Fit for Life: Crazy Day? Not really!! Read This Then Tell Someone You Had a “Tough” Day

Fit for Life: Crazy Day? Not really!! Read This Then Tell Someone You Had a “Tough” Day

Nothing irritates me more when you ask someone if they accomplished a task and their reply is: “No, it’s been a crazy day.”

Or when you ask someone “How was your day?”, and the response is the same: “I had such a crazy day.”

WTF does that mean?

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What’s is a crazy day?

 

When I hear that quote, it brings me back to one of my favorite movies “Pulp Fiction”.

If you know the movie, you know what a real crazy day looks like.

If you never saw the movie, read on and I will describe what a truly crazy day looks like. (I guarantee you that your day wasn’t that crazy after all)

The movie jumps around from the present to the past, and it depicts a day in the life of two unique mobsters that are following orders from their boss. The orders are to retrieve a briefcase, kill a fighter that disobeyed the boss, and to entertain the boss’s wife while he is away on business. Typical gangster orders to be carried out by two hitmen. Right? Not really.

It starts in a diner, following an incident where one man accidentally shoots another man in the face while driving around a busy street during broad daylight and covers the back window of the car with blood and brains.

This was after they recovered the briefcase, by killing the man that stole it. BTW, they shoot the briefcase thief several times after eating his burger, drinking his sprite, then reading a scripture from the Bible.

Little did they know that another man was hiding in a bedroom waiting to kill THEM.

When he burst out of the room, and fired 6 rounds at the hitmen, he missed all 6 shots at close range.

A real miracle to be able to survive this episode, so they leave in disbelief with the man that eventually accidentally gets shot in the back seat of the car.

This is what a crazy day starts to look like.

Now back to the diner scene.

All cleaned up from the previous 2 murders, the two hitmen start to order breakfast when some degenerate and his girlfriend attempt to rob the restaurant. He jumps on the table and instructs everyone to place their belongings in a bag but notices the gangsters didn’t comply. After a brief standoff, they let him and his girlfriend leave, grab the recovered briefcase, then head over to deliver it to the boss. The day gets crazier after every scene.

At the drop-off spot, the boss is in the process of fixing a fight with a boxer he employs. After a brief encounter with the hitmen, the fighter leaves, and Vince and Jules deliver the briefcase. During the exchange, the boss instructs Vince to entertain his wife while he is out of town on a business trip. Stay tuned, it gets crazier.

Before picking up Mrs. Wallace for a night out, Vince stops by his drug dealer friend's place, and cops a bag of heroin. After shooting up, he drives to pick her up to head out for a night on the town. After winning a dance contest at Jack Rabbit Slims, they head back to the Wallace residence for a nightcap.

While Vincent Vega is in the bathroom, Mia Wallace finds his stash, figures it to be cocaine, and snorts a huge line, then overdoses.

Fearful for his life, Vince takes her back to the dealer’s house for a shot of adrenaline and saves her life.

How’s that for an exciting night?

Throughout the rest of the movie, the fighter disobeys his boss and becomes a target. He heads home to recover a watch he left behind and finds an automatic weapon on his counter. The hitman left it there while using his bathroom, so the fighter picks it up, and kills the hitman when he exits the bathroom, then leaves his apartment to meet his girlfriend.

After leaving his apartment, he happens to see the boss that ordered the hit crossing the street, runs him down with his car, gets involved in a shootout on Hollywood Blvd. and ends up hiding in a pawn shop.

Turns out that the pawnshop owners are hillbilly rapist that end up having their way with the mob boss in the basement, before the fighter (Butch) frees himself, kills the hillbilly rapist, frees the boss and makes amends.

Can you imagine this scenario? Crazy right?

Why am I writing about a violent and bloody Quinten Tarantino movie that was released during the early ’90s.

I didn’t write this as a movie review, but to put things into perspective.

 

What is a normal day?

Is there such a thing?

 

Do we need to be overly dramatic and think because you were late for an appointment, someone doesn’t show up for work, you get a flat tire, or you got caught in traffic you had a CRAZY day?

Even today, while we are currently living in unprecedented times, where life is far from normal, and we need to adapt to change, are things really that bad for folks that haven’t experienced loss or death throughout this whole event? Probably not.

Yes, a lot of people will be affected on an economic level, and some things are looking grim, but when this ends, and you still have your health, everything else will be fixable.

Ask yourself these questions at the end of each day: Did you get shot at? Shoot someone else either intentionally or accidentally? Did someone put a hit on you? Did your boss’s wife have an overdose in front of you? NO?

Then you didn’t have such a crazy day after all, and things really aren’t that bad.

Changing the way, we operate, socialize, purchase goods, and conduct business has become more inefficient, difficult, and an annoyance, but at the end of each day we go home, eat, then sleep so we can get up and continue on with our lives.

Is your family good? Is your faith in yourself on point? Is your health and fitness up to par?

Then you are doing ok and are just experiencing inconvenience and dealing with a difficult time.

Nothing throughout your day was that crazy, so don’t dramatize the small stuff, and keep focusing on the big picture and creating solutions for the minor problems we are either facing or are about to face.

 

Committed to your success,

Coach Matt