For the past month or so, I’ve been addicted to perhaps one of the best television dramas ever created: Breaking Bad. I’ve read about the show’s well-deserved high praises since it started a couple of years ago but I never bought into the hype. In case you don’t know about the premise or maybe you’ve never even heard about the show, it’s about a borish, middle-aged high school chemistry teacher, Walter White (played perfectly by Bryan Cranston who played the dad in Malcolm in the Middle), who after learning he has lung cancer turns to a life of crime by cooking meth in order to help support his family and pay for his very expensive cancer treatment. I finally cracked and decided to watch the first episode to see what it’s like. Since then, I’ve watched the first two seasons in a matter of a week!
It was mid-way through the first season when I began to realize how similar this blog was to Walter White. Both were going through their boring, routine lives when a life-changing situation forced them to go down a different path in life. Overly dramatic comparison for a blog, I know. But it is true nevertheless.
Like Walter White, I decided to take MAT down a different path. One which I am more comfortable with. Being a writer, MAT will be more about my writing career and work. I felt a sense of relief after making this decision. While I do enjoy writing about personal development, goal setting and such, it felt like I was banging my head against the wall. I was banging out what I thought were pretty good articles yet they were not getting the visits I felt they warranted.
So instead of continuing down that path, watching Breaking Bad showed me there was a choice. So thank you, Walter White, for being the inspiration behind this new and better direction. One which I assume will not put me in the position of being stuck in some isolated shack with a crazed drug lord who is prone to bloody violence when high on meth.
By the way, you owe it to yourself to watching Breaking Bad. Who knows what it may change in your life.
