Mood: Appreciative
Music: Clarity by John Mayer
Quoted from American Beauty (1999)
[While watching a plastic bag blow around in the wind on a video]
Ricky Fitts: It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that's the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... and I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
Ricky Fitts: I was filming this dead bird.
Angela Hayes: Why?
Ricky Fitts: Because it's beautiful.
Don't you wish you could look at a dead bird and see beauty?
Yeah, I'm not being insensitive but I don't think I've matured to the extent that I can reach 'deep' enough within me to find beauty in what we call 'trash' and 'dead animals'. But this film is inspiring on so many levels. So I don't have the maturity of a 60 year old but I can see the good in American Beauty. Mind you, I haven't seen the film in ages (being months) but I happened to remember the plastic bag scene today. Sometimes I struggle to see the good left in this world because I tend to dwell on all the cons, with all the crime and whatnot. Even petty things like having a bad hair day. Woe is me! But today I feel okay, I feel that life is worth living and that there is good in me and there is good in you. There is good in everyone and everything. Guess that's where they got that 'silver lining' quote from.
Just wanted to share my 'life's okay' mood with you, before I change my mind and hate my toenails or something. Also posted as an indication that I haven't abandoned my blog as yet!
I don't know what the lesson is today. So I'll share a cliche:
Music: Clarity by John Mayer
Quoted from American Beauty (1999)
[While watching a plastic bag blow around in the wind on a video]
Ricky Fitts: It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that's the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... and I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
Ricky Fitts: I was filming this dead bird.
Angela Hayes: Why?
Ricky Fitts: Because it's beautiful.
Don't you wish you could look at a dead bird and see beauty?
Yeah, I'm not being insensitive but I don't think I've matured to the extent that I can reach 'deep' enough within me to find beauty in what we call 'trash' and 'dead animals'. But this film is inspiring on so many levels. So I don't have the maturity of a 60 year old but I can see the good in American Beauty. Mind you, I haven't seen the film in ages (being months) but I happened to remember the plastic bag scene today. Sometimes I struggle to see the good left in this world because I tend to dwell on all the cons, with all the crime and whatnot. Even petty things like having a bad hair day. Woe is me! But today I feel okay, I feel that life is worth living and that there is good in me and there is good in you. There is good in everyone and everything. Guess that's where they got that 'silver lining' quote from.
Just wanted to share my 'life's okay' mood with you, before I change my mind and hate my toenails or something. Also posted as an indication that I haven't abandoned my blog as yet!
I don't know what the lesson is today. So I'll share a cliche:
If you see someone not smiling, give them yours :)
You know I love you,
xoxo
