Dolls

For those who don't know me all that well, let me tell you something about myself: I hate to have unfinished stories.  This causes me problems sometimes.  Problems like the first time I read the Harry Potter books.

I think I better read all of those in a week to be sure...

This is one of the main reasons why I try to avoid TV shows like the plague.  Especially the ones on Amazon Prime or Netflix.  I simply cannot stay awake long enough for all seven seasons of whatever television show with which you have completely fallen in love.

And that's when I washed my life away...

But I decided to indulge myself.  It is now 6:30 AM and I have finished the second and (thankfully) the last season of the television show I decided to watch.  What, pray tell, was the show?  I don't recommend it much, but the premise was interesting.  It is a TV show produced by Joss Whedon called Dollhouse.

And this is the logo

The premise is a technology that can erase you and record someone else over your brain.  This has lead to the creation of dollhouses: secret, very expensive, for-hire programmable people.  This of course is abused, weaponized, and leads to the end of civilization as we know it (all technology does this.  I know, it's in all the movies).  The plot was decent.  There was way too much sex in my opinion (if you want my views on this, feel free to ask, but here is not the time and place).  But overall, I'm not sure it was worth my time...except for maybe one or three lessons...

The irony of using this image is not lost on me.

People volunteered to be "dolls" when they felt they couldn't face life.  They ran away from it.  Then they lost years of their lives.  They gave those years away.  They let themselves become someone else.  Lesson 1: running away from your problems will never solve them; they must be faced.  Lesson 2: Everyone and everything is trying to tell you who to be, and you decide how much they program you; being an individual in a programmed world is perhaps the most powerful thing you can do.  Lesson 3: Above everything else, doing what's right makes you more of an individual than anything else; doing what's wrong brings very boring sameness.  Lesson 4: Live your life, every minute of it; don't give your life away to work or games or movies or TV shows ( I know, I'm working on it); your time here is precious and may never come back; do those things, but do them to enhance your life, not to be defined by them.

There, now you don't have to watch it ;).  Live life!  Give love, receive love.  Do what is right, let the consequence follow :). 

Now if you'll excuse me, there's a night's sleep I need to catch up on...

So you didn't waste your time, puppy.