Moral Fibre.

It's funny how meaning works. Sometimes we find it in the last places we'd thought it would be. One such place i found meaning was in the movie "The Girl Next Door". Now i know what you're thinking, what meaning could you get from a seemingly typical teen movie about a boy coming of age and falling in love with the porn star that moves in next door.

Well there is this speech that the protagonist gives as part of his application for a scholarship. But this is no ordinary speech, not only is it a speech he gave whilst on ecstasy, but it is one that has stuck with a friend and i for many years.

"it's about finding that one thing that you really care about
that one special thing that means more to you than anything else in the world
and when you find her, you fight for her
you risk it all, you put her in front of everything
your future, your life, all of it
and maybe the stuff you do to help her isn't so clean
but you know what, it doesn't matter
cause in your heart you know
that the juice is worth the squeeze
that's what moral fibre is all about".