Don Jaun DeMarco

The other day I watched the movie Don Jaun DeMarco. It’s a movie with Johnny Depp about this guy who is convinced he is this Don Jaun DeMarco character who is apparently the greatest lover who ever lived. He tries to commit suicide because his one true love was taken away from him and he feels there is nothing left to live for. This psychiatrist is able to talk him out of it and he is committed to a mental institute. This psychiatrist is retiring in one week, so his boss is reluctant to give him this case, but the psychiatrist really wants to have it, so eventually he gets it. He talks with the Don and the Don tells him his story about his childhood. The Don is convinced that this is the truth making him appear even crazier. The psychiatrist asks him if he knows where he is, and the Don replies with some ludicrous answer, not helping his reputation. The Don then goes on to say that yes, he knows that he is in a mental institute, but that just on way of looking at it. He says something about how life can be looked at in multiple ways, and not one person’s way is right. The psychiatrist is completely amazed by this answer and the Don in general. The psychiatrist changes his life completely and begins enjoying things more and more. The Don preaches this stuff in such a way that makes you believe it, and in reality, its true. Does not every person have their own perception of life, of what it is meant for? Does not everyone want different things from life? Who’s to say what is right and wrong. If you see something one way, it does not make you wrong if someone else sees it another, only different. Reality is only a state of mind, and seeing as everyone has a different mind, reality must be different for everyone. You can sit back and go with the norm and do things how people say they are supposed to be done, or you can decide that that’s not how you want to do them, and do them in a way that adds joy to your life, and hopefully to the lives around you. I choose the latter because I want to deicide for myself what life should be, as should everybody else who wants a life of their own.