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Meaning of Life
Topics: Life
Some of you may remember the movie "City Slickers," Comedian Billy
Crystal plays the part of a bored baby boomer who sells radio
advertising time. One the day he visits his son's school to tell about
his work along with other fathers, he suddenly lets loose a deadpan
monologue to the bewildered youngsters in the class:
Value this time in your life, kids, because this is the time in your
life when you still have your choices. It goes by fast.
When you're a teenager, you think you can do anything and you do. Your
twenties are a blur.
Thirties you raise your family, you make a little money, and you think
to yourself, "What happened to my twenties?"
Forties, you grow a little pot belly, you grow another chin. The music
starts to get too loud, one of your old girlfriends from high school
becomes a grandmother.
Fifties, you have a minor surgery -- you'll call it a procedure, but
it's a surgery.
Sixties, you'll have a major surgery, the music is still loud, but it
doesn't matter because you can't hear it anyway.
Seventies, you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale. You start eating
dinner at 2:00 in the afternoon, you have lunch around 10:00, breakfast
the night before, spend most of your time wandering around malls looking
for the ultimate soft yogurt and muttering, "How come the kids don't
call? How come the kids don't call?"
The eighties, you'll have a major stroke, and you end up babbling with
some Jamaican nurse who your wife can't stand, but who you call mama.
Any questions?
Billy Crystal, dialogue from the movie "City Slickers."