{"id":1198,"date":"2016-10-13T06:55:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T06:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeatthemovies\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2016-11-22T05:00:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T05:00:48","slug":"ghostbusters-side-attractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeatthemovies\/2016\/10\/ghostbusters-side-attractions.html","title":{"rendered":"Ghostbusters side attractions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seemingly insignificant tasks can have a way of becoming useful, perhaps even the main thing.\u00a0Take the reboot of Ghostbusters<\/em> (2016).<\/p>\n

Not many would call Abby Yates mission to prove ghosts exist a real occupation. It may be funded research, but the odds of coming up with the goods appears remote. Aren\u2019t ghosts the figment of imaginations? Many would agree.<\/p>\n

Ghost hunting is a seemingly insignificant task. But who of us could say that we don\u2019t engage in what others may call useless occupations of time? Something we do doesn\u2019t make other people happy, but we believe in it and go on irrespectively, even if it may be a waste of time.<\/p>\n

But Abby gets a \u2018lucky break\u2019, the proof that ghosts exist.<\/p>\n

Useful<\/h4>\n

Then she gets an even luckier break: a ghostly apocalypse is coming where all sorts of apparitions are on display in visual dynamite. Dynamite being the imperative word; these ghosts are deadly.<\/p>\n

This is when Abby and her team become ghostbusters, or they bust up some ghosts, because the ghosts are up to no good in town.<\/p>\n

This is when a seemingly insignificant task, ghost hunting,comes in handy and turns into ghostbusting.<\/p>\n

Ghostbusters<\/em> reminds us that what seems an odd job can become useful, perhaps even the main thing. The ghosthunting foursome is about saving New York now.<\/p>\n

There are lessons in this: don\u2019t give up odd jobs, because someone is going to need it.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t give up the seemingly insignificant jobs, because someone is waiting for it to happen.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t give up on the small stuff if someone is dying for it.<\/p>\n

A small thing may be the lifeline that someone needs.<\/p>\n

The small stuff is underrated.<\/p>\n

The disregarded is underrated.<\/p>\n

The dumped is useful.<\/p>\n

It gets recycled.<\/p>\n

Never give up on what may become the best thing since sliced bread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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