After reminiscing about past days with a friend from what I’d like to call The Blockbuster Years, and also talking to my boy Albert, I came to a realization that I have made the right decisions thus far in my life.

Big Willie (Wilfredo) reminded me of how things were at The Block as Georgie used to call it. He reminded me of the nasty chick who used to chase me around that place. And I remembered when her nasty friend suggested that Eddy and I go to a hotel with them. Until I reminded them that they were much too skanky as well as too young, they really thought it was going to happen. I told Big Willie that we should have a Blockbuster reunion, but half the people will probably be unreachable. Maybe Eddy, Albert, Anthony, and I will just go to Vegas to hang with Big Will.

Albert told me that he feels as if he’s not going places. He says that his goal while he was young was to make films. And now, he’s not doing it. He was telling me that he wants to go back to film school and reach his goals. Once he said he was going to sell his car, I knew he was not joking. Back in the day when we were at The Block Albert and I kidded that we should go to Hollywood and do odd jobs while we just wrote scripts and we wanted to become the Asian Ben and Matt. But that was also before I became married and had children. Of course, as many dreams, it never materialized, but now, Albert is trying to make it happen. I commend him for that because he’s shooting for the stars. He’s working at a great company, with great stock, where he is making more money than ever, but he’s still unhappy. He could rest on his laurals and do fine, but his happiness is more important.

What about me? My ulimate goal in life has always been to have a family as soon as possible. At the age of 23, part of that goal was accomplished when Carol and I had Brian. And when Carol and I got married, the other part of that goal was accomplished. So while I’m not going to go to film school with Albert, I don’t need it to feel happy. I’m already happy. And I consider myself lucky.

But just because I’m not going to film school, doesn’t mean that Al and I can’t be the Asian Matt and Ben. In fact, I have many ideas for a movie script based on those years working at Blockbuster Video. Titles I’m throwing out include Blockbusted as well as The Block. Man those days were hilarious.

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