Life Under the SunEcclesiastes 1

Ecclesiastes 1


For those who haven't yet seen the movie, about Schmidt, I am about to render seeing that movie a useless and vain exercise.
For Jack Nicholson plays a man just retired. He has risen to be the vice president of his insurance company, and now watches the clock tick down to 5pm, and leaves his office soon after.
His office is all packed up with boxes of files.
At his retirement speech, his replacement is chosen to give the speech.
He is a young upstart who thanks him for his work and help in getting him settled, but then the upstart quickly goes on to speak about himself and how he is settling in to the job at hand.
Schmidt then returns to the office to see if there are any questions the upstart has for him after serving the company for 40 years. The upstart says No, Schmidt had provided good information on the handover to the upstart. And then he says
Look, at the time, can you ride down the elevator with me.
Schmidt is now shunted to the side. And as h...