Great Folly and Clothing: What’s your Thought for the Day

Question and Thought for the Day March 24, 2025

Thought of the Day: “There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.” Miguel de Cervantes

Question of the Day:

What’s a article of clothing from a movie or TV show that you wish you could own?

We live in a world full of quiet despair. Not loud, dramatic, movie-worthy breakdowns—but the quiet kind. The kind that looks like scrolling in silence. Like a shrug when someone asks what you’re excited about. Like giving up on asking the question you really want to ask.

And Cervantes calls that what it is: folly.

Because hope might be fragile, but despair is foolish. Not because it’s fake or weak, but because it assumes the story is over. It closes the door that’s still cracked open. It turns off the lights while the movie’s still playing.

When things feel dark, we don’t need massive breakthroughs. We need tiny bright spots. A little spark of joy. A flicker of imagination. Even something as seemingly superficial as… clothes.

Yeah. Clothes.

Let’s talk about that jacket. That coat. That outfit you saw on-screen and thought—that’s me, if only I could pull it off.

We’ve all had that moment. Maybe it was:

• Indiana Jones’s leather jacket—rugged, adventurous, worn like a badge of honor.
• The yellow plaid power suit from Clueless—youthful, confident, unapologetically bold.
• Daenerys’ dragon-scale coat—regal, fierce, stitched with the weight of destiny.
• Tony Stark’s sharp suits—armor disguised as fashion, confidence in thread count.

But it’s not just about the clothing. It’s about what it represented.

We don’t want the jacket. We want what the jacket says. We want the strength. The freedom. The flair. The sense of I know who I am, and this is how I show up in the world.

Clothing in film and TV is symbolic. Every choice tells a story. Every color, every fabric, every accessory is saying something. And we, sitting on the couch or in the theater, soak it up and think: I want that feeling. I want that version of me.

And that desire—that daydream—is not despair. It’s not folly. It’s one of the most human things we can do: imagine a better version of ourselves and inch toward it, one idea at a time.

So today, I’m asking:

• What’s your dream screen outfit?
• And what do you think it says about who you want to be?

Because maybe it’s time to stop waiting for permission to become that version of ourselves. Maybe it starts with a question. Or a quote. Or a coat.

But it starts.

And as Cervantes would remind us—it sure as hell doesn’t start with despair.