Come On

Life is very short. Each moment is more precious than any amount of any other quantity. Knowing that, it is incumbent on us all to spend our time on Earth as well as we possibly can. We must be as good and as productive as we can be. We must seize the opportunities that come to us, knowing how few there are likely to be. Each summer we ought to get to the beach or the lake as much as we can. Each winter we ought to learn to ice skate or play a new card game. We've got to take a shot at those we have a crush on. There's no time for fooling around.

We spend so much time and energy on things that are ultimately unimportant. They're making a movie based on 'Moneyball', the book which recounts Billy Beane's revolutionary attempts to make a winner of the Oakland A's by means of statistical analysis. It's an obvious story to tell through the majesty of cinema, of course. The point is that I have read an article questioning whether Brad Pitt was a good choice to play the role of Beane.