How Cars (Movie) Teach Us About Life

dedicated to my very best friend and very close close friend

who will have a job interview tomorrow,,

Have you see Cars? It's a Pixar’s movie released in 2006, but I'm just having a chance to see it yesterday (?) after accidentally I found it’s VCD in Gramedia.

A story about hotshot rookie race car, Lightning McQueen, is living in the fast lane until he hits a detour on his way to the most important race of his life. Stranded in Radiator Springs, a forgotten town on the old route 66, he meets Sally, Mater, Doc Hudson, and a variety of quirky character who helps him discover that there’s more to life than trophies and fame.

These the quotes are and my interpretation,,

"Look at them driving right by, they don't even know what they're missing!" (Lightning McQueen)
To live in this age is about to get faster and faster coz our life has been controlled by our target, so we didn't figure out what we've just passed and even we forget that we're alive.

"Cars didn't drive on it to make great time. They drove on it to have a great time.” (Sally).
To live is about to enjoy every second of our life.

“Hah! This grumpy old race car I know now once told me something. Its just a empty cup." (Hudson Hornet).
Glories are nothing if you feel all alone.

"Lightning, there's a whole lot more to racing, than just winning." (Dinoco).
Achievements are nothing if you get no honor. Life is not about to win, but to make your self better day by day. A champion is not a best racer refers to other racers, but a better racer refers to his own.

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Have you ask yourself: “Am I alive?”

"I had a great time. It's kinda nice to slow down every once in a while". (Lightning McQueen)
Some say that we'll feel that we're alive when we’re sick. It means that when we get sick, beside a pain feeling, it's a chance to have a little rest and then we're have introspection about: what am I doing all this time? where will I go? and why am I still here in this world?.

Do you miss somethin’ today? Bird's fly, green trees, smell of morning haze, warmth of sunshine, bird's chirp, cold soil in the morning, wind’s blowing, and so on. If you aware of those things, you'll see this world much better, a wonderful world.

Life is a mission accomplishment. Steve Jobs ever said : "I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something."

Cars movie give me one lesson. May be we need to have a little rest to know where, with whom, and how do we actually should go through this life.

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Cars OST,,

Brad Paisley - Find Yourself

When you find yourself
In some far off place
And it causes you to rethink some things
You start to sense that slowly
You're becoming someone else
And then you find yourself

When you make new friends in a brand new town
And you start to think about settlin' down
The things that would have been lost on you
Are now clear as a bell
And you find yourself
Yeah that's when you find yourself

Where you go through life
So sure of where you’re headin'
And you wind up lost and it's
The best thing that could have happened
‘Cause sometimes when you lose your way it's really just as well
Because you find yourself
Yeah that’s when you find yourself

When you meet the one
That you've been waitin' for
And she's everything that you want and more
You look at her and you finally start to live for some one else
And then you find yourself
That’s when you find yourself

When we go through life
So sure of where we're headin'
And we wind up lost and it's
The best thing that could have happened
‘Cause sometimes when you lose your way it's really just as well
Because you find yourself
Yeah that's when you find yourself