In luv with "Up in the air" screenplay

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_in_the_Air_(film)

"This is where it gets a little difficult, but stay with me.
You have a new backpack... but this time, I want you to fill it with people.
Start with casual acquaintances, people around the office, friends of friends
and work your way to the people you trust with your most intimate secrets.
Now move into family members - cousins, aunts, and uncles. Get your sisters
and your brothers and your parents. Get them all in that backpack. And finally
your husband or wife or boyfriend or girlfriend. Get them in there too.

Don't worry. I'm not going to ask you to light it on fire.

Feel the weight of that bag. Make no mistake, your relationships are the
heaviest components of your life. Feel the straps cutting into your shoulders.
All those negotiations and arguments and secrets and compromises.

Now set that bag down. You don't need to carry all that weight.

Some animals were meant to carry each other. To live symbolically over a lifetime.
Star-crossed lovers. Monogamous swans. We are not one of those animals.

The slower we move, the faster we die.
We are not swans. We're sharks."

- Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) in "Up in the air"