Be Kind, Rewind, Life on VHS - Summer Archive

Calm it Down

Chad Lawson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

What would you do if movie magic became reality? If, in the movies, we could always get what we wanted by just wishing hard enough or following our hearts, life would be a dream. However, as we all know, this is not the case. In real life, things don't always go according to plan. We make mistakes and sometimes life doesn't turn out the way we hoped it would. Just like in the movies, though, there is still much to be learned from these less-than-perfect moments. But listen in as you'll see there's a reason for this. And guess what, it's a great one. You won't be disappointed

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0:00.0	Believe it or not, there was once a time when you had to leave your house to rent a movie.
0:07.0	I know, I know, sounds bizarre. You would go to your local video store, you would browse the racks for what seemed like hours for a movie that you wanted to watch, and then you would take it home and you would watch it on your VCR video cassette recorder for some of you that may not
0:23.5	be familiar now before you could watch the movie you had to rewind it this was because the person who
0:29.8	rented the movie before you probably didn't have the courtesy to rewind it themselves thanks
0:35.5	so if you wanted to avoid having the ending spoiled,
0:40.2	you had to rewind the tape yourself. Thankfully, we now live in a world where we can rent
0:45.2	movies online and watch them from our computers or televisions or phones even. But the hashtag
0:51.4	before hashtags ever existed was, are you ready for this? Do you remember? Be kind, rewind. Be kind, rewind. It's a slogan that stayed with me since the video store days. If your life were a movie on a VHS tape, I'm sure you wouldn't tape over it, especially
1:14.5	with some really bad, long-forgotten episodes, like the real world.
1:18.8	Do you remember that show?
1:20.5	But would you really want to tape over your life and do things differently if you could?
1:27.4	Be kind. Be kind when you rewind and
1:30.8	reflect on your movie your your past even if you wish you could tape over it with a
1:36.8	totally new life like when it's late at night and you're tossing and turning
1:42.2	you're wide awake and in the movie of your life rewind in your head and you're tossing and turning, you're wide awake and the movie of your life
1:45.0	rewind in your head and you think, oh no, I said something embarrassing five years ago and
1:50.6	now I can't stop replaying it. There's no need to rewind and tape over the movie of your life.
1:59.0	Even if that embarrassing moment that you can't stop thinking about
2:01.7	really wasn't your finest moment, it's okay. We've all had those. The movie of your life is already
2:08.6	good. It's an up and down. It's a romantic. It's dramatic. It's comedic. It's an inspiring story
2:17.1	on a VHS tape.
2:18.3	And guess what? The movie isn't over.
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