2010: The Year We Make Contact (abbreviated on-screen as simply 2010) is a 1984 American science fiction film written, produced, shot and directed by Peter Hyams.
Peter Hyams children have had interesting career paths. His first son, Chris Hyams, is the CEO of the job search website Indeed. His second son, John Hyams, is a film director (Universal Soldier: Regeneration). His third son, Nick Hyams, works as a battle rap promoter and host under the name Lush One.
I am very sorry about your dad. That scares the shit out of me and I think I won’t share that tidbit with my wife. She had a rough time with it as she was not expecting that I would have such major health incident at such a young age.
My firm has been in operation for almost twenty years. The most common addiction, even if you don’t get physically hooked, are uppers. Ritalin, focalin, energy drinks, etc. Anything that gives you hyper focus.
As far as consequences go, I had four stents installed at 44 and cancer at 49. It should have been a bypass but my surgeon is a fucking rockstar. Had I not given up red meat in my twenties, I probably would have had a massive heart attack before forty.
Mental health is always a struggle, but we try to implement as many safeguards as possible. It’s still not enough.
We have an entire set of rules for mandatory time off, max hours between rest and sabbaticals between large projects, and it is still a struggle to keep staff healthy. It is just a brutal line of work. It takes a toll on your body too. Shit, I had to get four stents on my heart at 44 and cancer at 49.
…nothing has ever been normal in American politics…
American politics have been pretty boring most of my life (I’m 50). Shit got weird with the “hanging chads” but we moved on fairly well. Newt Gingrich and crew were pretty nasty but nothing crazy. Then shit went off the rails with the Tea Party and MAGA.
I think the true conversation there got derailed by semantics. Clearly he feels anger but what I think he was asking was if it is healthy to always shut it down and internalize it. In my opinion, the answer to that was a resounding “no”. By not dealing with that anger, even when it’s disguised as “feeling dumb” (self-deprecation or sometimes even self-hate) or frustration, he has allowed it to fester, take up emotional real estate in his mind, and always be there waiting to bubble up or straight up burst when something seemingly unrelated triggers it.
I think Garnt was on the right emotional track originally. He intuitively knows that he has shit he should deal with rather than internalize. This is why I do not recommend taking the words of your therapy as gospel. Ultimately, if you are able to be self aware as Garnt seems to be, you will know you better. Therapy is a way to guide you towards the answers you seek or didn’t even know you were seeking. Therapy is not there to give you the answers. Maybe, hopefully, it is there to help you ask better questions.
