Keanu - A Cure for our Rage

Read this interview of (my soul tie forever crush) Keanu the other day, and it just kinda resonated with me why this man means so much to me even though I've never met him. A few things hit me about him. and I had to relate it to me and my current status.

1. The interviewer kept fishing for information from him. About certain aspects about him. He replied blankly, "No I am not a buddhist if that’s what you’re asking." It just reminded me of my multiple “Are you a Nigerian?", questions, or non questions. And then the interviewer made it worse by trying to fish for information about the people that mattered in his life, people that he would lay his life down for, and he also shut that down. "Family and friends and friends that become like family." Also, reminding me how inquisitive and overly curious these Nigerian folk can be all up in your business…my man just shut that down. Family and friends. No names need to be recited. 

2. Then, when asked about his anger. He responded, "I haven’t really been that angry in a long time." That made me pause. It made me pause, exhale, and take a lot of deep breathes. You, Mr. John Wick. You do not get angry?? 

I am angry all the time. Like all the time. I stay away from people cos I don’t want them to make me angry and I see Keanu throw knives at people in a knife shop and shoot people in the head, and it somehow alleviates me of my anger, at least a little bit. On the other hand, here he is, the actor, and he doesn't even get angry. Like Sandra Bullock said, in one of my favorite lines in the hit movie, Crash, "I am angry all the time and I don’t know why." And that succinctly described me. So many facets of life incite your anger? 

Did they take too long with the set up for the scenes? Did your flight get unnecessarily delayed? Did your car start? Or in my case has my Mini Cooper that's been parked in a still position for about a year suddenly just develop a fault? These are just a multitude of stupid scenarios that have left me infuriated but oh well...It is either he doesn't have to deal these problems, or he responds to them differently...calmly. I'd prefer to choose the latter and hope to be the latter. 

But I suppose, that's Keanu, the cool breeze over the mountains, the still chillness over our tempered rage.