accept it and let it happen. For a while, Nathan was happy to let it so but right in the last second, when all hope was loss, he made a stand and came to his brothers aid and also the whole of New Yorks. He stood there and said 'The future isn't written in stone.'

These six simple words have stuck with me since i first watched that episode, bare in mind it aired on 21st May 2007. Thats pretty much six years ago! Those words always come back to me, when i'm feeling down, feeling upset, feeling that life might just keep spiralling downwards instead of upwards i stop and take a minute to think. 'The future isn't written in stone.' Even when the days ahead seem tough and unbearable, you could goto sleep that day thinking things are just going to get worse and when you wake up, it could well be the best day in your life. Myself, i'm a worrier, i worry a bit to much then i should, but then hey i guess were only human. Last year i embarked on a journey to universty, a short lived experiance for me, i had horrible housemates, didn't enjoy my course as much as i hoped i would and just didn't really have one of the best experiaces there, so on my 20th birthday i made the big decsion, after making the big decision to goto uni, i chose to quit it. Just like that, i'm a dirty uni drop out... or have i got the wrong saying there..?

Quitting uni, i now work full time, not in what i want to be doing and for the past few months i have sturggled with wether or not i made the right decision quitting uni, i couldn't seem to write anything, do anything, i just seemed to be on auto-pilot for a lot of the time inbetween. In my head it just seemed to me that i had failed and would be stuck working a day job in a supermarket forever..!!! I remeeber thinknig to myself that day, if only. Thats when that quote popped into my head again. 'The future isn't written in stone.' After that thought hit me, life seemed a lot clearer, i stopped moping about and started planning for the the future, planning what i want to do, have a career creating movies! Because i bloody love films, i love the whole process behind it, i love writing storys. I guess the messege i'm trying to drill into your heads and into mine still is, stop, relax, observe, enjoy the little things in life, do what makes you happy even if it will take a while to get there. Yes you may have relationship problems, you may still fancy that girl/guy who you know you'll never be with, you may not see a light at the end of the tunnel but hey 'The future isn't written in stone.'

I'm beginning to bore myself with my blabber... maybe its not good to blog after 2am. Why do i always seem to blog after 2am! I'm going to drag myself of the laptop into the land of nod... but guys remeber one thing for me...

'The future isn't written in stone.'

Bring on the Summer

Well the first of July is officially over... Not saying that something important happened, well not for me anyways. Just another average day, however i did stay in bed till past 3pm... Don't worry i have the perfect reason why! Because as it being the first of July, you remember when you were in school?(Or you maybe still be in school) When you used to go round pinching the first friend you can find them punching them afterwards, yeah thats why i stayed in bed till past midday to avoid being pinched and punched! However that didn't work because when i finally got up and ventured out the house to meet my 'lovely' friends i still ended up getting punched because of that game called 'Punch YELLOW car no returns... or Punch 'Insert Colour' Mini no returns' Who actually created this game, because its not a fun game if your to slow to hit your mate! 

With it finally hitting July i'm at last starting to feel the summer vibe! I have never been so excited for summer before! Because the sun is shining, you have that smell of BBQ and apparently its ment to be great weather till August. Living in England however i'm not sure how true that last statement was. With the heat cranking itself up and the dreadful rain beginning to disappear it appears me might actually have a pretty lovely summer, i can picture it now, sitting outside the pub having a cold pint of fosters to keep me chilled, a defiant visit to the beach since every summer i plan to go however i never actually get round to it and what i'm looking forward to most of all... PAINT BALLING! Well i'm lying there actually thats probably number two, number one however is making films! 

Thats my plan with this lovely summer is to grab a camera, write a few shorts and go out and shoot some stuff. Because i have big plans starting from today, big plans i need to stick to! You see i have big dreams, because its good to dream big. Cause if you don't dream big then whats the point of dreaming and if your not scared of your dreams then your dreams just aren't big enough yet. Yes i can be all whats that word, nostalgic? No, i literally just had it on the tip of my fingers! Anyway back to the point. I'm a dreamer, i love to dream big, i dream about so much everyday and today it finally hit me, stop sitting in bed and take a chance on your dreams. So thats what i plan to do with Been Found Films. The name of this blog actually, is to start bringing it out of the dreams within my head and into reality. We have finally even got a logo! Its such a playful logo and i love it to pieces. A big thanks to the design to Jay Boulton, for without you we would never have a cartoony morph picture and to Jake Robinson for actually taking that and slapping some words next to it to make the logo i'm in love with, i hope you guys love it to!

Now i seem to be rambling on, i seem to do this a lot when its hit past midnight! So i think its time to goto the land of nod.. On the words of Been Found Films, if your a facebook user why not like are page by clicking here! Enough advertising from me. I really am going to bed now before i start talking utter nonsense... Wait to late. I'll end this blog with some wise words...

Its time to dream big and take those dreams forward to reality.