"It's Not Going to Stop"

After walking out of class of Tuesday, the only real thought I had in my mind was something like, “what the hell did I just see”?  With raining frogs and a lot of depressed people, Magnolia was one of the most interesting, disheartening movies I have ever seen.  The scene that probably most sticks in my mind from the movie is when almost every character’s lives are falling apart in front of their lives to the tune of Aimee Mann’s Wise Up.  The song, quite depressing and gloomy alone (making it extremely fitting in the film), centers around the line “It’s not going to stop.”  

Sometimes in life when things are not going well I kind of just want it to stop.  I want to be able to freeze time where it is, go back and change something, or just have a break from the harshness of life.  Time however, is one of nature’s few constants.  It is persistent for every human in the world, no matter how rich or poor or where you live.  Minutes are minutes, seconds are seconds, and years are years.  No matter how much we may want it to sometimes, time will never stop; it never has before us and it never will long after we are gone.  All we can do as human beings is accept this fact and try to our best abilities to improve ourselves.  

You cannot change the past, all you can do it affect the future.  

With characters dying, addicted to drugs, and overwhelmed with life, the characters all sing along to the words “it’s not going to stop.”  It is the main moment in my mind when all of the characters’ stories come together.  They are all going through terrible, emotional moments in their lives.  And as much as they can want it to, “it’s not going to stop.”