Happiness
THERE IS A DINGY LITTLE THEATER IN SPANISH FORK next to the Kmart where you can watch whatever big hit is currently in the box office, without the noise and cluster of the typical movie-going crowd. This was where Ashley and I could be found last night, watching Eat Pray Love with a bag of popcorn wedged between us, two full drinks and an empty theater.
Just us.
Ash and Aub against the world.
We’d heard bad reviews about Eat Pray Love – how people are unhappy because there’s no plot twists in the story, how long it is, how it is ‘unrealistic’ because really? Who ever has enough money and resources to give up everything and fly to Rome, India and Bali for a year to “find themselves”? Nobody. Quotes and stories and songs drone on and on about the brevity of the time we have here. Life is short. Time flies. There aren’t enough hours in the day. Don’t blink or you’ll miss it.
But if time is so brief, and there is so much to do, how can we find the time to find ourselves? Does our identity change as we let others into our lives? Is it really ‘compromising ourself’ or can it be a good thing?
Those answers are different for everyone.
For me?
Finding myself means letting myself enjoy the moment in that theater – with the faulty screen and the scratchy audio and the broken chair, sitting next to someone I love, who has been there for me as I find myself, lose myself, and find myself again.
Nothing is static.
Nothing is what it appears.
Nothing is just one thing, but a mixture of different hues – like a field. It’s green, yes. But if you look closer, you’ll notice there are shades of blue and brown and green and yellow and every other color mixed within and throughout.
Life is beautiful.
Enjoy it.
your words honestly have the ability to make me tear up.
so beautiful. & so honest.
thank you for the sweet (& dead-on) comment you left me yesterday!
Okay, I love your post. BUT I haven’t seen the movie yet. I have, however read the book and I think it is very good to know that. She had the money to randomly take the trip (in real life) because she was paid before the trip, promising her publisher that she would write a book about her journey. I wish they had put that into the movie. That is a KEY POINT. ughghg sorry it buggs that people don’t like something, when they don’t know everything. I’m glad you got the most of it!
Yea that’s the sad thing about movies is they tend to cut some important details out in favor of the details that will do better with the crowd. I was just surprised that they didn’t show that at all. It was weird. Maybe they alluded to it and I just missed it. I’ve been wanting to read the book and I’m glad the movie made me more interested in it. I do like the concept of packing up and going, simplifying and learning who you are, and working on being a better person.
Is it bad that I have never even heard of that book or movie? I am lame.