I have labelled this blog 'Moments of Inspiration’ where I have included a small of list of moments such as music and movies that like to watch that can help inspire when I am feeling down.
Songs
Firework by Katy Perry
Although I am not fan of Katy Perry, I find this to be one of the most beautifully written lyrics in a song. To me this song inspires people that the dream is not over and that you do not have to be perfect and something beautiful can come your way if can ignite the spark of inspiration in yourself that motivates yourself do something and to think positive.
I love the quote from the song "Maybe your reason why all the doors are closed so you could open one that leads you to the perfect road" and that makes me think that the reason for all the many rejections especially in my case job applications is that the perfect one may be just around the corner (Fingers crossed).
Firework cover by Boyce Avenue/David Choi
After hearing it a couple of days ago. I have also included the cover by Boyce Avenue and David Choi who is one of my favourite youtube artists. This cover version is slower but I find is much more pleasant if you are not into modern pop songs.
Tong Hua 童话(Fairytales）Cover by Jason Chen/J Rice
This song is originally in Mandarin by Malaysian Chinese artist Michael Wong (光良) but I find that the original video clip is one of the most depressing Music Videos but the words to the song (if you can understand them) are one the most beautiful written. In short it is about someone who think that they fail in their dreams and that it is all an unreal fairytale but then someone comes to lend a hand to help to make the fairytale real.
I have chosen to link the beautiful cover by Youtube artist Jason Chen and J Rice who do both a Mandarin/Chinese hybrid version and a full Mandarin version which is quite amazing as J Rice can not speak Mandarin but somehow learnt to sing it phonetically close to the mark.
The cover of the song is beautiful and the words to the song is quite inspiring if you read through it or the translated version for those who can't read Chinese (me included) and do not have Bing/Google Translate.
English/Chinese Hybrid Version
Chinese Version
Youtube
Shaytards
I like watching the Shaytards channel on youtube where ShayCarl and his wife Katilette vlogs their lives with the 4 children and often their family. What makes it inspiring to watch is that in every video, they live a very happy family life for which I feel is missing generally missing in society where you treat every family member as a friend and that as a family you go out and have fun together.
Their channel can be found at http://www.youtube.com/user/shaytards?blend=1&ob=4
I addition I have chosen 2 videos which show some examples of their happy family life. The first video 'Stop Being Depressed' has the Shaytards hanging up the beautiful artwork 'Happiness is a Choice'. Towards the end of the video Shay explains some of the reasoning behind the artwork and in life in general. That is you live a happy life and stay positive even with all the negativity around you. That is the happy yellow ball surrounded by all the sad blue balls.
I recently purchased a 11" x 17" print of the artwork 'Happiness is a Choice' by Darren Rae to help inspire myself which can be purchase at http://www.freewebstore.org/RAEART-PAINTINGS/1122X1722+Happiness+is+a+Choice+-+PRINT/index.aspx?pageid=510816&prodid=1872969&rw=1
Stop Being Depressed
The second video entitled 'We're Debt Free' is where Shay calls American talk show host Dave Ramsey to tell his story of how he changed his life from doing many dead-end jobs, barely struggling and getting into debt to substantially increasing his income and doing what he loves as a Youtuber and getting out of debt.
We're Debt Free
Famous Failures
This video entitled 'Famous Failures' is about famous and successful people who in their early life had failed in life but turned their lives around and turned failure into success.
Movies
The list below are some of my favourite movies although not extensive which are inspirational. Although the theme is all the same where the antagonist starts the film as being down and out and has to overcome many difficult challenges thrown upon them but they turn their lives around by pure effort and thinking positively and with a little bit of luck. This is a theme that I think someone can take into real life.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946) starring James Stewart
- The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) starring Will Smith
- Rocky (1976) starring Sylvester Stallone
- The Karate Kid (1984) starring Ralph Macchio
- Dead Poets Society (1989) starring Robin Williams
- Forrest Gump (1994) starring Tom Hanks
- Remember the Titans (2000) starring Denzel Washington
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