It's a lazy Saturday and I'm watching one of my favorite holiday movies, The Family Man, starring Nicholas Cage who plays the part of Jack Campbell, a hot-shot Wall Street trader who after a late-night robbery finds himself waking up in a much more domesticated existence next to his high school sweetheart played by the "I can't put my finger why she's so hot" Tea Leoni. Jack's alternate life is what would have been if he had chosen to stay in his small home-town after college instead of taking a lucrative finance internship in London.
Working as a salesman at Big Ed's Tires and being the poop picker-upper for his little baby and mutt is a stark change from his penthouse apartment, Italian sports car, and lovely escort girlfriend. Jack struggles with the whole common family man existence but as Hollywood movies go, ends up loving the family and life that he would have had, and misses it once its gone.
The question dear reader, is which life would you choose if you had the choice? A superficial one of luxury filled with all the wonderful trappings of wealth or a more wholesome lot with a loving wife, cute little kids, great friends, but having to settle for a Zeena suit instead of a Zegna suit and a minivan instead of a Ferrari.
As a 31-year old guy who's deathly afraid of relationships, let alone marriage and a family, works in M&A, and drives a Porsche, I think you know where I stand. But I have so many guy friends who are husbands and dads, and swear up and down that the whole family thing truly does have it's rewards. They may be telling the truth, but I suspect they're believers in that whole misery loves company thing.
So, which life would you choose?
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