Midnight in Paris

I haven’t written in a while. OD reminded me that I’ve upgraded to OD plus almost a year ago. I like it here and therefore I have directly renewed my subscription. I like it here and I should logically speaking spend more time here. It is difficult sometimes to do what you want to do. It seems easy. Naturally, you have to make sure that you have an income. Further, you have to eat and you have to clean. These things do not come naturally for me. I have to force myself to do it. I have to remind myself not to skip meals. 45 kilos and 1 metre 84 is not good. I should weigh 20 kilos more. Next to the things I have to do there is the things that I do not have to do. Watching television all day. High school Musical 2. I was mindlessly clicking the remote (which I don’t want to do) and came upon this movie. Some would find it entertaining, but it is not for me. Why then did I watch it? You want to know how it ends? I could have been reading a good book.

It is very warm outside. It is 25 degrees in the middle of the knight. Hormones are surging. The heat is not good for my breathing, but you can’t complain about everything. Have I told you I own a cat now? I had to purchase litter box filler today. I cleaned his box and the hallway, kitchen and shower. I had checked the tv guide and knew that a good movie was coming on at 8.30 I was already fed up by watching too much tv and almost decided to turn it off. That would have been ironic. Watching things I don’t want to watch and then not watching something I do want to watch. I decided to keep the television on and see if I liked it. And I did.

Midnight in Paris is the new Woody Allen movie. A writer goes on holiday to Paris with his fiancee. Paris of the 1920s with people as Fitzgerald, Stein, Hemmingway, Picasso. At midnight a gets picked up by an old fashioned cab and gets transported to that dream world. Here he meets these people and discusses literature. As he talks with these people he starts to question the choices he has made and the choices he is about to make. A falls in love with another woman. And he discovers that he wants to stay in Paris. The period one lives in is full of uncertainty and that may be a reason for longing for the past. The ‘golden age’. For the girl in the 1920s this golden age is the 1890s. For people in the 1890s the golden age is the Renaissance and so on. In the end he decides to stay in Paris and breaking with his fiancee. He decides to do what he wants to do. The message in this movie is obvious, it is simple. It isn’t easy.

Afterwards I went for a summer evening walk. Clear my mind. Then I put on some classical music and went writing here.