So recently I went to see Revolutionary Road and it was quite a little bit mind-blowing. For me, all that I can think of relationships is that I haven't always had the best luck but I am so hopeful for something genuine in the future. I don't want to see a movie which is perfect; who is perfect anyway? It is unsettling to compare oneself to the characters on the screen who just seem to have it all together. But this movie--this is real. So real that I left the movie stunned. The "heroine" goes through so much just so she can fulfill some dream which she uses as a substitute for reality. She seems to have so much around her and in lieu of appreciating it she throws it all away. I felt connected to the way she tried so hard to find something--anything--to fill the void and make everything good again, when once their was strife and obvious, if not overt, unhappiness. We're often quick to try to put a band-aid on something and hope that a brand new limb will grow in the place of the boiler or severed arm or what have you.
The sadness made me think of how much we undervalue the currents running through our lives. Perhaps we cannot always be amazingly happy, but we can be honest. We can see that their is possibility for something amazing in almost any step you take. It just matters how you care for it and how you are therefore cared for.
Love will save us. Life cannot provide enough obstacles or distractions to keep us unreal forever.
The sadness made me think of how much we undervalue the currents running through our lives. Perhaps we cannot always be amazingly happy, but we can be honest. We can see that their is possibility for something amazing in almost any step you take. It just matters how you care for it and how you are therefore cared for.
Love will save us. Life cannot provide enough obstacles or distractions to keep us unreal forever.
