Monday 18 December 2006

it's time to make that choice:

"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, pishing 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... But why would I want to do a thing like that? "
-renton, trainspotting
this was me a little while ago
tihs is me now:
"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."
-renton, trainspotting

4 comments:

Steven said...

I love that movie.

Steve~

Lindsey said...

Okay..maybe I'm the only one that didn't like that movie.

Miss Ash said...

Steven stole my comment....STEALER!!! :)

I saw that movie 3 times at the theatre...i love it.

"In a word: pleasure. It's like, my pleasure in other people's leisure."

Miss Ash

Px said...

steve
it's a very british movie with so many quotable sections and shit like that

lindsey
shame on you!

ash
it's ok, we all know you love it more than steve ;)