Problems/Perspective

Oh, the assortment of things I could write about at the moment. About a million things in the political arena. Earth Day, which was yesterday. Heck, I even figured out why America will never again be a free country as I was driving yesterday.

But last night I had a bit of a much-welcomed reprieve from it all. Three plus hours of not thinking about one single thing that brings me down or pisses me off. Thank you Hollywood for doing something right for once.

After grilling up some steaks that cost about as much as gold and taking about an hour-and-a-half long soak in the whirlpool bathtub to ease some of the soreness from work, Allie and I ran to the video store. Usually it takes us forever when we go there since she is now on an “I only really like comedies” kick, and I’m not the biggest fan of those. But last night we got there 10 minutes before closing and thus had to speed up our process a teensy bit.

In under five minutes we were in, and were walking out with a bucket of popcorn and four DVDs in hand, as well as the one penny I received as change which I was nice enough to drop on the sidewalk an effort to make some kid’s day when they find it.

We watched Dan In Real Life and Juno last night. Both are movies I normally wouldn’t think that I’d like and yet they both had something in them that made me glad I watched them. Perhaps it’s the fact that things always turn out right and happy at the end. Perhaps it’s the fact that the problems faced by the characters were solved within an hour or so, unlike those in real life. Maybe it was just the fact that the characters were normal, good people that were somewhat funny-the kind of people I’d like to spend my days with instead of some of the other kinds of people I run into.

I think the biggest thing though is that they, for whatever reason, stuck a little sliver of hope in me that the future isn’t certain and sometimes things do work out good. It may not actually end up that way, but at least I kinda hope so.

I have a whole list of things I’ve been meaning to write about for weeks, some of which were started and not finished, but for now those can be put on hold. I know they’ll still be waiting the next time I get around to writing something. But for now I think I’d rather just pause and bask in the afterglow before I have to go to work this afternoon and once again face real-life and all that comes with it. I’d much rather live in hopeful fiction for just a little while longer.

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“So break me down if it makes you feel right
And hate me now if it keeps you alright
You can break me down if it takes all your might
’cause I’m so much more than meets the eye
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And I’m the one you can never trust
’cause wounds are ways to reveal us
And yeah I could have tried and devoted my life to both of us
But what a waste of my time when the world we have is yours
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So break me down if it makes you feel right
And hate me now if it keeps you alright
You can break me down if it takes all your might
’cause I’m so much more than all your lies
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