Personally, the musical movie, “The Greatest Showman”, led by Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Zendaya, and Michelle Williams, and released in December 2017, is one of the best movies I have ever seen.
I usually am a fan of Anime, Marvel, etc. So, my confession that my interest in Hugh Jackman from his days as Wolverine of X-men was what fueled my curiosity about what “The Greatest Showman” was likely to be, is understandable.
For me, the story and the songs were a blend of very strong emotional appeal to every person who has a dream. And almost all the scenes went from arousing feelings of passionate excitement to enigmatic melancholy and then back and forth again — before ending with some feel that would make you shed a happy tear.
Aside all the emotion and stuff, I was able to collate some personal lessons for myself.
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You always know - deep within you - where you really want to be.
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It’s okay to forget that dream (built by your imaginations) one way or the other, because you’d always later be reminded one way or the other.
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We’ll call you crazy - everyone of us - when you finally choose to be confident and follow that dream.
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Nothing, nothing, nothing can be compared to confidence. It will bring you good tidings, and sometimes, good people. P.S: Confidence comes from a latin word ‘fidere’ which means “to trust”; therefore, having self-confidence is having trust in one’s self. —Wikipedia.
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In the end, you do not really personally achieve anything, but the ones around you who believed one way or the other - they helped put all the pieces together. You are just the reason why they did it.
When you become ‘crazy’, you become a ‘reason’.
That’s all — for now. It’s totally fine if you disagree. I collated them for personal use.
Thanks for reading :)
I also should share that I enjoyed reading other people’s Quora answers to what personal lessons they learnt from the same movie: https://www.quora.com/What-life-lesson-did-you-learn-from-the-movie-The-Greatest-Showman