Shia LaBeouf has ‘a meaningless life’

Posted on 15. Jun, 2009 by Mike in Interviews

I’ve learning an awful lot lately. I stopped trying so hard to learn about business and money and started paying more attention to people, their actions and relationships.

“Shia LaBeouf has a meaningless life” was a headline that caught my eye on an online new headline.

If you don’t know who Mr. LaBeouf is, let me bring you up to speed. Shia is a young actor who has appeared in movies like Transformers, Eagle Eye, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Disturbia and many others.

I found it interesting and mildly disturbing that Shia would find his life ‘meaningless’. Be forewarned, I’m not about to go off on some “movie stars have it so great and don’t know how lucky they are” tirade. I find it disturbing because I thought:

A) I really hope he’s not feeling meaningless enough to end his life.
B) What does his life lack that would make it have meaning?
C) If I were to be standing face to face with Shia, could I teach him the things I’VE learned and would that have a profound enough impact to allow whim to see meaning in his life
D) What makes a persons life have meaning?

Pretty deep stuff for a Sunday evening blog post on a blog that is geared toward Internet Marketing right?

Since this is a blog that very few people read, I’m sure Shia LaBeouf will never make it here to read this but if he happens to, I ask this? Shia, what are you missing that is making your life lack meaning? What do you have in our life that gives you joy and is rewarding?

I mean, here I am…a child of the recession so to speak (job eaten up by the recession, two babies to feed, mortgage to pay, wife to keep happy etc) and I’m only 35 years old. Shia might think I’m an old fart since I was already getting pubes when he came into the world, but here’s the thing….

EVERYTHING has the meaning that you give it! I REALLY and I mean REALLY REALLY believe this. I never used to but it has caught on.

I wanted to be an actor for a while. People told me I was funny and was a “character” so I went to some auditions, got passed over and moved on. I could have written my life off at that point as being “meaningless” but instead I went on to other things.

In those “other things” I found ways that I could add value to other peoples lives and I think that is part of what Shia LaBeouf is lacking.

Shia has money, he has fame, in many ways he kind of has the world by the short and curlies and just doesn’t know it. The part that he’s lacking is WAY more huge than any amount of money, houses, cars or acting career could EVER replace though and that’s VALUE.

My next question to Shia would be “do you see the value that you’re adding to the world?” followed by “do you think that others value what you’re giving to the world?”

If he couldn’t answer either of those or said no to the second question, it’s time to find something that Shia can do to add value.

See, I used to say that I didn’t care what other people thought of me. In some cases that’s still true as I live for my family and myself and not the whole population. BUT…we all care what others think about us to some degree and if Shia knew in his heart that he was adding true value to the lives of others, that feeling of “meaninglessness would disappear”

Shia, would you like to learn how to fix this easily? Have your agent call me/email me/Twitter me etc. or reach out yourself. You’ve got the keys, you just need to find out which one opens the door your face is pressed up against!

Mike