Making Every Moment Count
“I’m too weak,” “I’m too slow,” “I’m too small,”-How many times a day do we find ourselves complaining, or better yet, making excuses. Whether it be to my parents “I’m not in the mood,” or to a teacher or professor “I forgot the due date to the assignment, ” or even to myself, “I’m too lazy,” the reality is, I believe that I can speak on behalf of most of us and say that it is way too easy to complain, and be ungrateful.
Many aspects of this short clip caught my attention. Firstly, every sentence or thought that Matt Scott verbalized began with “I.” How many times a day to we actually stop to think about others? How many times a day do we ignore our surroundings and only focus on our goals and missions for the day? On the flip side though, how often do we shift the blame from others to ourselves. It is ironic that it’s easy to point out the flaw in ourselves that we are selfish and self-centered; we live in a face paced world where it is easy to led days slide by without taking a moment to breathe and enjoy our surroundings rather than ignore them. Yet, when a situation arrises where there is a person at fault, we are so quick to point fingers and all of a sudden the focus shifts to others. Why?
What really provoked me though was the scene at :52 seconds in this clip. Had Matt Scott stopped here-I would’ve been satisfied and still would’ve thought that this video was one of the best things I’ve seen on the internet so far. This short clip by Nike was a source of introspection for me and motivated me to work on myself and to start finding the good in things rather than complaining about what I’m handed. However, as the video flipped from :52 to :53 seconds, I was blown away-“and my feet hurt,” was the icing on the cake for me; it put everything into perspective. For a minute, to be frank, I felt that Scott was guilting me-I should pity him for his disability. But, when I took a step back and focused on the bigger message, Scott so perfectly summed up this motivational clip.
Let’s make every moment count.
One response so far
I love motivational videos and this video was surely motivational. I know that I complain almost everyday. I know that I think of myself too much, and that I often forget about my family and friends problems, because I am too wrapped up in my own. I try to spend a little time each day thinking about my family and friends. I think the video is trying to rid its viewers of a feeling of self-pity. It truly forced me to look at my own life in a new way.