"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." Thank you Epictetus. You have provided myself and all watchers of the movie Serendipity a way of verbalising what we may not have known about ourselves. It's ok to be different, it's ok to be you. Because really, who are you going to be if not you? And once you stop worrying about what others think of you, the possibilities are endless. I found my freedom in grade nine and haven't looked back much since. And with my divorce it seems things have been thrown into hyper drive on being "foolish and stupid"...just saying.
Ok....check this video out, and once you have dried your eyes you can come back:
http://30-years.dailymegabyte.com/ex-lovers-meet-each-other-after-30-years/
That, that right there, is simply amazing. No words, just a connection that has waited 30 plus years to be re-established. A moment in time where the rawness of emotion comes rocketing to the surface, there is no armour, there is only sweet pain. And at the risk of sounding sappy, that's what it is all about for me now. Take hold of what I have in me now and I will let myself go for you. It's that simple. No pretension, no fear and no turning back. How did that guy not cry his eyes out?
"Donde hay amor, hay dolor" Where there is love, there is pain. Think about that for a moment. The ups and downs of our relationships, all of them, are fraught with ultimate highs and painful lows at various points in the life of them. It can be hard. Life can be hard. But at the end of the day what we take away and choose to focus on is what will define us over the course of our lives.
More to the point, how we perceive the world and how it perceives us is based on all of our experiences to that point. It is easy to fall into the belief that the world sucks, for a lot of the time it does, but there is also so much to be in awe of...if we allow it to show itself to us. If we choose to step away from the darkness and into the light - "Darkness has a hunger that is insatiable and lightness has a call that's hard to hear." Take from that lyric what you will. Satan and his merry men against Jesus and the magnificent twelve - fill your boots. I like it for its humanistic message. We choose everyday how we will find the day. What do you choose? Wanna take a guess at my choice....hint, read the title.
This really short post is really about that video....the emotions it stirred in me. The memories of things said and unsaid. And since this is my blog and you're not the boss of me, I get to write whatever I want...ha!
Much love and peace to you all
Ciao
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