Stranger than fiction

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We watched this movie at our Aspie group yesterday and I quite enjoyed it.
Obviously the main character Harold Crick has quite a few autistic traits, from the obsessive counting to the by-the-clock lifestyle, the almost savant mathematical feats to the lack of friends and social skills.

I'm pretty sure the leader picked it out specifically to teach us a lesson, though I'm not sure it was entirely successful.
Basically it's saying that you don't have to live your life by-the-book, that the interesting/meaningful/fulfilling things all happen when you break the rules for just a bit. (in this case having a 3 minute offset)

After watching the film we had a bit of a discussion, but the general consensus seemed to be that the others thought it rather a boring film and would rather have seen more of an action movie. I guess the concrete-thinking bit gets in the way of understanding the larger message in these things. We followed that by watching 'WhiteOut' which I actually found much more boring and predictable in comparison.

It's a bit ironic as I was only the day before contemplating trying to live my life the other way, in fact I just ordered a WatchMinder2 device that will hopefully be able to remind me what I have to do and keep me on the right track.

I suppose the difference is that depending on the ADD/Executive Function/anxiety issues we suffer from perhaps we need external aids to even bring our level of daily functionality up to an adequate level to maintain a consistent lifestyle, before we can even begin to consider living a larger life outside the box.

I don't know really, I wish it was that easy to escape every once in a while, but most of the time I seem to take so little responsibility for anything in my life that I would probably be better off with a rigid routine, as that somehow seems to be the only way for me to get anything done at all.

That watch is so awesome! It would be perfect for my new job and for basically every day life.
Now my life is very regular. That is way better than unpredictability coming from feelings of unrooted-ness. Of course, life is still quite unpredictable. How can one thing ever be one extreme or the other? Like, one cannot be 100% rigid (well they can, but it won't work out) because stuff changes. It's the second law of thermodynamics. Also, the opposite of the 2nd law is stuff moving into order, which also tends to happen. Often, when you think about it, when the action slows down enough for one to form some regularity. Like, when the temperature cools and water crystalizes.