In my previous message, I discussed two leading presidential candidates from the US who are currently busy dominating most news cycles. This one, however; discusses two A-list movie stars from India who aren’t exactly dominating news cycles anywhere (at the moment). Mostly because one of them’s already met their maker; whereas the other one doesn’t have any major movie releases lined up at this time. So unless their names somehow pop up in the Epstein flight logs or something, chances are that most of you will never ever know of their existence even. And since that’s the case anyways, I’ll just refer to these ones as ‘A’ and ‘B’ hereafter (within this article).
Actor A. Was almost 80 when he died (around a decade or so back). Was one of the leading filmstars in his heyday. Extremely good looking, handsome, and charismatic. But he didn’t just stop at that. The man continued to act well into his old age, delivering stellar performances, one after the other. But even Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks and Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse and Jerry Seinfeld is doing all of that, you’d say. Except that with this guy, it gets way, way nicer.
This guy – who wasn’t even a Boomer; but instead, a member of the (early!) SILENT GENERATION – was a goddamned TECHIE. Not only did he learn and master COMPUTERS at the youthful age of SEVENTY SIX YEARS, but also did he play a key role in bringing widespread INTERNET ACCESS to his country! And it doesn’t even stop there! This old (former) superstar THEN went on to set up a literal ASSOCIATION OF ETHICAL HACKERS, because why even not?
In a day and age when you see swathes of both financially well-off (as well as otherwise privileged) folks from leading First World countries – right from the Boomers to the Gen Z’s – make endless excuses for not knowing how to do a simple Google search; this EARLY Silent Generation fella was busy leading entire hackathons and shit in fucking 2007. That’s a full SEVENTEEN years ago, just so you know.
“Oh, but he was super duper uber RICH!”
So were the rest of his A-lister peers. But they’d all retired for good by then. Also, there was absolutely nothing more left for this guy to do or “achieve” in his life. Money, fame, superstardom; he’d seen it all. Dude didn’t (technically) need another friggin’ thing.
And yet, dude kept his spark alive. His very soul well-fed. His innate youthfulness and his hunger to learn and grow and expand limitlessly untouched. All sans that adrenochrome drip (just so you know).
Meanwhile, the rest of his A-lister peers were all out of sight, out of mind (and rapidly out of world too) post their sweet little stints in the sun.
It’s like they were all gone well before the reaper even got to them. No wonder your average reaper loses out on his yearly appraisals so very often; to speak nothing of their (brutally murdered) performance bonuses!
Choices DO indeed MATTER.
Enter Actor B. For those moderately aware of some of the goings-on within the Indian movie industry; said “name” itself should be something of a giveaway. Anyways, dude’s EIGHTY ONE YEARS “OLD” right now. Was an A-lister when he started; and, believe it or not; is an A-lister actor even today. TODAY. At the ripe young age of EIGHTY FUCKING ONE. Still fit and fine. Still pushing himself to innovate. Still doing roles that even a lot of young, fit, and incredibly talented actors would think a minimum of ten times before even as much as attempting. Still raising the bar with every single film release of his.
In one of his most recent films, this old literal GRANDPA sat SILENTLY for FOUR LONG HOURS every single DAY to put on prosthetic makeup; then acted (brilliantly, if I may add); then AGAIN SPENT a couple more hours in REMOVING said makeup! And all of it without even breaking as much as a drop of sweat!
To reiterate; this one’s a literal BILLIONAIRE dude who’s seen and done pretty much everything in his life (and then some more). He’s seen the very peak of superstardom, adulation, people literally worshipping him (even today); and still maintains a passionately committed relationship with his side-chick (in addition to the one with his legal wife); all at EIGHTY FUCKING ONE YEARS “OLD”.
Credit where credit’s due.
Meanwhile, the rest of his superstar peers are currently rolling in their very graves. I mean, incinerated (being Hindus and whatnot).
And finally, a non-superstar example (and another non-superstar example and ANOTHER non-superstar example and YET ANOTHER non-superstar example) to close things; because I know for a FACT that many will outright REFUSE to see past the “But famous celeb sooooo RICH!!!11!1!” and “But rich celeb soooo RESOURCEFUL!1!!11!” and all of that jazz.
And how do I know that?
Because I’m ̶b̶a̶s̶i̶c̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶N̶o̶s̶t̶r̶a̶d̶a̶m̶u̶s̶ BATMAN.
(No, literally. Ever seen ol’ Bruce and Me in the same room?)
(I thought not.)
Issued in public interest by Don Spectacularis of the Cosmic Spectacularis Supersensory.
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What a load of shite
You writing makes you sound thick as shit
Thank you for your concerns.