Greenlights
- Aug 19, 2021
- 1 min read
★★★★★
Goddamn, Matthew McConaughey is funny. And thoughtful. No conventional memoir, Greenlights is, of course, filled with plenty of stories from his past, some hard, some tragic, many hilarious, all with a lens towards finding the lesson within. If you like McConaughey as an actor and, inasmuch as any of us can who don’t actually know him, as a person, you will love Greenlights. If you don’t, I suppose you’ll neither be reading these words nor those in his book. And that’s a shame.
As the saying goes, I laughed, I cried (truly) … I learned a lot about McConaughey the man, not just McConaughey the actor: a reflective, restless, striving, spirited, true, and fearless seeker on a constant journey of improvement and fulfillment—with himself, with his family, in his work, in his life. More importantly, I learned a lot about myself: when I’ve succeeded, when I’ve failed, when I’ve been fearful, when I’ve been brave, when I’ve committed, when I’ve equivocated, when I’ve been myself, when I’ve been lost, when I’ve been the best version of me, when I’ve been unrecognizable to myself, when I’ve adapted, pivoted, gotten relative, and turned my own yellow and red lights into greenlights, and when I haven’t. Look back to look forward. Look within to look without. Live, learn, grow, repeat. Above all, just keep livin.
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