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What The Movie "About Time" Really Wants You To Know

I've never felt so realistically inspired.

Kiayrah Wehr

Jun 30, 2019

Shippensburg University

What The Movie "About Time" Really Wants You To Know

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The bitter-sweet and romantic comedy will have you ready to grab your tissues and put a knot in your throat. But most of all, it will make your heart ache for your own life, when you realize you've got it all wrong. "About Time" is about a young man, Tim, who learns the men in his family can travel back in time. His life after having learned of his ability, completely changes his perspectives on how to live life. Here are five things that "About Time" teaches you.

There truly are no second chances.

Sometimes it can be a harsh reality that you absolutely can never change the past. You don't get three wishes, no do-overs, and no time traveling. Accepting life for what it is can actually be liberating. You will learn to find the good in everything that is seemingly bad.

In the movie, Tim is full of regrets. He goes back in time to fix the situations, only to learn upon his return that he regrets ever changing it. Since time-travel is not yet figured out in the modern world, we just have to "...live each day like you have deliberately gone back to this day to do it over." - Tim

Live today like you only get one chance.

Well, quite literally, you only get one chance at today. You have the ability to make every single day as positive or as negative as you choose. While you obviously can't control every instance, you can control how it affects you. Don't waste your time fretting about what you can't change. Use this time to make the day count for something good.

Fortunately in the movie, Tim's time traveling can change things he wishes didn't happen. However, this backfires as it changes positive things along with it. Moments are forever the way that they are, no more and no less.

Cherish your parents and guardians.

I think this is one of the most important things that I took from this movie. There is no avoiding the time in your life when your closest family members are no longer here with you. They are however, here right now. Tell them you love them, hug and kiss them, and make sure they know you appreciate them.

We can't all be like Tim and have about three "last moments" with our father before his funeral. So stop taking your parents for granted right now.

Be silly, and always be yourself.

You should never feel like you need to "tone yourself down" or act differently to please others. The movie inspired me to keep being my goofy and ridiculous self, because one day I will find someone that loves me for all of that and more. You will find someone that loves every single thing about you if you keep your head high and your heart open.

Watching the relationship between Tim and his wife Mary truly made my heart ache. It was so pure and real that I can only dream to live through a relationship like that.

Look beyond the everyday stressors of life.

After a typically "bad day" at work, take a minute to appreciate some of the positive things about it. You got home to your bed safely, your morning coffee was just right, or maybe someone just kindly held the door for you. Being thankful for the little things can help you keep your head straight and calm you down. You have got to stop missing all of these good moments because your head is filled with negativity. Before you know it, you could be looking back on 90 years of regrets.

Tim took his father's advice and relived each day almost exactly the same as before, but this time taking in all of the good parts and truly appreciating them. Unfortunately, we don't get this opportunity in the real world, so we have to make due with being in the moment.

If you have Netflix, you absolutely must spend two hours out of your day to watch "About Time". Everyone internalizes things differently, but the messages are clear. Life is so beautifully and miraculously set up for us. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain in streaming this movie.

"We're all traveling through time, together, everyday of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable life." - Tim Lake

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Live today like you only get one chance.

Cherish your parents and guardians.

Be silly, and always be yourself.

Look beyond the everyday stressors of life.

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#Adulting is hard.

1. Taking care of yourself when you're sick

2. Making a to-do list

3. Planning your activities around the weather

4. Scheduling your own doctor’s appointments

5. Getting your own toilet paper

6. Making food without needing to ask your mom questions

7. Holding your tongue

8. Saving your paycheck (or your tax refund) to pay your bills

9. Balancing your checkbook

10. Going places alone

11. Packing your own lunches

12. Actually eating your vegetables...on purpose

13. Taking a multivitamin

14. Planning a life after graduation

Sometimes bigger isn't always better.

1. If something happens, everyone knows about it

2. Never getting to be invisible

3. Knowing every single thing about every single person in the town

4. New kids are a big deal

5. It’s hard to make new friends

6. On that note ... the dating pool is even smaller!

7. Teachers are weirdly close to their students

8. It forced you to make friends out of school

"I'm hopeless and awkward and desperate for love"

1. That Time He Tested Out His Flirting Skills and This Happened

2. When He Was Willing to Do Anything to Avoid Confrontation

3. When He Couldn't Handle Awkward, Emotional Situations

4. How He Reacted Whenever His Friends Ignored Him

5. All of the Times He Worried About His Failing Love Life

6. Whenever He Tried to Whip Himself Into Shape

7. How He Handled New People and New Experiences

8. Whenever His Friends Got Annoying, He Was Always the Voice of Reason

9. He Always Knew How to Jam

10. He Finds a Way to Make Any Situation More Fun

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3. People refusing to be put on hold when a customer is standing right in front of you. Oh, how I wish I could just hang up on you!

4. Having the same conversations over and over again! To be honest I really don't even want to talk to you right now, or have this fake ass smile on my face!

5. Always having to have a smile on your face. I promise I'm not as happy as I may look!

6. Customers not understanding that sometimes, mistakes happen. I am a human being, we all mess up sometimes!

7. Having the boss from hell, it's their way or the highway! Even though I did my job correctly and efficiently, if I don't do it the exact way you do, I'm a piece of shit.

8. Having coworker who don't help out, who bend the rules just enough to screw you over.

9. Having to be at work after closing because a customer is taking forever and half! Not like I'd like to go home or anything!

10. Having shitty hours and more shifts than you asked for. Just because we don't have enough workers, doesn't mean I want to pick up every shift that you cant cover, oh great boss of mine!

11. Not having time for a social life. It gets old saying, "I can't I have work..." Every day of the week!

12. Having that lazy costumer who can't do anything for themselves... no please I'll get that, it's no problem at all!

It's just my face, I swear.

1. When you meet new people, they automatically assume you hate them or are rude.

2. People are constantly asking you if you're OK.

3. After being friends with someone for a while, they confess to you, "I thought you were so mean when I first met you," or, "I thought you hated me."

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